Speaker 1: GMRIS linking. Wow. Yeah, we did a video about that
Speaker 1: a while back and spicy comments man, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them did not go in the direction that I
Speaker 1: expected them to check it out. So I made a
Speaker 1: video about the fact that the gentleman who proposed the
Speaker 1: new GMRS channels on VHF low band so around the
Speaker 1: forty five to fifty megaherts between thirty five and forty
Speaker 1: five megahertz banned a low band GMRS low band of VHF.
Speaker 1: The same gentleman who made that proposal to the FCC
Speaker 1: to add new channels to GMRS also made a proposal
Speaker 1: to keep in place the restriction on disallowing GMRS repeaters
Speaker 1: to be linked. In other words, he is against repeater
Speaker 1: linking over the Internet. So I made a video about that,
Speaker 1: made a video about that, and I called it three
Speaker 1: critical risks of GMRS deregulation you must know, And I
Speaker 1: asked during that video, I was like, so what do
Speaker 1: you guys think? I was like, you know what, Generally speaking,
Speaker 1: I'm against the FCC restricting GMRS users and repeater owners
Speaker 1: from doing everything from doing things. I'm against more restrictions. Okay,
Speaker 1: I say, lift as many restrictions as you can just
Speaker 1: get rid of them. Okay, for the most part, that
Speaker 1: sparked some comments, which is great. I really enjoyed the discussion.
Speaker 1: I don't really care which side of the fence you on.
Speaker 1: Thank you for commenting on that video. But I decided
Speaker 1: to make another video about comments from the first video
Speaker 1: because the comments were not going in the direction I
Speaker 1: expected them to. So let's check this out real quick. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're just going to start right here at the bottom,
Speaker 1: and these are pretty much the oldest comments right here,
Speaker 1: and this one right here says the first comment says, now,
Speaker 1: I say yes on being able to link repeaters together,
Speaker 1: and it should be repeater's own responsibility to control it,
Speaker 1: which it already pretty much is. And then this guy,
Speaker 1: the only comment to that, says, yeah, that has worked
Speaker 1: so well with the North Georgia and similar groups, hasn't it?
Speaker 1: Eye roll? Okay, So a few of the comments in
Speaker 1: this video specifically talk about n GGMRS North Georgia GMRS
Speaker 1: group okay, and some other comments talk about I think
Speaker 1: that group but several groups that have put up GMRS
Speaker 1: repeaters and started to charge people to use them. And
Speaker 1: yet another set of comments Another theme of comments I've
Speaker 1: seen is that people are linking multiple GMRS channels together.
Speaker 1: So the theme throughout this video you're watching right now
Speaker 1: is current repeater systems that are still linked even though
Speaker 1: the FCC has come down and said not to link
Speaker 1: them anymore. Pay to play, pay to play on If
Speaker 1: you don't pay, then you're not allowed to use this
Speaker 1: GMRS system. And thirdly, linking multiple repeaters in the same
Speaker 1: metropolitan area metroplex metropolitan area, linking multiple repeaters together into
Speaker 1: the same network using multiple channels. Okay, so those are
Speaker 1: the three things we're gonna talk about today. We'll come
Speaker 1: back to this North Georgia GMRS because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of comments about that. So this guy agreed with me linking,
Speaker 1: and again I mentioned in the video, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I said, generally speaking, I prefer that we are allowed
Speaker 1: to link GMRS repeaters together, and this guy came along
Speaker 1: linking should be allowed. If they are freaked out about
Speaker 1: too many link repeaters in congestion, put a cap on
Speaker 1: it similar to the maxi number of mestastic note hops.
Speaker 1: I believe there are more positive aspects when LINKDN GMRS
Speaker 1: prator repeaters than any theoretical negative aspects. Repeater operators should
Speaker 1: be allowed that option, even if that is limited to
Speaker 1: a few channels. I also think it is very poor
Speaker 1: argument against repeter linking the arguments that were made against
Speaker 1: linking in the previous videos. What he's referring to, I
Speaker 1: think you can still link repeater's question mark. I know,
Speaker 1: I know that's a pet peeve of mine and most
Speaker 1: of people. Most people don't probably read it that way,
Speaker 1: but this guy is asking me what he thinks because
Speaker 1: he put a question mark at the end of a statement.
Speaker 1: Moving on, okay, GMRS only has eight frequencies. We have
Speaker 1: a guy who has several repeaters using different channels in
Speaker 1: very high places and basically started interfering with other repeaters
Speaker 1: in the same channel. There was a complaint by several
Speaker 1: repeater owners and we have told him to stop by
Speaker 1: the FCC. On personal note, I have zero interest to
Speaker 1: conversations one hundred miles away, okay. Conversations one hundred miles
Speaker 1: away okay. And I did a quick search just to clarify,
Speaker 1: just to confirm. I was like, hey, groc, because AI
Speaker 1: is the answer to everything, right, what is the purpose
Speaker 1: of GMRS radio? Right there? And GROX says the main
Speaker 1: purpose GMRS is to enable personal and family communications without
Speaker 1: relying on sollular networks, especially in remote off gride areas.
Speaker 1: It fills a gap between unlicensed FRS radios short range
Speaker 1: low power and amateur HAM radio, which requires testing. Unlike FRS,
Speaker 1: GMRS requires a simple tenere licensed thirty five dollars feeno
Speaker 1: exam that covers the license holder and their immediate film,
Speaker 1: making it accessible for use. But let's not listen to GROC.
Speaker 1: Let's not listen to AI. Let's go over here to Wikipedia,
Speaker 1: which GROC just pulls from multiple websites, and it will
Speaker 1: tell you which websites is pulling form Wikipedia. General Mobile
Speaker 1: Radio Service Land Mobile FM, UHF radio service designed for
Speaker 1: short range to a radio voice communication voice communications. Some
Speaker 1: people have mentioned APRS. Some people have mentioned digital keyboard
Speaker 1: to keyboard designed for short range to a voice communication
Speaker 1: and authorized under Part ninety five US USFCC Code. It
Speaker 1: requires a license in the United States, but some GMRS
Speaker 1: compatible equipment can be use the license free in Canada.
Speaker 1: The US GMRIS license iss for period to ten years.
Speaker 1: United States permits the use by adult individuals who possess
Speaker 1: a license, as well as their immediate family members immediate
Speaker 1: relatives gmrs. GMRS radios are typically handheld portables, much like FRS.
Speaker 1: Gm RISK licenses are allowed to establish repeaters to extend
Speaker 1: their communication range. However, RepA cannot be linked together over
Speaker 1: the Internet nor connected to the public switch telephone network.
Speaker 1: So somebody got on Wikipedia and made some updates. So good.
Speaker 1: So it does say in the FCC documents that GMRS
Speaker 1: is meant for localized, localized traffic where cell networks might
Speaker 1: be spotty or not exist at all. It doesn't say
Speaker 1: anything now if you dig down into it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read the entire part ninety five
Speaker 1: document right now, but I can link it in the description.
Speaker 1: Blow you guys, let me know what you think. One
Speaker 1: of the themes another one of the things. One of
Speaker 1: the subset themes in this comment section of this last
Speaker 1: video I made was MCom Emergency Communications, and GMRS was
Speaker 1: not really ever made for MCom. Sure you can use it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we shouldn't use it for that, okay,
Speaker 1: But a lot of people are coming along saying we
Speaker 1: should allow linking. We should do this because during emergency situations,
Speaker 1: gmrs can or can't be used for this, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: not really what it was meant for, not really what
Speaker 1: it was not meant to do, skyworn or storm chasing,
Speaker 1: weather spotting. National Weather Service doesn't get on gmrs and
Speaker 1: use GMRS to communicate with spotters, not to my knowledge.
Speaker 1: If that happens in your area, please comment blow I'd
Speaker 1: like to know about it. I'd like to do a
Speaker 1: whole other video on that topic, but suffice it to say,
Speaker 1: this is not one of the things that they really
Speaker 1: originally sought to do with gmrs. So maybe that could
Speaker 1: be another video. GMRS as MCom and see what we're
Speaker 1: talking about there. Well, let's move on to the three
Speaker 1: themes of this video. I have to agree with you.
Speaker 1: I live in a national radio quiet zone. Okay. I
Speaker 1: like the idea of link repeaters. There used to be
Speaker 1: a DMR repeater for GMRS in Pennsylvania, but it was
Speaker 1: an experimental repeater. Some people have talked about DMR on GMRS. Okay,
Speaker 1: I am for linking and the use of things like
Speaker 1: Zelo to connect to Okay, not really what we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. Here in Los Angeles, there are two repeaters
Speaker 1: that use the RPT six hundred, but with different tones.
Speaker 1: One of them always bleeds into the other. I think
Speaker 1: it's running one hundred watts. Okay, do you think the
Speaker 1: FCC comes up with VHF frequencies that the price of
Speaker 1: the radios can increase? Possibly? Yeah, possibly? Okay, here we
Speaker 1: go here, so everybody up until now, up until now,
Speaker 1: I said, yah, yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree linking
Speaker 1: should be allowed. Okay, so let's take a let's let's
Speaker 1: take a small turn here. No to linking. I operate
Speaker 1: three GMRIS peeters in different areas with only eight pairs.
Speaker 1: Linking different pairs hogs limited resources. If someone linked multiple
Speaker 1: machines on one frequency pair and used a voter and
Speaker 1: remote receivers, then that would be less of a problem.
Speaker 1: That is true. So one theme that I found is
Speaker 1: that people in fact, during the premiere video, somebody was
Speaker 1: talking about how somebody in their area had linked multiple
Speaker 1: channels together. There are sixteen visual frequencies that make up
Speaker 1: eight repeater channels. I support the ability that we have
Speaker 1: the ability to link repeaters, but as you said, linking
Speaker 1: GMRIS reators will require FCC to designate certain channels for linking. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe wrongly disagree There are not enough GMRS duplex channels
Speaker 1: to support it. Your idea to designate a couple of
Speaker 1: GMRS channels for link is the best idea I've heard.
Speaker 1: I said that in the last video, So I said,
Speaker 1: so here's the thing, Okay, I said, I was going
Speaker 1: to talk about three themes today. Number one multiple channels.
Speaker 1: So during the premiere video of this last video that
Speaker 1: we were watching, one guy came along and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: this shouldn't be allowed, because when it was allowed, someone
Speaker 1: in my area had all eight channels linked together. So
Speaker 1: there's eight designated GMRS repeater channels, and you can use
Speaker 1: those same frequencies as simplex, but there are offset five
Speaker 1: megger Hurts offsets for the repeater channels. And I don't
Speaker 1: know about you guys, but I live in Dallas Fort Worth,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty big metropolitan area. There are places bigger.
Speaker 1: Houston Metro is bigger than US, Atlanta, you know, New
Speaker 1: York City, of course, La San Francisco. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: don't live in the biggest metropolitan area in the United States,
Speaker 1: but I don't live in the sticks either. Okay. We
Speaker 1: have like four GMRS repeaters throughout Dallas Fort Worth there
Speaker 1: used to be two in Dallas. There was one in
Speaker 1: Fort Worth, one in Bedford, maybe one in Arlington. And
Speaker 1: these are not really close by to one another, okay,
Speaker 1: But in the major city of Dallas, the largest city
Speaker 1: in this area, there was only like two maybe three
Speaker 1: ever at one time. So you would need someone to
Speaker 1: set up a link and have a repeater on like
Speaker 1: channel eighteen and another repeater on channel nineteen, another repeater
Speaker 1: on channel twenty and link all of those repeaters in
Speaker 1: the same system. So I had said on my last videos,
Speaker 1: like how about designating like a single channel or a
Speaker 1: couple channels? Channel twenty one and channel twenty two. Just
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, those are link channels.
Speaker 1: Everything else is just for standalone repeater traffic. That would
Speaker 1: be okay. That would eliminate the problem with linking. Linking
Speaker 1: channels together anyway, I have never seen even when linking
Speaker 1: was allowed. We had one repeater in Dallas that was
Speaker 1: linked into a Texas system. We did a net. I
Speaker 1: say we I checked into it like twice, didn't I
Speaker 1: wouldn't part of the net. They did a net once
Speaker 1: a week. I want to say it was on WENSDA.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. About the date though, But they
Speaker 1: would do a net and we would talk to other
Speaker 1: GMRS users throughout the state of Texas, and that where
Speaker 1: I thought that worked well? Okay, but it was just
Speaker 1: one channel. It was one channel on one repeater in
Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth area, and you had to tune
Speaker 1: over to that channel to get into it. Where in
Speaker 1: the world are there enough GMRIS repeaters put up where
Speaker 1: every channel is being connected to a link system and
Speaker 1: they're all so close together to one another that you
Speaker 1: can't turn your radio doll without hearing the same traffic
Speaker 1: on all eight GMRS repeater channels. Where does that happen?
Speaker 1: If that's happening, then one of two things is happening.
Speaker 1: Either one GMRS repeater owners are ignorant. In other words,
Speaker 1: they don't know. They don't know that they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing this. Okay. Why would you put up repeater on
Speaker 1: channel eighteen and link it into a system when there's
Speaker 1: a repeater two to five to ten miles from you
Speaker 1: on channel nineteen that's already the same part of that system. Okay.
Speaker 1: Are we looking at sad Ham's here, because that's something
Speaker 1: a sad Haam would do. Why I'm not using that repeater.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put up my own repeater and then just
Speaker 1: do the same thing over again. That's stupid. That's stupid.
Speaker 1: Anyone who's doing that is dumb. Okay, Now it could
Speaker 1: be that they just don't Maybe they don't know, but
Speaker 1: how would you not know If a common user can
Speaker 1: get on GMRS and tune through all eight repeater channels
Speaker 1: and hear the same exact traffic linked traffic on all
Speaker 1: eight repeater channels, I've never heard of such a thing
Speaker 1: before making this video last time, I've never heard of
Speaker 1: such a thing before reading that in the comments section,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that, and I've never experienced that
Speaker 1: because I've driven around with my GMRS radio, scanning through
Speaker 1: the channels well on road trips and talking on repeaters
Speaker 1: here in the Dallas Fort Worth area, and I've never
Speaker 1: seen that before ever at all. Thanks for the video, Jason.
Speaker 1: Just by the nature of only eight channels, if linking
Speaker 1: becomes a big thing, those channels could be very very busy.
Speaker 1: Note to linking for me as well. If the FCC
Speaker 1: wants to add a few channels of why linking, than
Speaker 1: good yep. GMRS Repeater Lincoln should be absolutely be allowed
Speaker 1: just like HAM repeaters. See this is the comments that
Speaker 1: I was expecting to see on this video. I own
Speaker 1: and operate community gm rsipater and often collaborate with my
Speaker 1: local HAM GMRS repeater owners to ensure no interference by
Speaker 1: existing gm RS peters and expand our radio coverage areas responsibly.
Speaker 1: We learned anything for the events of western North Carolina
Speaker 1: during Hurricane Lean is that any communications? But if it's
Speaker 1: all when it is needed the most. Giving the ability
Speaker 1: for families, not just individual operators to talk to others
Speaker 1: family members outside the area should be an FCC priority.
Speaker 1: That is an FCC priority for hams, but not gmrs, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't really think GMRS was ever
Speaker 1: really supposed to be used for InCom I would love
Speaker 1: someone to point out an article where that's wrong. And
Speaker 1: again I haven't read through the entire document in part
Speaker 1: ninety five, so maybe it's in there somewhere. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Maybe I should read that. I've read pieces of the document,
Speaker 1: but not the entirety thing. Now, all this talk of
Speaker 1: what you can and can't do and all these restricts,
Speaker 1: is all this limited bandwidth on gmrs. Yes, that's true,
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Speaker 1: of these things that GMS is trying to do but
Speaker 1: was never designed for. In New Jersey, we have some
Speaker 1: large linked repeater systems. This was written eight days ago.
Speaker 1: At the time of this recording, you still have this, Okay,
Speaker 1: One in particular has been trying to monopolize itnopolize Dot
Speaker 1: six hundred for years. They are now spreading to other pairs.
Speaker 1: It is a huge problem as they have areas where
Speaker 1: they're stepping where they are stepping on everyone. You can't
Speaker 1: even use GMRS in some of these areas. The FCC
Speaker 1: does not have the bandwidth to police this. GMRS has
Speaker 1: become the very bottom of the priority. As you said,
Speaker 1: all of this can be done on the handbands. My
Speaker 1: opinion after seeing firsthand what happens, is that they should
Speaker 1: not allow linking in gmrs, keep up the handbands. There's
Speaker 1: no reason that these folks want to build a link
Speaker 1: repeater system and what he and someone comes along and
Speaker 1: asks what repeater system is this exactly referring to Jcaes
Speaker 1: thinking more of the lines of blue coom interesting, okay
Speaker 1: here it is okay, so here this is one of
Speaker 1: the themes I said. We were going to talk about
Speaker 1: three different things, linked channels, which I mentioned that a
Speaker 1: minute ago, pay to play, and which systems are currently
Speaker 1: linked together. So we talked about this one in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Who knows about the North or the North Georgia GMRIS
Speaker 1: system which apparently is still linked together, and who knows
Speaker 1: about this one in New Jersey? There is a group
Speaker 1: here that has all eight pairs tied up, linked and
Speaker 1: paid to play, enforced the rules you have before you
Speaker 1: make more rules. And again I replied, and I said,
Speaker 1: it is stupid to link all eight frequencies together. Jason.
Speaker 1: But Jason, you told me in the live chat that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I've never seen it happen. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that happen. Where is this guy? There is a group here,
Speaker 1: he doesn't say where he is. Where are you that
Speaker 1: you are linking channels together? Okay, let me explain something.
Speaker 1: Linking repeaters together and linking channels together is not the
Speaker 1: same thing. Okay, Yeah, you can do it, Sure you can. Okay.
Speaker 1: Linking repeaters together means I have one in Dallas, I
Speaker 1: have one in Houston. There's one in Oklahoma City. There's
Speaker 1: one in uh Elpaso. There's one in Atlanta, there's one
Speaker 1: in Podunk, Arkansas. And these are all linked together. They
Speaker 1: may be on different channels, but there's one in the
Speaker 1: Dallas area on Channel twenty or whatever channel, and all
Speaker 1: the other channels are free and not linked into the system.
Speaker 1: So what people were saying in the premiere comments of
Speaker 1: that video were that there were people in a certain
Speaker 1: area all in the same area, all the same and
Speaker 1: I didn't really get the area. So where is this happening? Okay,
Speaker 1: there are people in the same area linking eight repeaters together,
Speaker 1: each eight repeater, each of the eight repeaters is on
Speaker 1: a separate channel, and they're all tied into the same system.
Speaker 1: That's dumb. Why would you do that? Why would anyone
Speaker 1: do that? I hesitate to believe that actually exists. Number one,
Speaker 1: I hesitate. Please. People have a way of exaggerating, especially
Speaker 1: in YouTube comments. I have a way of exaggerating. But
Speaker 1: maybe it is. I'm not saying it's it's not impossible.
Speaker 1: But who does that? Again, I live in a huge
Speaker 1: metropolitan area and I've never seen anything like that happened.
Speaker 1: Who does that? And that's what they're talking about right
Speaker 1: here in this comment. There is a group here that
Speaker 1: lists all eight repeaters tied up, linked and pay to play.
Speaker 1: I said, it is stupid to link all eight frequencies together.
Speaker 1: But Jason, you told me that doesn't happen. You told
Speaker 1: me in the live chat that doesn't happen. I said it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. I did say that. I did say that
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen because I've never seen it happen, okay,
Speaker 1: and I would think that people are smart enough to
Speaker 1: understand the difference. The North Georgia GMRS group is doing
Speaker 1: it as well. Indian somebody says, Indianapolis, question of Mark.
Speaker 1: There's a group here that's tied up four pairs linked
Speaker 1: and pay to play, but they won't even respond to
Speaker 1: request to pay them, Not that I was going to
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, that's interferenced. Yeah, how are
Speaker 1: they pay to play? It? Just top on them? What's
Speaker 1: the barrier? Yep? Look up North Georgia GMRS group. Pretty
Speaker 1: ugly stuff. Okay, I'm gonna have to look that up
Speaker 1: and do some reading on that because that's one of
Speaker 1: the link systems that is apparently still together. I've tried
Speaker 1: all the pl tones, they're using dcs. There's a lot
Speaker 1: more to go through. One day, I'll give it a whirl,
Speaker 1: all right, So once again, what who is doing that?
Speaker 1: Who is doing this? Who is linking multiple channels together?
Speaker 1: So as a general rule, I don't I don't like
Speaker 1: the FCC giving us more rules and regulations, but perhaps
Speaker 1: since there are only eight repeater channels, perhaps they should say, okay,
Speaker 1: you want to link doing on channels twenty one twenty two.
Speaker 1: But that's all, and don't do it anywhere else because
Speaker 1: apparently people like this can't be trusted to actually put
Speaker 1: together systems that work for everyone also pay to play.
Speaker 1: What is up with that? What? Yeah, GMRS reputers are
Speaker 1: open to everybody. They're open to everybody. Now. There is
Speaker 1: such a thing as a closed repeater system in ham radio, okay,
Speaker 1: but it's not closed like you have to pay to
Speaker 1: be here. It's usually like a close to a group
Speaker 1: or a club or a group or somebody who has
Speaker 1: a closed repeater pair, and there's not really anything any
Speaker 1: way they can enforce it, other than to just jump
Speaker 1: on there and say, hey guys, this is a closed repeater.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, well move off. I was talking to
Speaker 1: a friend on a closed repeater one time. We didn't
Speaker 1: know it was a closed repeater. It was listed as
Speaker 1: in repeater book as an open repeater. So we are
Speaker 1: talking on it for probably twenty or thirty minutes, and
Speaker 1: some guy gets on there and says, hey, guys, this
Speaker 1: is a closed repeater. Oh okay, and we moved off,
Speaker 1: no problem. I found out like a year later that
Speaker 1: that guy was wrong nobody's talking about because that was
Speaker 1: not a closed repeater system. But even closed repeater system
Speaker 1: and HAM Radio is not pay to play. We don't
Speaker 1: have to pay for that. Sometimes, I guess in theory
Speaker 1: you could. You could say only club members can use it,
Speaker 1: and you have to pay to join the club. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool, but it's not like a it's not like
Speaker 1: like you're getting a lot of other stuff by joining
Speaker 1: the club. Then just the repeater system, it's not a
Speaker 1: paid repeater system specifically and individually. I don't think paid
Speaker 1: repeater systems should exist in GMRS. GMRS is the General
Speaker 1: Mobile Radio Service. I don't think there should be any
Speaker 1: paid systems at all. You don't want to spend money
Speaker 1: put up a repeater, don't do it, No one's forcing
Speaker 1: you to. You want to put up a repeater, start
Speaker 1: charging people before I get a commercial pair. That's what
Speaker 1: commercial pairs are for. Okay, don't do that. So I
Speaker 1: don't think I think that should be disallowed. I think
Speaker 1: a pay to play system pretty much everywhere should be disallowed. Okay.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's going on with these guys
Speaker 1: that where they claim in these comments more than one
Speaker 1: place that they're linking multiple channels together. Who's doing that?
Speaker 1: Who's linking multiple channels together? And why would you do that?
Speaker 1: And that this is dumb. That's just really, really really dumb. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's one right here, look up n GGMRS North Georgia
Speaker 1: gm RS. They step on everyone across nearly four states
Speaker 1: with their linking. I'd be okay if they had a
Speaker 1: larger bandwidth, so I've dedicated TRX frequencies for repeaters, it'd
Speaker 1: be okay. You do have the option to use one
Speaker 1: of the other seven repeater channels that are not being
Speaker 1: covered in your area. There are other channels you can use.
Speaker 1: I don't think people are replying to you realize exactly
Speaker 1: how many repeaters these guys have spread out across all
Speaker 1: the South. All eight channels are theirs where I live
Speaker 1: NGGM and they're monopoly on the frequencies. Is why I
Speaker 1: don't get a GMRS license. I'm not paying a guy
Speaker 1: ninety dollars to hear his talk to his friend. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this guy's so apparently he's claiming this guy's pay
Speaker 1: to play. This North Georgia GMRS repeater system is pay
Speaker 1: to play, and they've got so many repeaters tied up
Speaker 1: that it is going across. But again, you know here
Speaker 1: talking about I guess you're probably talking about repeaters on
Speaker 1: top of a mountain range, okay, and bleeding over into
Speaker 1: four states. Okay, But why would you tie all eight
Speaker 1: channels together? You want to monopoly? Why would you want
Speaker 1: to monopoly? These are these guys. For all the talk
Speaker 1: about I get in all the comments, all the talking
Speaker 1: comments I get about sad Hams, that's what these guys
Speaker 1: are doing. These guys are acting like sad Hams. They
Speaker 1: want to tie up GMRS repeaters and make them far
Speaker 1: reaching and time all together on all the different eight channels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that should be discillt Yeah, so FCC should go after
Speaker 1: those guys. Maybe we'll do another video about North Georgia GMRS.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see some comments in the video, in
Speaker 1: the in the in this video below about North Georgia
Speaker 1: GMRS group, and I'll go look them up and do
Speaker 1: some reading on them as well. But I think the
Speaker 1: best solution to this link because I was getting I
Speaker 1: was getting some positive saying yeah, yeah, yeah, linking should
Speaker 1: be allowed. Linking should be allowed, But once it becomes
Speaker 1: a monopoly like what's being described here by some people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that, so so I think there
Speaker 1: needs to be some compromise. Okay. Number one, I don't
Speaker 1: think pay to place should be a thing. You should
Speaker 1: not be able. You should not be able to legally
Speaker 1: allowed to charge people to talk on GMRS because GMRS
Speaker 1: is a limited number of channels and it is open
Speaker 1: to everybody. You don't own that frequency, so that pay
Speaker 1: to place should not be a thing. You say, well,
Speaker 1: but I bought the repeater. Well, nobody forced you to
Speaker 1: buy the repeater system. You don't like it, go sell
Speaker 1: the repeater or get your money back. It's not your frequency.
Speaker 1: If you want to tie up your own frequency and
Speaker 1: pay and charge other people to use it, get a
Speaker 1: commercial frequency pair. That's what they're for. Then you do
Speaker 1: anything you want to do, all the data you want to,
Speaker 1: You do CW, you do digital digital voice modes, you
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Encryption, you'd all the encryption you
Speaker 1: want to on a commercial prayer. Okay, but GMRS is
Speaker 1: for everybody, and you shouldn't be able to monopolize a
Speaker 1: number one. Number two, how are these link systems still together?
Speaker 1: I mean the FCC, Whether you agree with it or not.
Speaker 1: The FCC came down several months ago earlier this year
Speaker 1: and said linking is not allowed, and as of today,
Speaker 1: linking is still not allowed. So why are these systems
Speaker 1: still being linked together? And number three, anyone who is
Speaker 1: ignorant enough to tie up all eight repeater channels in
Speaker 1: an area. Now, if you wanted to put up eight
Speaker 1: repeaters across your state and make them all on channel
Speaker 1: twenty and link them together across your state, cool. That
Speaker 1: means wherever everywhere you go in your state, you can
Speaker 1: kee up Channel twenty and they'll be linked into every
Speaker 1: other repeater on Channel twenty in your state. That would
Speaker 1: be a good use of GMRS linking. That would be
Speaker 1: a great use of GMRS repeater linking. Excellent, very good.
Speaker 1: But it's all on channel twenty or whatever designate channel.
Speaker 1: So maybe the answer here is for the FCC to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can link, but you have to do it on
Speaker 1: this channel, on these two channels and nowhere else. And
Speaker 1: of course they would have to enforce that apparently, unlike
Speaker 1: they are enforcing North North Georgia GMRS group and maybe
Speaker 1: one in New Jersey that someone mentioned also, So I
Speaker 1: don't know let's kick the hornet's nest and see what happens. Guys,
Speaker 1: put your comments below, love to know what you think.
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Speaker 1: without any regular except for charging. Except for charging, No,
Speaker 1: can't charge. It's an open system. Seventy three guys put
Speaker 1: your comments below. Love to know what you think and
Speaker 1: we will catch you next time.