QPLou5645187
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What an excellent and encouraging response for all of us that are new and trying to learn from all of you that have been in the business for a long time. I sure hope not everyone on this site shares the same attitude as you!
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Baofeng New Baofeng HT Problem
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He did share that radios can be hard to programing you don't know what the settings means. Otherwise the Baofengs aren't any more difficult than one of the other brands. So the "oldtimers" are sharing that knowledge with the "newbies". Stick around...you can contribute too.
QPLou5645187
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I took it totally out of context then and I will apologize for my harsh response. It just caught me off guard and to me it seemed inflammatory instead of trying to be helpful. I'm so very overwhelmed right now I don't know what to think. Just when I think that I getting somewhere, a curve ball comes my way and it's frustrating. There's so much to learn and so little time!
mmckenna
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You've been here 24 hours. Pace yourself.
Some of us have been in the two way radio industry for decades. We're still learning.
QPLou5645187
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Thank You for keeping me grounded! I lose sight of big picture sometimes!
Take a deep breath go downtown and do the River Walk and relax.
Ok, I’ve read all this and I go back to my original post concerning programming in one or two local police or fire frequencies to see how they work after reading the manual. This should take just a few minutes. Have you done this? Then as mentioned proceed to Chirp for setting up more.
No, this hobby is not simple and requires time and much patience. It is not for everyone. As you say, you are overwhelmed and frustrated which I understand. However, life is too short to continue this if it causes ongoing frustration.
Please do not take this the wrong way, but you may find this is not for you.
Many here have given good advice but you mainly have to assess the reasons you really want to pursue this. I hope you do since the ultimate goal is happiness but do not let it stress you.
No, this hobby is not simple and requires time and much patience. It is not for everyone. As you say, you are overwhelmed and frustrated which I understand. However, life is too short to continue this if it causes ongoing frustration.
Please do not take this the wrong way, but you may find this is not for you.
Many here have given good advice but you mainly have to assess the reasons you really want to pursue this. I hope you do since the ultimate goal is happiness but do not let it stress you.
Thread 'Why Your Hobbies Matter - Benefits of the radio monitoring hobby.'
Why Your Hobbies Matter - Benefits of the radio monitoring hobby.
You might want to take a look at this.
Why Your Hobbies Matter - Benefits of the radio monitoring hobby.
You might want to take a look at this.
FKimble
Member
And do not program in any tones. They are only needed when talking to the repeater. You don't need them for listening only.
ecps92
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Not True, if listening to a FB4/FB6 licensed repeater with multiple business' Ops or even a simplex Itinerant/Business band where you have 6 different stores at a Mall each with it's own PL or DPL
FKimble
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So a freq with a tone programed will only receive transmissions with that tone. With out a tone you will receive all transmissions on that freq regardless of tone, would you not? Do those repeaters have one input freq and different output frequencies depending on input tone? If so you need each output freq programed in with or without tone right?
Frank
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nd5y
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Correct.
A community repeater has a controller that allows multiple PL tones or DCS codes or both. There is still only one input frequency and one output frequency. Only one user can talk at a time. All the tones do is prevent the user groups from having to listen to eachother.
Back before trunking was common there were a lot of UHF community repeaters and a lot more users on low band and high band simplex business frequencies. The users were supposed to disable their receive tone and make sure the repeater (or simplex channel) was not in use before talking. The mobile radios usually had a switch or contact in the microphone hanger so when you pick up the mic it disabled the PL or DCS decode and allowed the users to hear other users and not interfere with them.
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