Hey! I got my GMRS license two days ago. It took me about four hours to get my first repeater up and running using CHIRP. I just chatted with a guy 50 miles away and I feel like a million bucks! Thanks for the help!!
Thanks for all of your time and effort into making GRMS Radio Hobby fun. I own a few Baofeng's myself, the Uv-5r and the Uv-9Plus and the 8W Uv-9Plus was able to hit my local repeaters. Your videos helped a lot in getting started. I'm almost 60 years old and needed a new hobby, so thanks again for all of your expertise help. -Bob
Thanks Randy. Struggled for hours trying to figure out how to do my first repeater program after upgrading to the KGUV9GX. Awesome radio. Used your affiliate link so thanks for that as well. Anyways, all I had was the repeater’s frequency and the In and Out numbers to punch in. Your video broke it down better than the others I watched and made it pretty dang easy. I did a repeater check and someone responded so that was pretty exciting. So I’m having lots of fun. My wife says I’m a nerd and I have to remind her that “Randy” says I’m very cool and will impress the chicks. Especially with my Roger Beep on.
You’re the absolute BEST brother! I love your humility combined with clean sarcasm 😆😆😆 As a former Drill Sergeant I ALWAYS get a kick out of your sarcastic/cynical comments 😆😆😆 Luv’ya brother! Keep up the good job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Randy I have said it before: you are the most informative and funny person on UA-cam. Your channel/Frequency list is priceless. It makes the munbo-jumbo of GRMS Channels vs Repeater channels vs frequencies (send vs receive) easy to understand. I was able to set up a local repeaters in a few minutes just by watching you video, looking at your list and lining it up with the repeaters information.
Thank you for all your help, I got into GMRS a week or so ago because of you and i have been learning so much, managed to hit a repeater 30 miles a way on a beoufeng uv-9g handheld with an aftermarket antenna and talked to someone a 143 miles away in a car ride. I have been using mygmrs o find repeaters and found out that there is a group in Arkansas. I ended up connecting to someone that I believe was repeater hopping. I still have so much to learn and do, now i am making a repeater list.
Man what can I say? Thank You is a good start! I’m just sitting here by myself laughing. My roommate can hear me chuckling. She thought I was watching a movie at first! Thanks for the laughs! This stuff is so good... especially for beginners. It makes learning fun. I’ve learned a lot from your videos, but I do enjoy manuals so besides you, they really do help! Have a good one! Priceless.
Thank you for this video. I was in the dark about this information until yesterday when I met with a communications genius that runs 5 repeaters in my area. The information you've provided with this video absolutely corresponds with what my new friend taught me. I even turned on the Roger beeps for both TX & RX....lol (he stopped renewing his HAM license years ago, but keeps his GMRS license)
Because of your video I finally bought the Baofend uv9g. Got two radios with all the gadgets and an upgraded antenna all for $73.90 If not for you and Josh doing shows together I quit looking for Ham and Looked for GMRS. Your review of the UV9G sold me. AND every single gripe you had was addressed and several more as well. This thing is fixed and improved and ready to go. So for $37.00 per unit filled with extra goodies, I got a PERFECT $40.00 RADIO. Programing cable, headset as well. Thank you Randy. Now the learning curve, I need a valium.
Hello Randy! I’m very interested in GMRS. Just received a TK880. I’m an Elmer type ham operator and always experimenting. Not an Asshat. Licensed 56 years. Thanks for your Videos and information. -Bob. KQ2Q
An idiot like me couldn’t get it, this is just what I was hoping for to get my new 905G repeater ready. Thanks again Randy for another outstanding video.
Thank you for this video. I just got my new GMRS radios and was able to connect to one of the repeaters near me and received the confirmed tone! Looking forward to learning more on this hobby and hoping to get to talk to some people soon! Thanks again!
Brand new. Found you, learning a hell of a lot. First repeater I ever heard was when I logged onto your repeater with ZELLO and listening, heard a guy driving in the rain in LA on the freeway. He keyed up for a radio check and was responded to by a registered user sitting at Yankee stadium in NY. Cool as snot.
Thanks for the tips. Just got my license and got the Btech GMRS PRO after watching your video. Found one repeater in my area but no luck hitting it yet. Our home is topographically challenged though.
30 years driving semi's with a CB a Booster and an occasional Roger Beep (actually the Doorbell....Ding Dong) drives them crazy with Love and Appreciation :)
I've been using cb for 30 ish yrs and I've hated the Roger beep. Lol just my pet peeve. The funny thing is I am now a ham radio operator and the digital system fusion has a "built in" Roger beep. Every time a user unkeys it beeps. I find this Hilarious. I now actually appreciate it.
Your videos and explanations are by far the easiest at least for me to follow. Apparently I’m receiving on whatever frequency you’re transmitting on. Keep it up! 👍
Very fine and informative video, as always. Thank you. Any reasons why the repeater goes silent after entering the correct RX & TX tones? (can't even hear the repeater announcing its own name - as it does on a regular basis).
I’m new to this radio stuff. I know you said in a few videos that GRMS can talk to the bubble wrap walkie-talkies but how and what channels? Would buy some and figure it out but Mama won’t let spend anymore green! Thank you for helping spend my money and the info is pretty good. Thanks
Thank you! I now have some confidence that I can program for a repeater. Unfortunately, in SE Minnesota, I'm in a GMRS wasteland. There are no active repeaters or GMRS clubs within 100 miles where I live. There are HAM repeaters though, but I suspect they would not be available to me, as I don't have a HAM license. I'll have to be content with relatively short range communications. My town is in a valley that would probably be counterproductive to building or buying my own repeater.
Thank you, I needed that! My 905G did not come with the manual. I guess they weren't printed at the time. I am on a wait list for them to come in. I am able to access it on the website thankfully.
Hi, thank you for all the info you put out on your channel. I am new to GMRS so this has been very informative for me. Don't have a radio yet but hopefully in the next month or so that will change. My name is Don and Thanks again.
Thank you for all your videos as they are very useful. I've been doing a lot of research on two-way radios and as a first-time user, I went with the Baofeng UV-9G. I'm waiting for my GMRS license to come in the mail soon. But my question is can the UV-9G be programmed with different GMRS Repeater frequencies thank you. Ps don't laugh because I'm a newbie 😅
Yes, but that term makes "some" people sad because it infers that you only "ping" or "kerchunk" it, without identifying yourself or saying anything - and certain people get very butthurt if you even talk about doing that on UA-cam.
Randy - new to GMRS; find your videos very informative and entertaining...great ambassador for this hobby. My simple question: the local repeater to which I'd like to connect specifies a 'Tone In'. I'm assuming I would program that as a tC as opposed to an rC. Is this correct? TIA!
Great video! I am getting that noise back after transmitting but shouldn't I be hearing my message back if it "repeated" it out to the world? Who would actually hear my message then? Would it be other radios (besides the one I used to transmit with) that are also programmed exactly how the transmit radio was programmed? For example, if I had 2 radios programmed the exact same for a repeater and had both of them turned on. I transmit from one, would I hear the actual message on the second one? Or does the second one have to be programmed differently?
Just starting to get this figured out. Thanks so much for putting all this data out there. I am watching new stuff and repeatedly reviewing your stuff you daily. As your "favorite user" I have a question that I hope you can help me with . I have a Wouxun KG s88g and there is a repeater down here in San Diego whos owner granted me access and mentioned ... You will need to transmit a 271 "DPL tone" to access the repeater. At this time the system is not transmitting a tone." Seems to be basic....I see the options on the CTC area in the Wouxun software. There is a "D271N" and a "D271I" is this the same as the DPL and which one should I use N or I ?
@@TheNotaRubicon Thanks. I heard some mixed messages about the functionality of Crestview repeater for up at Big Bear. I saw that you were programming that one in in another video. Is that working currently. MyGmrs says it is...
Thank you for your videos they have been very helpful to me as I am new to GMRS. When using my GMRS mobile do I use my call sign on all Chanel’s...or only on repeater Chanel’s? I know of the 10-15 min rule, and the Do not say it every time you click to talk.
OKAY Randy if you wouldn't mind can you do a similar video but using the 9R OR 9G? I've gotten a few messages asking if I knew how to set up the offset of 5.k. I guest a few repeaters have offsets. thanks for all the videos I myself appreciate.
Hello! Is it possible to "daisy Chain" repeaters? I have a cabin about a hundred miles from my home and there are 2 repeaters between here and there. I just wanted to know if it was possible before I try to get permission for the repeater use. --thanks in advance.
New to all this. I asked the closest repeater owner for permission and he sent the frequency and DPL411 for the tone. NOW I'm confused. Using the Retevis RA-86...I don't see anything for DPL411.
@@TheNotaRubicon I don't have a DCS 411. I go up to DCS210. Then the next choice is off and goes to CTC codes. I feel completely stupid. Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate it.
Do these radios save the setting? I'm looking at a KG-805G - mostly thanks to your videos - as my first GMRS radio and I have a Mac so I won't be able to use the PC only software
Hello Randy, is there any way you can please do the step by step for repeater set up like this one except using the baofeng uv-9g. I took your advice and actually bought one but unfortunately I'm an older visual learner and i would greatly appreciate it if you can create a video using the uv-9g. I tried following along but the uv-9g has different features and abbreviations and I'm worried I might mess up the radio. Thanks again.
So, any suggestions for us Apple users as far as Programming with the software? I could really use that OFFSET function, LOL. You may not agree, but I think that is a function I'd like to set from the unit itself......I could take that over about half of the features that you CAN access....... /radio arrived today, and it's nice, so thanks for giving a good review....It's why I bought it, that and the fact the 905G is still sold out, LOL
Hi Randy, I've got a question regarding repeater stuff.... I see where people will use a cable to interface from one uv-5R speaker outlet to a mic outlet on a second uv-5R and place that radio into a vox mode (using the regular GMRS repeater frequencies (highly illegal by the way)) but my question is, is the +500 offset enough to not get feed back into the radios??? even using a higher power radio??? or using a separate gain antenna on each radio??? Just seems like a nice quick simple way to set up a repeater. thanks for any info.
Dunno! Never set up two UV-5Rs like that.. But interference/desense can be an issue - so you have to keep the radios apart, you have to use a good duplexer, or two antennas, far from each other.
I'm very new and love watching your videos, great information. Can you explain "tone"? I'm confused, you talk about "tone" like a frequency but then you refer to "tone" like a sound too.
a "tone", sometimes called a code, is a setting that you use to activate a repeater. The technical name is 'CTCSS' tone or DCS tone. It is a tone with a specific frequency that you cant hear but other radios/repeaters can hear..
Hello Randy. Programming WRBL535 gmrs repeter in the anytone 778uv software . I came across the information that if the squelch mode says “carrier “ in the software then you do not need to program the input tone , which is 151.4 Hz. Is this correct?
Good info bit it does not seem to be the same for my brand new 916 model from Better Safe. Is it me? Or could you do a video on setting a repeater on that radio?? I have a repeater at a ski resort high in the mtns near where I hike and want to connect to it. Maybe it's only a Ham repeater. 167.1800, Snowbird resort, hidden peak
After bouncing back and forth from this video to myGMRS it seems pretty logical to assume that the myGMRS freq listed as "output" is the "transmit" that you are talking about. Am I making a correct assumption?
Randy, I'm feeling pretty lazy this morning; is it possible to daisy chain GMRS repeaters so you can get a ton of fars? You may have done a video on it, but like I said; lazy.
"Randy's here to save the day again." I had to chuckle, because his knowledge and concise explanations do just that!
Hey! I got my GMRS license two days ago. It took me about four hours to get my first repeater up and running using CHIRP. I just chatted with a guy 50 miles away and I feel like a million bucks! Thanks for the help!!
“Make sure you use Roger Beep! Ham Radio Guys Love That!”
Gmrs guys don't seem to like that lol
Thanks for all of your time and effort into making GRMS Radio Hobby fun. I own a few Baofeng's myself, the Uv-5r and the Uv-9Plus and the 8W Uv-9Plus was able to hit my local repeaters. Your videos helped a lot in getting started. I'm almost 60 years old and needed a new hobby, so thanks again for all of your expertise help. -Bob
I was able to hit my local repeater on my UV-5R.
@@nimblehealer199 Awesome 😎
Thanks Randy. Struggled for hours trying to figure out how to do my first repeater program after upgrading to the KGUV9GX. Awesome radio. Used your affiliate link so thanks for that as well. Anyways, all I had was the repeater’s frequency and the In and Out numbers to punch in. Your video broke it down better than the others I watched and made it pretty dang easy. I did a repeater check and someone responded so that was pretty exciting. So I’m having lots of fun. My wife says I’m a nerd and I have to remind her that “Randy” says I’m very cool and will impress the chicks. Especially with my Roger Beep on.
You’re the absolute BEST brother! I love your humility combined with clean sarcasm 😆😆😆 As a former Drill Sergeant I ALWAYS get a kick out of your sarcastic/cynical comments 😆😆😆 Luv’ya brother! Keep up the good job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Randy
I have said it before: you are the most informative and funny person on UA-cam. Your channel/Frequency list is priceless. It makes the munbo-jumbo of GRMS Channels vs Repeater channels vs frequencies (send vs receive) easy to understand. I was able to set up a local repeaters in a few minutes just by watching you video, looking at your list and lining it up with the repeaters information.
Thank you for all your help, I got into GMRS a week or so ago because of you and i have been learning so much, managed to hit a repeater 30 miles a way on a beoufeng uv-9g handheld with an aftermarket antenna and talked to someone a 143 miles away in a car ride. I have been using mygmrs o find repeaters and found out that there is a group in Arkansas. I ended up connecting to someone that I believe was repeater hopping. I still have so much to learn and do, now i am making a repeater list.
Man what can I say? Thank You is a good start! I’m just sitting here by myself laughing. My roommate can hear me chuckling. She thought I was watching a movie at first! Thanks for the laughs! This stuff is so good... especially for beginners. It makes learning fun. I’ve learned a lot from your videos, but I do enjoy manuals so besides you, they really do help! Have a good one! Priceless.
Thanks for the video. I had my grand-daughter watch it and she is busy now setting my 805g up
Thank you for this video. I was in the dark about this information until yesterday when I met with a communications genius that runs 5 repeaters in my area. The information you've provided with this video absolutely corresponds with what my new friend taught me. I even turned on the Roger beeps for both TX & RX....lol (he stopped renewing his HAM license years ago, but keeps his GMRS license)
Because of your video I finally bought the Baofend uv9g. Got two radios with all the gadgets and an upgraded antenna all for $73.90 If not for you and Josh doing shows together I quit looking for Ham and Looked for GMRS. Your review of the UV9G sold me. AND every single gripe you had was addressed and several more as well. This thing is fixed and improved and ready to go. So for $37.00 per unit filled with extra goodies, I got a PERFECT $40.00 RADIO. Programing cable, headset as well. Thank you Randy. Now the learning curve, I need a valium.
Hello Randy! I’m very interested in GMRS. Just received a TK880.
I’m an Elmer type ham operator and always experimenting. Not an Asshat.
Licensed 56 years.
Thanks for your Videos and information.
-Bob. KQ2Q
This helped a lot. I have my gmrs license and picked up a kg935g and after reading the manual still wasn’t sure how to access a repeater
An idiot like me couldn’t get it, this is just what I was hoping for to get my new 905G repeater ready. Thanks again Randy for another outstanding video.
Randy, always appreciate your knowledge and humor.
Thank you for this video. I just got my new GMRS radios and was able to connect to one of the repeaters near me and received the confirmed tone! Looking forward to learning more on this hobby and hoping to get to talk to some people soon! Thanks again!
Brand new. Found you, learning a hell of a lot. First repeater I ever heard was when I logged onto your repeater with ZELLO and listening, heard a guy driving in the rain in LA on the freeway. He keyed up for a radio check and was responded to by a registered user sitting at Yankee stadium in NY. Cool as snot.
You took me down the Radio Rabbit hole...
God Bless you and yours.
Thanks for great and entertaining videos.
Thanks for the science. I was clueless about repeaters. Your humor is appreciated.
Thanks for the tips. Just got my license and got the Btech GMRS PRO after watching your video. Found one repeater in my area but no luck hitting it yet. Our home is topographically challenged though.
I think I'm 3 videos deep in to this madness. I love it and this is the first video that helped me understand this. Thanks Randy.
30 years driving semi's with a CB a Booster and an occasional Roger Beep (actually the Doorbell....Ding Dong) drives them crazy with Love and Appreciation :)
I've been using cb for 30 ish yrs and I've hated the Roger beep. Lol just my pet peeve. The funny thing is I am now a ham radio operator and the digital system fusion has a "built in" Roger beep. Every time a user unkeys it beeps. I find this Hilarious. I now actually appreciate it.
Nice notarubicon proprietary coffee slurp/squelch special sound effects
Best gmrs info on UA-cam with this channel
thanks very informative. The KG 905 is still back ordered. Can't wait.
Your videos and explanations are by far the easiest at least for me to follow. Apparently I’m receiving on whatever frequency you’re transmitting on. Keep it up!
👍
So I heard practice mic chunking and Identify every 15 seconds . Oh wait that’s my local 2 meter repeater never mind. I enjoy your videos thank you.
Thank you. You're a good teacher and your style is 👍
Very fine and informative video, as always. Thank you. Any reasons why the repeater goes silent after entering the correct RX & TX tones? (can't even hear the repeater announcing its own name - as it does on a regular basis).
Yes, that means you entered the wrong RX tone.
@@TheNotaRubicon Will double check with owner. Thank you.
Love your sense of humor !
Thank you for sharing your knowledge !
I’m new to this radio stuff. I know you said in a few videos that GRMS can talk to the bubble wrap walkie-talkies but how and what channels? Would buy some and figure it out but Mama won’t let spend anymore green!
Thank you for helping spend my money and the info is pretty good. Thanks
Thanks, am new on this GMRS world this is very helpful I hope I get it right. Thank you
Love your videos! They crack me up.
Thank you! I now have some confidence that I can program for a repeater. Unfortunately, in SE Minnesota, I'm in a GMRS wasteland. There are no active repeaters or GMRS clubs within 100 miles where I live. There are HAM repeaters though, but I suspect they would not be available to me, as I don't have a HAM license. I'll have to be content with relatively short range communications. My town is in a valley that would probably be counterproductive to building or buying my own repeater.
I think the Roger beep sounds cool.
Thank you, I needed that! My 905G did not come with the manual. I guess they weren't printed at the time. I am on a wait list for them to come in. I am able to access it on the website thankfully.
Thank you for sharing information. Some very much appreciate it.
I learned a lot from u and u make me laugh with ur sense of humor. That is two for one. Appreciate all ur work to create these video to help people
Huge help and I wasn't even using the same model as you.
I really enjoy this explaination. Very entertaining.
I thank your information is great and I do appreciate all you say and humor lol thank you so much
Great Info. Love the explanations. Hate the slurping coffee! Pin to the TOP !!!!
Hi, thank you for all the info you put out on your channel. I am new to GMRS so this has been very informative for me. Don't have a radio yet but hopefully in the next month or so that will change.
My name is Don and Thanks again.
This guy. Mad love for you randy. Thank you. Just stumbled across your channel love the humor. Thank you
Holy moly🤯 that's a lot to download now I've got a headache🥴
You are a big help to me,thank you!
LOVE YOUR SHOWS, KEEP ME LAUGHING ANDS VERY INTERESTING AND KNOWABLE
Very new to GMRS, any chance you can do a video on the UV-5G for programming repeaters?
Thanks Randy, this was helpful and entertaining.
Thanks Randy. Very helpful info. BTW I did get my license yesterday. WRWQ208
Excellent info and instruction... Thanks much..
Thank you. You're a good teacher.
This helps out a lot. Thanks for putting in the time and effort in making the video.
Thanks for the info I’m new to gmrs and learning a lot from your videos keep up the great work.
U are too cool brother. Love listening to your broadcasts. Very informative and enjoyable. Keep on keepin on.
This is very technical
what do you think about the Wouxun KG-935G GMRS Two Way Radio. The video is very informative. ThankYou
Much thanks! This brought it all together.
Thank you for the great video, I have so much to learn.
Thank you for all your videos as they are very useful. I've been doing a lot of research on two-way radios and as a first-time user, I went with the Baofeng UV-9G. I'm waiting for my GMRS license to come in the mail soon. But my question is can the UV-9G be programmed with different GMRS Repeater frequencies thank you. Ps don't laugh because I'm a newbie 😅
My GLOB, the snark is real here... more... MORE. Great channel.
Thanks for all the informational videos. Where is that 462.575 with 67.0 tone located?
That one in Crestline, overlooking the Inland Empire.
Really like video on the repeaters, you made it to understand. when you tried to
Access the repeater wasn't it.called pinging the repeater.
Yes, but that term makes "some" people sad because it infers that you only "ping" or "kerchunk" it, without identifying yourself or saying anything - and certain people get very butthurt if you even talk about doing that on UA-cam.
Sounds like the internet before the internet.
@@TheNotaRubicon "some" people get upset if you even think it. 😳💭📡
Randy - new to GMRS; find your videos very informative and entertaining...great ambassador for this hobby.
My simple question: the local repeater to which I'd like to connect specifies a 'Tone In'. I'm assuming I would program that as a tC as opposed to an rC. Is this correct? TIA!
Tone IN means the tone you need to send or TX to the repeater, so that would be tC.
Great video! I am getting that noise back after transmitting but shouldn't I be hearing my message back if it "repeated" it out to the world? Who would actually hear my message then? Would it be other radios (besides the one I used to transmit with) that are also programmed exactly how the transmit radio was programmed? For example, if I had 2 radios programmed the exact same for a repeater and had both of them turned on. I transmit from one, would I hear the actual message on the second one? Or does the second one have to be programmed differently?
Channel/Frequency List:
Repeater # 1/Repeater 15/GMRS 23/ Repeater 15: 467.5500 MHz / 462.5500
Repeater # 2/Repeater 16/GMRS 24/ Repeater 16: 467.5750 Mhz / 462.5750
Repeater # 3/Repeater 17/GMRS 25/ Repeater 17: 467.6000 Mhz / 462.6000
Repeater # 4/Repeater 18/GMRS 26/ Repeater 18: 467.6250 Mhz / 462.6250
Repeater # 5/Repeater 19/GMRS 27/ Repeater 19: 467.6500 Mhz / 462.6500
Repeater # 7/Repeater 20/GMRS 28/ Repeater 20: 467.6750 Mhz / 462.6750
Repeater # 7/Repeater 21/GMRS 29/ Repeater 21: 467.7000 Mhz / 462.7000
Repeater # 8/Repeater 22/GMRS 30/ Repeater 22: 467.7250 Mhz / 462.7250
Thanks for the class. Very good information. Love the humor. ( I did 'like' and subscribed )
I love doing radio checks 😍😍😘😘😘😘
Just starting to get this figured out. Thanks so much for putting all this data out there. I am watching new stuff and repeatedly reviewing your stuff you daily. As your "favorite user" I have a question that I hope you can help me with .
I have a Wouxun KG s88g and there is a repeater down here in San Diego whos owner granted me access and mentioned ... You will need to transmit a 271 "DPL tone" to access the repeater. At this time the system is not transmitting a tone." Seems to be basic....I see the options on the CTC area in the Wouxun software. There is a "D271N" and a "D271I" is this the same as the DPL and which one should I use N or I ?
D271N
.."N" means Normal.. "I" means Inverted.. so unless "I" is specified, it would be N.
@@TheNotaRubicon Thanks. I heard some mixed messages about the functionality of Crestview repeater for up at Big Bear. I saw that you were programming that one in in another video. Is that working currently. MyGmrs says it is...
OH. and thanks so much for the quick response on the rookie question.
Thank you for your videos they have been very helpful to me as I am new to GMRS. When using my GMRS mobile do I use my call sign on all Chanel’s...or only on repeater Chanel’s? I know of the 10-15 min rule, and the Do not say it every time you click to talk.
If you are using a GMRS radio, you must use your callsign on all channels
OKAY Randy if you wouldn't mind can you do a similar video but using the 9R OR 9G? I've gotten a few messages asking if I knew how to set up the offset of 5.k. I guest a few repeaters have offsets. thanks for all the videos I myself appreciate.
Here I sit with my brand new 805, wondering what I have done. Yes, I have the license.
How did you receive your license.. my payment went through on August 9th
Hello! Is it possible to "daisy Chain" repeaters? I have a cabin about a hundred miles from my home and there are 2 repeaters between here and there. I just wanted to know if it was possible before I try to get permission for the repeater use. --thanks in advance.
New to all this. I asked the closest repeater owner for permission and he sent the frequency and DPL411 for the tone. NOW I'm confused. Using the Retevis RA-86...I don't see anything for DPL411.
DPL, DTC, & DCS are the same thing, so on the RA86 it would be DCS411
@@TheNotaRubicon I don't have a DCS 411. I go up to DCS210. Then the next choice is off and goes to CTC codes. I feel completely stupid. Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate it.
Wow, I hit that repeater from Northwest Anaheim.. thanx, WRNR411
Do these radios save the setting? I'm looking at a KG-805G - mostly thanks to your videos - as my first GMRS radio and I have a Mac so I won't be able to use the PC only software
Good information. Enjoy all your videos for the information and entertainment.
I learned something, thanks, been wondering about this very thing
Hello Randy, is there any way you can please do the step by step for repeater set up like this one except using the baofeng uv-9g. I took your advice and actually bought one but unfortunately I'm an older visual learner and i would greatly appreciate it if you can create a video using the uv-9g. I tried following along but the uv-9g has different features and abbreviations and I'm worried I might mess up the radio. Thanks again.
So, any suggestions for us Apple users as far as Programming with the software? I could really use that OFFSET function, LOL. You may not agree, but I think that is a function I'd like to set from the unit itself......I could take that over about half of the features that you CAN access....... /radio arrived today, and it's nice, so thanks for giving a good review....It's why I bought it, that and the fact the 905G is still sold out, LOL
I asked this question on another video. Sorry. I didn't realize this video existed. I should have known notarubicon would show the way.
Hi Randy,
I've got a question regarding repeater stuff.... I see where people will use a cable to interface from one uv-5R speaker outlet to a mic outlet on a second uv-5R and place that radio into a vox mode (using the regular GMRS repeater frequencies (highly illegal by the way)) but my question is, is the +500 offset enough to not get feed back into the radios??? even using a higher power radio??? or using a separate gain antenna on each radio??? Just seems like a nice quick simple way to set up a repeater. thanks for any info.
Dunno! Never set up two UV-5Rs like that.. But interference/desense can be an issue - so you have to keep the radios apart, you have to use a good duplexer, or two antennas, far from each other.
Great explanation. Thanks.
Good job Randy
I learned a few things ! Thanks
hello, nice video, thank you. I have a midland gxt1000 radio, can I download 446 pmr channels to this radio with computer program?
I'm very new and love watching your videos, great information. Can you explain "tone"? I'm confused, you talk about "tone" like a frequency but then you refer to "tone" like a sound too.
a "tone", sometimes called a code, is a setting that you use to activate a repeater. The technical name is 'CTCSS' tone or DCS tone. It is a tone with a specific frequency that you cant hear but other radios/repeaters can hear..
@@TheNotaRubicon I noticed in MyGRMS repeater list has input and output tone. Do I have that right?
Hey Randy, how do I know what tones ( tx and rx) go with what repeater? Just started this hobby, can’t seem to find that information anywhere? Thanks!
Go to my gmrs on the web and you should be able to find that information there.
Excelente información
¡ GRACIAS !!
Hello Randy. Programming WRBL535 gmrs repeter in the anytone 778uv software . I came across the information that if the squelch mode says “carrier “ in the software then you do not need to program the input tone , which is 151.4 Hz. Is this correct?
Good info bit it does not seem to be the same for my brand new 916 model from Better Safe. Is it me? Or could you do a video on setting a repeater on that radio??
I have a repeater at a ski resort high in the mtns near where I hike and want to connect to it. Maybe it's only a Ham repeater.
167.1800, Snowbird resort, hidden peak
That is not a GMRS repeater.
After bouncing back and forth from this video to myGMRS it seems pretty logical to assume that the myGMRS freq listed as "output" is the "transmit" that you are talking about. Am I making a correct assumption?
Randy, I'm feeling pretty lazy this morning; is it possible to daisy chain GMRS repeaters so you can get a ton of fars? You may have done a video on it, but like I said; lazy.
I have the 50 watt GMTS BTECH what is the easy way to add the tones to the pre programmed repeater pairs...thank you buddy
Hello sir. Been waiting for permission on some major gmrs repeaters. With unlisted tones. Do I need to sign up with a gmrs club?
Nice Vid, very informative; keep up the good work.
Another entertaining video.. thanks!