Have watched so many of your videos over the last 2 weeks my wife recognized your voice.😂 Just bought my first radio 3 days ago and received my GMRS license yesterday. Thank you sir.
I just purchased a GMRS radio and the directions are so tiny that I would have to use a magnifying glass to read them. I've watched several UA-cam videos and they have been terrible in helping a brand new person learn to use a repeater. Your UA-cam presentation was superb, excellent! Thank you so much.
I thank you for your teachings. I will patiently await my certificate to hang on my refrigerator so that I may prove to my family that I am not a loser.
Thank you! Absolutely loved your instructions. I will now stop looking at my new GMRS radio, stroking it and marveling at it and I will now USE it!! Thanks again.
My new BTech GMRS Pro radio is scheduled to be delivered today. Thank you for sharing your review on it-and I’m glad it was favorable. I’m admittedly a newbie in the HT world, and find much value from your experience. I’m sure I’ll make far fewer newbie mistakes by learning from you. Fun Fact: On your TekMat explosion cleaning mat, it lists a few shotgun gauges, including “.410” bore. According to a Game & Fish Ranger back in the mid-70s during a presentation for teenagers, of which I was one, if a .410 caliber shotgun was converted to gauge, it would be a 67.6 gauge. It takes 12 lead balls the diameter of a 12 gauge barrel to equal 1 pound-hence 12 gauge. But since “67.6 gauge” doesn’t relate so well to the typical shotgun gauging convention, they went with .410 caliber.
As always, a useful and helpful video! One thing I have never understood, is the repeater owners who require a tone to access the repeater (actually a smart thing), but somehow lacked that extra thirty seconds it would have taken them to program that tone on the output so that end users can set their tone decoders (on receive) and keep noise and other stations from opening their squelch and annoying them while monitoring that repeater. Seriously? Then there are the owners who set their repeaters so that there is zero hang time. Hang time is that brief time after you, or anyone else using the repeater, unkeys their PTT and the repeater keeps transmitting. Most repeaters have 1 to 3 seconds of hang time. Hang time allows you to 1) know that you hit the repeater, and 2) judge about how strong the repeater is reaching your radio and relatively speaking, how you might be hitting the repeater. One well-known GMRS dealer I know of went to the trouble and expense of setting up a repeater. For reasons known only to them, they did not program it to encode a tone on the output. Worse still, they did not have any hang time at all on the repeater. People would drive into the area, try to use the repeater, and hear nothing. They either assumed they were not in range or that the repeater was down. I don't know if they were playing a stupid game with their end-users and customers or they just didn't know any better. I will say such sloppy programming would make me unlikely to buy a repeater from them or have them program a repeater for me.
I was already a GMRS Repeater expert before your training session as I had stayed at a HOLIDAY INN a few decades back and am certified expert in all fields now!
Thanks a ton for the info on the RX tone! I received access to a repeater and (before watching this very video), put the same tone in for TX and RX. I requested a repeater check and heard no reply. I have since de-confuckulated my programming error and now have crystal clear, 2-way capability of said repeater....!
Great video. Even after a year or so programming these I catch myself second guessing some of the things you covered. Thanks for the quick reference video.
Thank you so much for all the information you give to the gmrs community I'm new to this just bought my first gmrs mtx575 with the 3db shadow antenna wsek911 michigan
I stumble on you channel a few years ago and you explained how you setup your first repeater. You made it simply easy set one up pretty much like you first one out of KG 1000's works heart and I thank you for sharing you knowledge.
Thank you for this video!! I'm connected to a repeater!! YeeeHaw! All of your videos are super informative!! I'm now a legit Dork! Pretty cool stuff! Keep up the good work!!
We are the same age. 62 in July. Very cool. I have st purchased my license and waiting on the FCC to send me the call sign and then I'm going to order a radio. I will need to know how to connect to a repeater. We have a few about 50 miles from me and 40 miles in another direction. Open Repeaters are listed near me close enough I should be able to do so. Tha ks Randy.
My previous message was lost due to my slightly drunk state. I'm always enjoy your humour. I,m English and moved to the USA 20 years ago today! I met my wife on the internet. ANyhoo, she was holding a Boofwang, the rest is history.I am 60 and I love your channel. btw. hic @@TheNotaRubicon
I had a thought this morning that made me laugh. Your content should be download and archived in the event of an apocalypse. Imagine a class full of children being educated by your videos😂😂 the future world would be a much funnier place😂😂😂
Just received my first radio. As a kid Dad used to listen to a scanner and we had a CB out on the back porch. Did some time monkeying with radios in the Army too. Now looking forward to exploring the world of radio. I expect many sad dorks telling me to RTFM and "clear the freq noob"
Randy , since I have a UV-5R Ham radio. Like you said I'll go treat my self with a frosty Ice cone. Needless to say , I find your videos very interesting and educational. That I'll watch your video with a frosty treat and learn something new. Thank you and God Bless.
"Some people" need an app to read as they no longer can do anything without an app to do it for them, but you did your best Randy and that is all anyone can do in this age of stupidity! The age of stupidity is much like the "dark ages" of long ago, what goes around comes around.
This is great. I got baofeng ham and after watching you I have a couple of gmrs ones coming even got a lic. I’m gonna set em up. I’m in the valley doubt I’ll hit anything but will be good for when I’m out.
🤣🤣🤣🤣thx steve i have a radio that NAR says i'm wasting my time trying to program so i was leaving BUT, i saw your bashful complaint and though you weren't amusing the replies from the unbashful subscribed are hilarious SOOO! thx steve for the laughs i had, not from you but because of you thanks!!! Steve! I'm off now to rub my UV 5r on a body part so as to find a use for it!
Just to add confusion, the DCS tones are either 'N' *normal* or 'I' *Inverted*. I discovered on my Wouxon KG805G that only the 'I' tones are available in the radio menu. Enabling the use of the 'N' tones required using the factory software and a programming cable. Just FYI.
Our local GMRS repeater (in the West Ga. Area) is privately owned. And I think it states it is open for public use. I think he prefers users to join His Club, pay a hefty users fee! But I think this club owns multple repeaters, all linked up for an almost statewide system! So I do see why there is a hefty fee.
The local repeater group I'm a part of, has a linked repeater system, it reaches as far southwest as Florida. Not bad for a GMRS repeater. I have to pay $35 a year, but that's reasonable, I don't mind paying it to help maintain the repeater.
Another question for you if you dont mind. What is the difference between the Scan that you have by long pressing 1 on the keypad and the scan that you get with long pressing 3 on the Keypad, and what situation would you use each of those for?
I'm in NorCal - I am confukulated with the repeaters and their duplicated channels? I get the FARS, but as you are moving, and your channels are pre-set, how do you utilize the duplicated 462.550 for NorCal, and then in SoCal? Chirp list has FRS first, then GMRS, then GMRS-550/15R - Trying to set a multitude of family gmrs radios.
I miss hearing the roger beep at the end of your videos. I’m sending you $5.00 as a token licensing fee for my continued reuse of the word conf¥ckulation.
Thanks for the video, def it helps. Im trying to set up GMRS repeater on Baofeng uv 5G, local repeater info 462.725 MHz Frequency 241.8 Hz Input Tone 192.8 Hz Output Tone Could you do video on the set up for this, on a UV 5G. I am almost there I think. Im getting the. " kick back " when I key the mike, but verbal is not coming through. I think offset is wrong maybe ?
I am unsad but I do find it difficult to find the transmit tones different repeaters use. Many seem to keep it secret and/or not published at least for the few repeaters in the Milwaukee area.
Question. I have the Midland mxt275 and can not transmit onto a repeater. I turned repeater mode on and put in the right Ctss , etc. I still can't transmit. I can hear others though. Am i screwing up or does the Midland mxt275 not transmit to repeaters? Thank you for the time if read this
Yes, the midland transmits to transmitters.. CONFIRM you are in repeater mode CONFIRM you are on the right repeater channel CONFIRM you have the correct tone, set as the TRANSMIT tone CONFIRM you are within range of the repeater CONFIRM it is actually the repeater you are hearing and not just people talking on simplex IF everything is confirmed, then either your radio is defective, or you did something wrong. and I doubt the radio is defective.
I have learned a lot from your videos and I thank you for your service. However I have a question about radio selection? You said that you must have a GMRS radio to be able to program in a repeater. I have a Radioddity GS-5B and a Radtel RT470 both radios have the tone settings that you speak of. If I cannot use these radios on a GMRS repeater. Then why can they be programmed to use on a GMRS repeater?
You need a GMRS radio to use a GMRS repeater without breaking the FCC rules. Ham radios use ham repeaters and most will not transmit to GMRS repeaters, but those that do would break the rules.
I printed my certificate and put it in the passenger window of my Buick. That way, when I park sideways at Walmart and take up two handicapped spots, people can see it more clearly and they will respect me.
Hi, quick question understanding the radio already has set programmed GMRS, FRS, RPT and DIY. I'm attempting to set additional repeaters do I need to change both the CTCSS and TXTCS codes to hear and communicate on those channels for the UV15 GMRS radio. I was able to hear communication between others on certain channels frequencies but could not get a radio check from anyone. Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
To transmit on a repeater you must use the correct repeater-channel (different from normal channels), you must have the correct transmit tone for the repeater programmed on that channel and you must be within range of the repeater - just because you can hear the repeater does not mean your radio can reach it. The RECEIVE tone is optional, and as a beginner you should leave it off.
@@TheNotaRubicon so example 462.725 MHz Frequency 136.5 Hz Input Tone 136.5 Hz Output Tone So would set CTCSS & RTCSS onto radio to enable contact via repeater? Same if 462.550 MHz Frequency 503 DPL Input Tone 503 DPL Output Tone. If so thanks & apologies as hopefully want to establish communication with someone out there.
Hello i dont know what im doing wrong your video is very clear in how to program a repeater...i still can mine to connect..pls help..i have a baofeng GMRS-9R with 1-8 repeatable channels
1) make sure you are on the correct repeater channel 2) make sure you have entered the correct TRANSMIT tone/code 3) to reduce issues/variables, REMOVE the RECEIVE/RX tone/code - this is optional and can cause problems if you do it wrong 4) make sure you are IN RANGE of the repeater & transmit ..if you do all those things right, and still cannot connect, then either you are doing it wrong or your radio is defective.. and I doubt your radio is defective.
QUESTION...on my gmrs I have the tones for a particular channel. On repeater book, tgat same gmrs channel has the tone and seems to have an offset freq. Do gmrs repeaters use or need offsets???
GMRS always has a built-in/automatic offset of +5Mhz for a repeater. on a real GMRS radio you just have to figure out which repeater channel it is based on the frequency and then enter the tone.
I'm not one of them Jason!just trying to understand the whole picture! I have the btech gmrs V2 Channels 15-22-repeater Channels- then you say I believe! Channels 23 through 30 repeater channels as well (concerning tone SETTINGS) Looking for Repeaters! A little confused my friend! *can you help me out with this problem my friend? *I do have a gmrs license wrqy733 Ps- I did try to find a school here in Boston Massachusetts to learn with hands on! I could learn this much, much! Faster!! But had no luck at all, Jason!! *well , Thanks For Listening, My Friend!!
Channels 23-30 are the repeater channels that you use when using/transmitting on a repeater. Channels 15-22 are SHARED with the repeater channels - Watch this video for more details: -- > ua-cam.com/video/3PBZYCjNAoc/v-deo.html PS: Nobody cares that you have your GMRS license, and no need to ever post it online.
I filled the condom but my wife said no. Still shopping for that mobile radio though. I found a video where you said you were using a motorola xts5000, but no explanation as to what attracted you to that one. Seems like the KG 1000G does all the things, so I assume I missed something. Thanks for this one. Entertainment as always.
I expected to be taught how to program a repeater from my radio, as the video promised. But nope. I didn’t hear anything that would let me do that. I will still need to drag a laptop and programming cable out to the repeater and program it with software the regular way. Would love to be able to do that work from the radio. Maybe someday.
Thank you for your videos - you take what can be a very dry topic and make it fun. My wife has become even more interested in radios now than me. As for this video, can you advise how to set up a repeater when the Tone in/out is just listed as HZ without a DPL or CTCSS code? Please see the Bucks 550 repeater in PA for the example I'm looking at. Thanks again!
Scanning GMRS channels with my bwufwang only gives me occasional static. If I knew there was much traffic (or any traffic at all) I would buy a GMRS radio and get a license. I am in Temple, Texas. Perhaps I don't know how to properly scan those channels with my bwufwang radio.
GMRS is not really for scanning or finding/talking to strangers. GMRS is primarily intended for communicating with family/your group of others that also have GMRS radios.
Mygmrs lists a desired repeater with a DPL tone number. What's that, and how do I enter it into my uv5g? Also, there's no offset etc... listed. I'm a COMPLETE newbie! Please help, thanks!
I've read the manual but nothing in the instructions make me laugh, so I'm just gonna keep watching your content for the Info and the chuckles!
Have watched so many of your videos over the last 2 weeks my wife recognized your voice.😂 Just bought my first radio 3 days ago and received my GMRS license yesterday. Thank you sir.
All the best!
Watched a lot of your videos. Thanks for your time and great content to help us Noobies on gmrs topics
Thank YOU!
@@TheNotaRubicon no THANK YOU Sir Rando
I just purchased a GMRS radio and the directions are so tiny that I would have to use a magnifying glass to read them. I've watched several UA-cam videos and they have been terrible in helping a brand new person learn to use a repeater. Your UA-cam presentation was superb, excellent! Thank you so much.
You are definitely one of a kind Randy....please don’t change...😎
I thank you for your teachings. I will patiently await my certificate to hang on my refrigerator so that I may prove to my family that I am not a loser.
Thank you! Absolutely loved your instructions. I will now stop looking at my new GMRS radio, stroking it and marveling at it and I will now USE it!! Thanks again.
My new BTech GMRS Pro radio is scheduled to be delivered today. Thank you for sharing your review on it-and I’m glad it was favorable. I’m admittedly a newbie in the HT world, and find much value from your experience. I’m sure I’ll make far fewer newbie mistakes by learning from you.
Fun Fact: On your TekMat explosion cleaning mat, it lists a few shotgun gauges, including “.410” bore. According to a Game & Fish Ranger back in the mid-70s during a presentation for teenagers, of which I was one, if a .410 caliber shotgun was converted to gauge, it would be a 67.6 gauge. It takes 12 lead balls the diameter of a 12 gauge barrel to equal 1 pound-hence 12 gauge. But since “67.6 gauge” doesn’t relate so well to the typical shotgun gauging convention, they went with .410 caliber.
As always, a useful and helpful video!
One thing I have never understood, is the repeater owners who require a tone to access the repeater (actually a smart thing), but somehow lacked that extra thirty seconds it would have taken them to program that tone on the output so that end users can set their tone decoders (on receive) and keep noise and other stations from opening their squelch and annoying them while monitoring that repeater.
Seriously?
Then there are the owners who set their repeaters so that there is zero hang time. Hang time is that brief time after you, or anyone else using the repeater, unkeys their PTT and the repeater keeps transmitting. Most repeaters have 1 to 3 seconds of hang time. Hang time allows you to 1) know that you hit the repeater, and
2) judge about how strong the repeater is reaching your radio and relatively speaking, how you might be hitting the repeater.
One well-known GMRS dealer I know of went to the trouble and expense of setting up a repeater. For reasons known only to them, they did not program it to encode a tone on the output. Worse still, they did not have any hang time at all on the repeater. People would drive into the area, try to use the repeater, and hear nothing. They either assumed they were not in range or that the repeater was down. I don't know if they were playing a stupid game with their end-users and customers or they just didn't know any better.
I will say such sloppy programming would make me unlikely to buy a repeater from them or have them program a repeater for me.
I was already a GMRS Repeater expert before your training session as I had stayed at a HOLIDAY INN a few decades back and am certified expert in all fields now!
Thank you! This newbie knew none of that, but now I do-and BEFORE my new GMRS radio arrived. Your explanations made sense!! 👍🏻
Thanks a ton for the info on the RX tone! I received access to a repeater and (before watching this very video), put the same tone in for TX and RX. I requested a repeater check and heard no reply. I have since de-confuckulated my programming error and now have crystal clear, 2-way capability of said repeater....!
Great video. Even after a year or so programming these I catch myself second guessing some of the things you covered. Thanks for the quick reference video.
WRJZ930 just listening from Reno,Nevada station,signing on and standing by…73
Randy I noticed a lack of a wrist strap on the WOUXON. As you are well aware, this violates FCC regulations.
I am a slave to NO agency!
Huh?
Thank you so much for all the information you give to the gmrs community I'm new to this just bought my first gmrs mtx575 with the 3db shadow antenna wsek911 michigan
I have learned a lot from you and mainly cause you don’t bore me. . Thanks.
*Because ...
and thank you...
Thank you for making it easier to digest this information. Keep it coming!
Unleash the sad hams
they can confaqulate themselves
I stumble on you channel a few years ago and you explained how you setup your first repeater. You made it simply easy set one up pretty much like you first one out of KG 1000's works heart and I thank you for sharing you knowledge.
Thank you for this video!! I'm connected to a repeater!! YeeeHaw! All of your videos are super informative!! I'm now a legit Dork! Pretty cool stuff!
Keep up the good work!!
Thanks!
Thank you!
We are the same age. 62 in July. Very cool.
I have st purchased my license and waiting on the FCC to send me the call sign and then I'm going to order a radio. I will need to know how to connect to a repeater. We have a few about 50 miles from me and 40 miles in another direction. Open Repeaters are listed near me close enough I should be able to do so.
Tha ks Randy.
Best how to I've seen on repeaters hands-down!
Thank you I now understand 48% more than I did before watching this video.
I believe it was 49%
This video is great to put on repeat.
I just got myself another UA-cam certification. Thanks Randy..!
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
My previous message was lost due to my slightly drunk state. I'm always enjoy your humour. I,m English and moved to the USA 20 years ago today! I met my wife on the internet. ANyhoo, she was holding a Boofwang, the rest is history.I am 60 and I love your channel. btw. hic
@@TheNotaRubicon
This really helps! I learned a lot, and laughed a lot. You are fun and educational!
I had a thought this morning that made me laugh. Your content should be download and archived in the event of an apocalypse. Imagine a class full of children being educated by your videos😂😂 the future world would be a much funnier place😂😂😂
Just received my first radio. As a kid Dad used to listen to a scanner and we had a CB out on the back porch. Did some time monkeying with radios in the Army too. Now looking forward to exploring the world of radio. I expect many sad dorks telling me to RTFM and "clear the freq noob"
Randy , since I have a UV-5R Ham radio. Like you said I'll go treat my self with a frosty Ice cone. Needless to say , I find your videos very interesting and educational. That I'll watch your video with a frosty treat and learn something new. Thank you and God Bless.
"Frosty Jim" .. not the same thing.
@@TheNotaRubicon Not even close.
@@TheNotaRubiconit’s bidens favorite
@@TheNotaRubicon seeing as howi now know the definition of frost Jim, i think you deserve to know what a Colorado campfire is.
"Some people" need an app to read as they no longer can do anything without an app to do it for them, but you did your best Randy and that is all anyone can do in this age of stupidity! The age of stupidity is much like the "dark ages" of long ago, what goes around comes around.
This is great. I got baofeng ham and after watching you I have a couple of gmrs ones coming even got a lic. I’m gonna set em up. I’m in the valley doubt I’ll hit anything but will be good for when I’m out.
LOL..... this channel is GOLD! Best of youtube!
My favorite You Tuber...
My family will be so proud of me when they see my new certificate from you.
🤣🤣🤣🤣thx steve
i have a radio that NAR says i'm wasting my time trying to program so i was leaving BUT, i saw your bashful complaint and though you weren't amusing the replies from the unbashful subscribed are hilarious SOOO! thx steve for the laughs i had, not from you but because of you thanks!!! Steve! I'm off now to rub my UV 5r on a body part so as to find a use for it!
The BEST video on this
Thanks!
Thank you for explaining this
Outstanding
Excellent tutorial!
Thanks for another easy to watch video.
Heeeeeyyyyyy.... this guy knows when to use "supposably" and "supposedly" in their correct context. Nice.
Love your videos man! thanks for KISS version on all your videos. Now, where is my certificate :>)
A ' Frosty Jim' ? Damn. I thought I knew something when I learned what felching was. Not that I wish to partake. Thanks for the video and the term.
Thanks! I have a PhD in Chemistry and am always looking for the simplest explanation.
The neurotically chewed pencil was perfect!
It's the little things you put in your videos that so often push them completely over the top.🤣
Awesome help - thanks!!
Just to add confusion, the DCS tones are either 'N' *normal* or 'I' *Inverted*. I discovered on my Wouxon KG805G that only the 'I' tones are available in the radio menu. Enabling the use of the 'N' tones required using the factory software and a programming cable. Just FYI.
Famous quote..."I am an Engineer! I do not need to read directions."
Great video. Appreciate your content!!!
Super helpful Info
Thank you for another great video. I’ll be waiting for my certificate 😂
Our local GMRS repeater (in the West Ga. Area) is privately owned. And I think it states it is open for public use. I think he prefers users to join His Club, pay a hefty users fee! But I think this club owns multple repeaters, all linked up for an almost statewide system! So I do see why there is a hefty fee.
I think we share the same area.
More ! Please 😊
Thanks for the Great Info.
This video causes spurious emissions 🐸👍
Nice Flag, need one with a field of stars in upper corner.
The local repeater group I'm a part of, has a linked repeater system, it reaches as far southwest as Florida. Not bad for a GMRS repeater. I have to pay $35 a year, but that's reasonable, I don't mind paying it to help maintain the repeater.
I live in Tampa. Does the repeater reach down here?
Funny and informative. Thanks.
PLEASE!!!! Now make a video on how to program a REPEATER
Does the refrigerator certificate have a gold star?
Best hand modeling on the internets
New to gmrs would like to see a video on programing a uv-9g for repeaters.
In this example, when you want to transmit and use this repeater, would you select the channel for GMSR17 or the channel for REPT17?
Whats the manual? Is that the boring papers with no color?
Another question for you if you dont mind. What is the difference between the Scan that you have by long pressing 1 on the keypad and the scan that you get with long pressing 3 on the Keypad, and what situation would you use each of those for?
I'm in NorCal - I am confukulated with the repeaters and their duplicated channels? I get the FARS, but as you are moving, and your channels are pre-set, how do you utilize the duplicated 462.550 for NorCal, and then in SoCal? Chirp list has FRS first, then GMRS, then GMRS-550/15R - Trying to set a multitude of family gmrs radios.
On the repeaters link, you would program output=RX and input=TX correct?
Love the Tshirt 😂
I miss hearing the roger beep at the end of your videos. I’m sending you $5.00 as a token licensing fee for my continued reuse of the word conf¥ckulation.
Gracias!
Awesome video Thanks
Thanks for the video, def it helps. Im trying to set up GMRS repeater on Baofeng uv 5G,
local repeater info
462.725 MHz
Frequency
241.8 Hz
Input Tone
192.8 Hz
Output Tone
Could you do video on the set up for this, on a UV 5G.
I am almost there I think. Im getting the. " kick back " when I key the mike, but verbal is not coming through. I think offset is wrong maybe ?
Thank you!!
Randy! Where has the music in your videos gone?
Great video! Where can I purchase the radio? It is not on your equipment list. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
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🇺🇸Good Vid Randy👍Roger Dee Cup-O -Tee Good Buddy By Golly for Sure.
You make this shit easy. Thank you
I am unsad but I do find it difficult to find the transmit tones different repeaters use. Many seem to keep it secret and/or not published at least for the few repeaters in the Milwaukee area.
Question. I have the Midland mxt275 and can not transmit onto a repeater. I turned repeater mode on and put in the right Ctss , etc. I still can't transmit. I can hear others though. Am i screwing up or does the Midland mxt275 not transmit to repeaters? Thank you for the time if read this
Yes, the midland transmits to transmitters..
CONFIRM you are in repeater mode
CONFIRM you are on the right repeater channel
CONFIRM you have the correct tone, set as the TRANSMIT tone
CONFIRM you are within range of the repeater
CONFIRM it is actually the repeater you are hearing and not just people talking on simplex
IF everything is confirmed, then either your radio is defective, or you did something wrong. and I doubt the radio is defective.
@TheNotaRubicon thanks a bunch and fast reply. I don't listen to those "some people" about you.
I have learned a lot from your videos and I thank you for your service.
However I have a question about radio selection? You said that you must have a GMRS radio to be able to program in a repeater. I have a Radioddity GS-5B and a Radtel RT470 both radios have the tone settings that you speak of. If I cannot use these radios on a GMRS repeater. Then why can they be programmed to use on a GMRS repeater?
You need a GMRS radio to use a GMRS repeater without breaking the FCC rules. Ham radios use ham repeaters and most will not transmit to GMRS repeaters, but those that do would break the rules.
No GMRS repeaters nearby, but I'm still here for the T-shirt and background screen. ... And I might accidentally learn something.
Maybe it is a stupid question, but you were in VFO or MR mode when you set the Tone?
I learn something and Laugh my a$$ off at the same time.
I printed my certificate and put it in the passenger window of my Buick. That way, when I park sideways at Walmart and take up two handicapped spots, people can see it more clearly and they will respect me.
Hi, quick question understanding the radio already has set programmed GMRS, FRS, RPT and DIY. I'm attempting to set additional repeaters do I need to change both the CTCSS and TXTCS codes to hear and communicate on those channels for the UV15 GMRS radio. I was able to hear communication between others on certain channels frequencies but could not get a radio check from anyone. Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
To transmit on a repeater you must use the correct repeater-channel (different from normal channels), you must have the correct transmit tone for the repeater programmed on that channel and you must be within range of the repeater - just because you can hear the repeater does not mean your radio can reach it.
The RECEIVE tone is optional, and as a beginner you should leave it off.
@@TheNotaRubicon so example 462.725 MHz
Frequency
136.5 Hz
Input Tone
136.5 Hz
Output Tone
So would set CTCSS & RTCSS onto radio to enable contact via repeater? Same if 462.550 MHz
Frequency
503 DPL
Input Tone
503 DPL
Output Tone. If so thanks & apologies as hopefully want to establish communication with someone out there.
👍👍👍 Thanks. ...Alan in 🇨🇱
Where did you get your education? Amazing !!
Hello i dont know what im doing wrong your video is very clear in how to program a repeater...i still can mine to connect..pls help..i have a baofeng GMRS-9R with 1-8 repeatable channels
1) make sure you are on the correct repeater channel
2) make sure you have entered the correct TRANSMIT tone/code
3) to reduce issues/variables, REMOVE the RECEIVE/RX tone/code - this is optional and can cause problems if you do it wrong
4) make sure you are IN RANGE of the repeater & transmit
..if you do all those things right, and still cannot connect, then either you are doing it wrong or your radio is defective.. and I doubt your radio is defective.
Ok here is the repeater info
462.575
Input Tone 074Dpl
Output tone 074DPL
THIS is a baofeng gmrs 9r
I tried to program it on repeater2 channel
This is what I'm doing
I'm on channel mode
Chose repeter2 channel
Press menu 12
T DCS 074N
MENU
AND HIT EXIT
QUESTION...on my gmrs I have the tones for a particular channel. On repeater book, tgat same gmrs channel has the tone and seems to have an offset freq. Do gmrs repeaters use or need offsets???
GMRS always has a built-in/automatic offset of +5Mhz for a repeater. on a real GMRS radio you just have to figure out which repeater channel it is based on the frequency and then enter the tone.
Hope you can find a good, strong, sturdy banana for your cause with any funds left over that UA-cam Republic doesn't steal from you. :)
I'm not one of them Jason!just trying to understand the whole picture! I have the btech gmrs V2
Channels 15-22-repeater Channels- then you say I believe! Channels 23 through 30 repeater channels as well (concerning tone SETTINGS) Looking for Repeaters! A little confused my friend!
*can you help me out with this problem my friend?
*I do have a gmrs license wrqy733
Ps- I did try to find a school here in Boston Massachusetts to learn with hands on! I could learn this much, much! Faster!! But had no luck at all, Jason!!
*well , Thanks For Listening, My Friend!!
Channels 23-30 are the repeater channels that you use when using/transmitting on a repeater.
Channels 15-22 are SHARED with the repeater channels - Watch this video for more details: -- > ua-cam.com/video/3PBZYCjNAoc/v-deo.html
PS: Nobody cares that you have your GMRS license, and no need to ever post it online.
I filled the condom but my wife said no. Still shopping for that mobile radio though. I found a video where you said you were using a motorola xts5000, but no explanation as to what attracted you to that one. Seems like the KG 1000G does all the things, so I assume I missed something. Thanks for this one. Entertainment as always.
The XTS5000 and XTL5000 both do encryption..
Tell your wife to give me a call, i'll set her straight.
lmao, you are a serious horn dog...'tranceive and receivvvvvve' ;)~ = confukulation. My headset on, and others watching me laugh!
I expected to be taught how to program a repeater from my radio, as the video promised. But nope. I didn’t hear anything that would let me do that. I will still need to drag a laptop and programming cable out to the repeater and program it with software the regular way. Would love to be able to do that work from the radio. Maybe someday.
Thank you for your videos - you take what can be a very dry topic and make it fun. My wife has become even more interested in radios now than me. As for this video, can you advise how to set up a repeater when the Tone in/out is just listed as HZ without a DPL or CTCSS code? Please see the Bucks 550 repeater in PA for the example I'm looking at. Thanks again!
Hey Randy, where can I get the gertex7000u programming software?
Scanning GMRS channels with my bwufwang only gives me occasional static. If I knew there was much traffic (or any traffic at all) I would buy a GMRS radio and get a license. I am in Temple, Texas. Perhaps I don't know how to properly scan those channels with my bwufwang radio.
GMRS is not really for scanning or finding/talking to strangers. GMRS is primarily intended for communicating with family/your group of others that also have GMRS radios.
@@TheNotaRubicon Thanks for the clarification.
Mygmrs lists a desired repeater with a DPL tone number. What's that, and how do I enter it into my uv5g? Also, there's no offset etc... listed. I'm a COMPLETE newbie! Please help, thanks!
DPL, DTC, and DTS are all the same thing, so enter it in TX-DTC (or whatever its called) menu setting for the correct-repeater channel.