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HAM Repeaters are not portable rigs like a basecamp GMRS deployment, we put em at strategic locations at high elevations so the horizon is much much further out.. you can key up those with handhelds at impressive range, let alone mobile high powered rigs.. the locals here key up our mountain top...

thats of course is quite logical, however I kinda was meaning which would be the first you'd buy assuming you cant get both right now.. in the context of light exploring, ie you really dont really have any need to get to the other end of this trail, other than perhaps pride I suppose?

Compare to the GMRS Repeater Map its pathetic: https://mygmrs.com/map/ And almost all those guys are breaking some rule somewhere to run this, because getting properly licensed gear that does duplex is hunting unicorns.. 12 years ago when I built my repeater, I was using old 90's cop radios and...

How many folks had to use a winch in a situation you only ended up in because of said winch? How many folks have a winch that you have never used How many winch owners who self recover often have traction boards and which would you grab first? I think alot of this might be regional too, those...

HAM Repeater network is ************ and can get you EmComs in most of NA if your proficient broadcaster, but everyone has to be license holders.. sharing is really only kosher when directly supervised by a license holder, like when grandpa lets his grandson fire up the ham.. they love that stuff...

Nope, you need full duplex.. repeater has to transmit at the same time it receives.. everything has to be duplex mode to use repeaters.. they do make simplex repeaters but they are stupid, its just plugging a recorder into another radio.. it listens, records, and then replays it after.. so...

@MOguy thats how I use it, I got a toy hauler and setup base camp.. I got a bunch of simple idiot proof radios already setup, they are on a lanyard with an emergency whistle.. everyone takes one when they leave camp and does a radio check on the way out just to make sure its on right channel...

My work pays for a mobile plan, so I put my personal plan on a different provider.. having more than one option has been a key to much of my success.. sounds like you needa go hunting for some more fishing holes this summer, take em both with you and if you can find a new favorite that has any...

@MOguy you totally can with GMRS, I have one in my trailer.. You take two radios, usually high power mobile ones.. tune one to listen on one frequency, the other to transmit on the offset frequency.. then wire the output of one into the input of another and a bit of extra circuitry thats usually...

You can put a tone on it and hope nobody has access to a tone decoder, but thats the extent of it.. if someone uses your repeater without permission not much you can do but shut it down.

Uh thats not talk around, its when you swap the duplex.. you transmit on the repeater output frequency and receive on the transmitter input frequency.. its duplex and used so if your far enough away you cant key up the repeater you can mebe summon someone tuned to the repeater who's within your...

Uh yeah, since I pay money and have more power I get priority over the usage.. You cant overpower me when your limited to the 2W free limit.. also since FRS is limited to walkie-talkie handhelds, they dont really need more than 2W because its plenty of power for a 6ft tall person to reach the...

I replied good honest advice to the OP on the first page, since then its de-railed into the typical winch waving contest.. I'm not saying all people with a winch are mall crawlers, but I am saying all mall crawlers have a winch.. I was not crapping on anyone, more ppl on this site actually use...

you could use em as talk around I dont care, but thats still duplex.. but ppl gotta turn on flipping the freqs and understand how it works or they wont just go buy a radio, ******** the license and then be using these resources. its a chicken and egg thing, if Midland hadda implement duplex...

yeah but the repeater inputs should be REPEATER inputs, Midland here shouldn't be allowed to these sell simplex radios, even if GMRS that broadcast on em.. if Midland wants to use those freqs, they should be forced duplex IMO. which would mean these simplex radios, even GMRS would have all the...

GMRS allows up to 50W, Detached Antennas, Mobile/Basestations, Family License Sharing, Mythical Repeaters, and was SUPPOSED to have dedicated chunk of Frequencies, they messed up that last part up which kinda screwed the pooch.. Free FRS jackholes took the GMRS Specific frequencies away because...

Nothing like the timeless old winch debate thats been raging for decades now. I dont think OP needs an electric winch for the kinda stuff he claims he's doing.. now each their own, but I learned to wheel without depending on one and think for vast majority of ppl they are just mall crawler...

most of us who work from camp have to scout out and find locations w/a signal, and return later when we're on the clock.. without a booster its really hard to find anything at all but your still at the mercy of telcom infrastructure thats not going to exist at all in BFE.. here in the Rockies I...

from that distance it MIGHT be doable with a high gain directional antenna and some luck that you dont have terrain between you and the tower.. but the problem is the horizon, in order for that cell phone tower to see you 20 miles away over the horizon it would have to be ontop of a 300ft...