LCARA HAM Radio: Building a GMRS Repeater - Part 1!!!!
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2021
- Disclaimer: This project will be advanced for many people. Please use care and safety, help from local Elmers, when working with electronics and higher voltages. The radios used in this series are not Part 95 certified for GMRS but are used for demonstration purposes. The building of a repeater for VHF or standard UHF with these particular radios would be appropriate. The overall purpose for this series is to see the components and skills needed to build your own repeater.
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We begin the next project, building a GMRS repeater for the Abandoned Repeater Site. KY4BDP presents the planning, logistics and initial build phase of this project.
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And subscribed. I am working on a GMRS repeater as I watch this.
I built my gmrs repeater with these radios also, works great no complaints.
Another great video. I think this series will be very highly watched.
Hope so!
Flippin sweet!
Good info thanks. Got the GMRS bug last year and working on the Ham Tech this year.
Good luck!
very nice pa3crl
Thanks for sharing. I see Buy Two Way radios has a video on the Wouxun KG-1000G GMRS Base/Mobile Two Way Radios and making them into a repeater. The radio itself must be pretty popular as it seems to be on backorder. I am looking forward to the next video in this series.
Those radios do make the process very easy. But they're not cheap. And unless you run two antennas you would still need a duplexer. Thanks for watching!
I was considering building ba GMRS repeater but it looks to be a LOT more work than I expected! I'm a general class ham of 10 years with some hobby electronics background and even I'm intimidated!
We understand your thoughts on this subject. What was awesome about this project was leveraging our Elmer's experience to pull the project together. Take a look at our Deploying a GMRS Repeater video series where we use a repeater from Bridgecom. Our goal with this repeater build was to provide many o the skills and knowledge needed that many clubs have in-house. Thanks for watching!
good video
Glad you enjoyed
I wish we had some in east ky
Great video. I was wondering if you can make a video outlining the steps needed to get a GMRS repeater on the air. Not so much “building” a repeater, but rather the things needed to get a repeater on the air. For example, frequency coordination, do I need to to contact the FCC and somehow register the frequencies I want to use, etc. There are no GMRS repeaters where I live, but we do have a very high mountain that oversees the entire valley of my city. I have some capital where I can just purchase a GMRS repeater, have it tuned, and programmed. But I just don’t know how to go about the other things I mentioned. It seems that there are a lot of people out there setting up repeaters, but never mention the frequency coordination ( if any). Is it that easy to just build a repeater or buy one, and set it up? Any information will be appreciated. Thank you. I do have a GMRS license. I would just like to set one up for the area where I live.
how about doing one featuring the ID - OMATIC IV
Do you have to register a repeater in New York Long Island if so how do I go about doing that I do have my GMrs license
At 4:15 the page says "Scrambler" UT-110 Rolling type scrambler. Are scramblers allowed on GMRS? Or was that for a different application?
These radios are used for Business band mostly. There may be features that are allowed in other applications, but for GMRS, cannot be used. We'll cover programming later in a future episode.
Aren’t radios supposed to be part certified for GMRS? This is something I’ve never understood about building GMRS repeaters from other radios
Why do you need a CW ID because it is not required on GMRS.
@William Lowry - Not required, but this series is showing a process that could be used for a VHF/UHF repeater as well. Thanks for watching!
Nice video evidence to show that the FCC doesn't actually care about radios being type accepted.