Subj : Re: GMRS
To   : Jason Brady
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sun Sep 20 2026 03:18 pm


On Aug 29, 2026 08:47pm, JASON BRADY wrote to ROBERT WOLFE:

  RW>> Actually, it is.  It is:  https://mygmrs.com/repeater/9220

 JB> Near Niagara Falls! Visited a couple of years ago. Pretty
amazing place
 JB> although the parking garage was a bit sketchy.

 JB>  That repeater uses transmit tone 203.5 and receive tone 203.5.
You
 JB>  don't need the receive tone unless there are other repeaters
on the
 JB>  same frequency and you don't want to hear both of them at the
same
 JB>  time. Let's assume you can ignore the receive tone. In this
case I
 JB>  recommend the following settings (for CHIRP but other software
is very
 JB>  similar):

 JB> Loc        Memory channel number
 JB> Frequency  462.550000
 JB> Name       Escarp550 (or whatever you want to call it)
 JB> Tone Mode  Tone (transmit tone only)
 JB> Tone       203.5
 JB> Duplex     +
 JB> Offset     5.000000
 JB> Mode       FM
 JB> Power      High

 JB> In CHIRP if you want to apply both transmit and receive tones,
set Tone
 JB> Mode to TSQL, Tone to transmit tone and ToneSQL to receive
tone.

 JB> Let me know how it goes!

 JB> 73,
 JB> Jason KO6IOJ and WSHL413

 JB> --- FMMS / OpenVMS AXP 8.4-2L1
 JB>  * Origin: Shady Labs (1:218/910)

I have not been able to down;load CHIRP so I wrote my own
progframmer that uses CSV file data to program my UV-5R.  i AM NOT
JUST SURE HOW TO GO ABOUT PROGRAMMING MY RADIOS MANUALLY, SUYCH ASA
SETTINGS LIKE ctcs, ETC.

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