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Indiana GMRS repeaters near eastern indiana.
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AFAIK, there are only 22 GMRS channels. Can you perhaps tell the frequency?
FRS/GMRS Combined Channel Chart
As @Hans13 posted, we honestly need to know the frequency or at the very least what radio you have. Different GMRS radios do not have all the channels configured the same.
One possible "GUESS" is you're hearing people on the input of the Greencastle, IN repeater and no, they won't be listening for you. The Greencastle repeater requires permission to use, but again, this is only a guess. We really need either the frequency or the radio you're using to see what "channel 30" is in your radio.
One possible "GUESS" is you're hearing people on the input of the Greencastle, IN repeater and no, they won't be listening for you. The Greencastle repeater requires permission to use, but again, this is only a guess. We really need either the frequency or the radio you're using to see what "channel 30" is in your radio.
The frequency is 462.725 on channel 30 on a tidradio td-h3. And I believe channels, 23 to 30 are for repeaters.
According to Mygmrs.com that's the Greencastle repeater. You'll have to get permission to use that to get the tone to get into it. Showing it has a 40 mile range so that's pretty fair for a GMRS repeater.
myGMRS.com: GMRS Repeater Directory and Community
myGMRS.com is a General Mobile Radio Service community where users can search for and submit repeaters in their area.
During some band openings last summer, several of us actually heard that repeater over here about 35 miles east of St. Louis. That obviously doesn't happen all the time, but it's neat to catch it when the band opens up.
Except Greencastle is not in eastern Indiana. It's in western Indiana.
Welcome to Indiana, the state where "Green" town names are celebrated. Greencastle, Greendale, Greenfield, Greens Fork, Greensboro, Greensburg (with a tree growing out of the courthouse roof), Greentown, Greenville, and Greenwood.
I guess I was going off his reference to Connersville, and Everton. I didn't even pay any attention to the title of the post, just the towns he referenced which are in the coverage of the Greencastle according to the GMRS site. I'm confused now.
So where are you exactly, west or east of Indy?
Ya, I know there's a lot of "GREEN" in that state, used to drive a truck in the late 80's and early 90s and it seemed there sure were a lot of them!
Used to stop at exit 41 on 70 there all the time at that truck stop they had back then at least, was one of my favorite stops going across there.
Connersville is ESE of Indianapolis.
The map of the Greencastle 725 repeater on myGMRS.com doesn't show coverage east of Indianapolis.
The map of the Greencastle 725 repeater on myGMRS.com doesn't show coverage east of Indianapolis.
I am east of indy, in the connersville/ everton area, just south west of Richmond. I'm also down in a valley so i'm wondering if i'm getting a tower with the same frequency that is in Muncie. The reason why I think that is because the valley that I am in runs north and south. So I think it would be a little bit harder to get signal from the green castle tower.
I'll have to look up the towns again, I guess I looked at the map wrong. At any rate, I am not sure at this time what you're hearing on that frequency now.
Also, I'm assuming you're hearing this on your HT with the rubber duck, if it's guys on more powerful mobiles, even radio to radio, they're possibly not going to hear you if they're on more power systems with external antennas. Good luck, sorry I looked at the map wrong, thought I had it sorted out for you.
Have no clue what I thought I was seeing. I guess teach me to look before that 3rd cup of coffee. Thanks for stepping in and setting me straight. 73!
Unfortunately lol yes. With that said, do you guys have any recommendations on a affordable gmrs mobile unit, that is close to 50 watts?
I'd look for a good used Kenwood TK-8180 ($100-200). While it may not be FCC certified for Part 95E, it is a Part 90 radio which should be good enough for GMRS. The programming cable will be about $25 and software will be about $75.
I don't do too much longer range GMRS these days but when I run a mobile it's an OLD OLD Kenwood TK-805 D mobile and a quarter wave whip on the vehicle. It's only 25"ish" watts though. But it's always worked good enough. I do some HT to HT stuff with family but we use commercial radios for that.
Somewhat newer than the 805...I've seen a lot of fellows recommend the 8180. I always liked the 805s cause we could program them, albeit it pretty clumsy, from the front panel. this dates back to the 90s of course. We also used the same radio for makeshift repeater transmitters, and receivers, they honestly worked pretty well for ham stuff also.
While I have no personal experience with them, some of the farmers in our area run some of the Midland GMRS stuff, they seem to like it.
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