I've read the manual but nothing in the instructions make me laugh, so I'm just gonna keep watching your content for the Info and the chuckles!

Unleash the sad hams

Have watched so many of your videos over the last 2 weeks my wife recognized your voice.😂 Just bought my first radio 3 days ago and received my GMRS license yesterday. Thank you sir.

I thank you for your teachings. I will patiently await my certificate to hang on my refrigerator so that I may prove to my family that I am not a loser.

I have learned a lot from you and mainly cause you don’t bore me. . Thanks.

Great video. Even after a year or so programming these I catch myself second guessing some of the things you covered. Thanks for the quick reference video.

Thank you for making it easier to digest this information. Keep it coming!

I stumble on you channel a few years ago and you explained how you setup your first repeater. You made it simply easy set one up pretty much like you first one out of KG 1000's works heart and I thank you for sharing you knowledge.

Thank you! Absolutely loved your instructions. I will now stop looking at my new GMRS radio, stroking it and marveling at it and I will now USE it!! Thanks again.

You are definitely one of a kind Randy....please don’t change...😎

Best how to I've seen on repeaters hands-down!

Watched a lot of your videos. Thanks for your time and great content to help us Noobies on gmrs topics

Thank you for this video!! I'm connected to a repeater!! YeeeHaw! All of your videos are super informative!! I'm now a legit Dork! Pretty cool stuff! Keep up the good work!!

Randy I noticed a lack of a wrist strap on the WOUXON. As you are well aware, this violates FCC regulations.

This video is great to put on repeat.

I was already a GMRS Repeater expert before your training session as I had stayed at a HOLIDAY INN a few decades back and am certified expert in all fields now!

LOL..... this channel is GOLD! Best of youtube!

The BEST video on this Thanks!

This is great. I got baofeng ham and after watching you I have a couple of gmrs ones coming even got a lic. I’m gonna set em up. I’m in the valley doubt I’ll hit anything but will be good for when I’m out.

Thank you for explaining this

I just got myself another KZfaq certification. Thanks Randy..!

As always, a useful and helpful video! One thing I have never understood, is the repeater owners who require a tone to access the repeater (actually a smart thing), but somehow lacked that extra thirty seconds it would have taken them to program that tone on the output so that end users can set their tone decoders (on receive) and keep noise and other stations from opening their squelch and annoying them while monitoring that repeater. Seriously? Then there are the owners who set their repeaters so that there is zero hang time. Hang time is that brief time after you, or anyone else using the repeater, unkeys their PTT and the repeater keeps transmitting. Most repeaters have 1 to 3 seconds of hang time. Hang time allows you to 1) know that you hit the repeater, and 2) judge about how strong the repeater is reaching your radio and relatively speaking, how you might be hitting the repeater. One well-known GMRS dealer I know of went to the trouble and expense of setting up a repeater. For reasons known only to them, they did not program it to encode a tone on the output. Worse still, they did not have any hang time at all on the repeater. People would drive into the area, try to use the repeater, and hear nothing. They either assumed they were not in range or that the repeater was down. I don't know if they were playing a stupid game with their end-users and customers or they just didn't know any better. I will say such sloppy programming would make me unlikely to buy a repeater from them or have them program a repeater for me.

WRJZ930 just listening from Reno,Nevada station,signing on and standing by…73

My favorite You Tuber...

Outstanding

Thank you I now understand 48% more than I did before watching this video.

Thanks for another easy to watch video.

Great video. Appreciate your content!!!

Thanks for the Great Info.

Thanks a ton for the info on the RX tone! I received access to a repeater and (before watching this very video), put the same tone in for TX and RX. I requested a repeater check and heard no reply. I have since de-confuckulated my programming error and now have crystal clear, 2-way capability of said repeater....!

Super helpful Info

Thank you!!

"Some people" need an app to read as they no longer can do anything without an app to do it for them, but you did your best Randy and that is all anyone can do in this age of stupidity! The age of stupidity is much like the "dark ages" of long ago, what goes around comes around.

We are the same age. 62 in July. Very cool. I have st purchased my license and waiting on the FCC to send me the call sign and then I'm going to order a radio. I will need to know how to connect to a repeater. We have a few about 50 miles from me and 40 miles in another direction. Open Repeaters are listed near me close enough I should be able to do so. Tha ks Randy.

🤣🤣🤣🤣thx steve i have a radio that NAR says i'm wasting my time trying to program so i was leaving BUT, i saw your bashful complaint and though you weren't amusing the replies from the unbashful subscribed are hilarious SOOO! thx steve for the laughs i had, not from you but because of you thanks!!! Steve! I'm off now to rub my UV 5r on a body part so as to find a use for it!

More ! Please 😊

Awesome video Thanks

My family will be so proud of me when they see my new certificate from you.

I had a thought this morning that made me laugh. Your content should be download and archived in the event of an apocalypse. Imagine a class full of children being educated by your videos😂😂 the future world would be a much funnier place😂😂😂

Funny and informative. Thanks.

Thanks

Thank You

Thanks!

Randy , since I have a UV-5R Ham radio. Like you said I'll go treat my self with a frosty Ice cone. Needless to say , I find your videos very interesting and educational. That I'll watch your video with a frosty treat and learn something new. Thank you and God Bless.

Thank you for another great video. I’ll be waiting for my certificate 😂

Famous quote..."I am an Engineer! I do not need to read directions."

You make this shit easy. Thank you

👍👍👍 Thanks. ...Alan in 🇨🇱

Love your videos man! thanks for KISS version on all your videos. Now, where is my certificate :>)

Best hand modeling on the internets

The neurotically chewed pencil was perfect! It's the little things you put in your videos that so often push them completely over the top.🤣

Heeeeeyyyyyy.... this guy knows when to use "supposably" and "supposedly" in their correct context. Nice.

Thanks! I have a PhD in Chemistry and am always looking for the simplest explanation.

Nice Flag, need one with a field of stars in upper corner.

Love the Tshirt 😂

Got it!

Thank you for your videos - you take what can be a very dry topic and make it fun. My wife has become even more interested in radios now than me. As for this video, can you advise how to set up a repeater when the Tone in/out is just listed as HZ without a DPL or CTCSS code? Please see the Bucks 550 repeater in PA for the example I'm looking at. Thanks again!

🇺🇸Good Vid Randy👍Roger Dee Cup-O -Tee Good Buddy By Golly for Sure.

This video causes spurious emissions 🐸👍

Our local GMRS repeater (in the West Ga. Area) is privately owned. And I think it states it is open for public use. I think he prefers users to join His Club, pay a hefty users fee! But I think this club owns multple repeaters, all linked up for an almost statewide system! So I do see why there is a hefty fee.

The local repeater group I'm a part of, has a linked repeater system, it reaches as far southwest as Florida. Not bad for a GMRS repeater. I have to pay $35 a year, but that's reasonable, I don't mind paying it to help maintain the repeater.

PLEASE!!!! Now make a video on how to program a REPEATER

I filled the condom but my wife said no. Still shopping for that mobile radio though. I found a video where you said you were using a motorola xts5000, but no explanation as to what attracted you to that one. Seems like the KG 1000G does all the things, so I assume I missed something. Thanks for this one. Entertainment as always.

New to gmrs would like to see a video on programing a uv-9g for repeaters.

No GMRS repeaters nearby, but I'm still here for the T-shirt and background screen. ... And I might accidentally learn something.

I printed my certificate and put it in the passenger window of my Buick. That way, when I park sideways at Walmart and take up two handicapped spots, people can see it more clearly and they will respect me.

Great video! Where can I purchase the radio? It is not on your equipment list. Thank you. Keep up the great work.

Just to add confusion, the DCS tones are either 'N' *normal* or 'I' *Inverted*. I discovered on my Wouxon KG805G that only the 'I' tones are available in the radio menu. Enabling the use of the 'N' tones required using the factory software and a programming cable. Just FYI.

I learn something and Laugh my a$$ off at the same time.

Reading is FUNdamental

Hi!!

lmao, you are a serious horn dog...'tranceive and receivvvvvve' ;)~ = confukulation. My headset on, and others watching me laugh!

I expected to be taught how to program a repeater from my radio, as the video promised. But nope. I didn’t hear anything that would let me do that. I will still need to drag a laptop and programming cable out to the repeater and program it with software the regular way. Would love to be able to do that work from the radio. Maybe someday.

I have learned a lot from your videos and I thank you for your service. However I have a question about radio selection? You said that you must have a GMRS radio to be able to program in a repeater. I have a Radioddity GS-5B and a Radtel RT470 both radios have the tone settings that you speak of. If I cannot use these radios on a GMRS repeater. Then why can they be programmed to use on a GMRS repeater?

I think you are explaining this to people who already know how to do it

Shib nu to the 🌝🌙🌝🌝 i got uv 5 r 😊🎉 got my call sign too hello from Oregon 😊

"Frosty Jim..." 😆😆😆

Thanks for the video, def it helps. Im trying to set up GMRS repeater on Baofeng uv 5G, local repeater info 462.725 MHz Frequency 241.8 Hz Input Tone 192.8 Hz Output Tone Could you do video on the set up for this, on a UV 5G. I am almost there I think. Im getting the. " kick back " when I key the mike, but verbal is not coming through. I think offset is wrong maybe ?

Not cool, Rando the most intellectual repeater rasta. Mom won't let me put any more certificates on the refrigerator. I was hoping for a bangle to attach to my radio wrist strap. That would be exciting.

Another question for you if you dont mind. What is the difference between the Scan that you have by long pressing 1 on the keypad and the scan that you get with long pressing 3 on the Keypad, and what situation would you use each of those for?

Does the refrigerator certificate have a gold star?

I'm in NorCal - I am confukulated with the repeaters and their duplicated channels? I get the FARS, but as you are moving, and your channels are pre-set, how do you utilize the duplicated 462.550 for NorCal, and then in SoCal? Chirp list has FRS first, then GMRS, then GMRS-550/15R - Trying to set a multitude of family gmrs radios.

We need to have Beers & Pretzels. Hahahaha

I don't regret that I bought a Baofeng UV-5R GMRS (GMRS....GMRS....GMRS) radio...😂

An Idea comes to mind. Just post an image for the CHIRP software with the Ranchino settings for users to copy onto their CHIRP then to their GMRS radio. 🤔

😊

I am unsad but I do find it difficult to find the transmit tones different repeaters use. Many seem to keep it secret and/or not published at least for the few repeaters in the Milwaukee area.

I'm not one of them Jason!just trying to understand the whole picture! I have the btech gmrs V2 Channels 15-22-repeater Channels- then you say I believe! Channels 23 through 30 repeater channels as well (concerning tone SETTINGS) Looking for Repeaters! A little confused my friend! *can you help me out with this problem my friend? *I do have a gmrs license wrqy733 Ps- I did try to find a school here in Boston Massachusetts to learn with hands on! I could learn this much, much! Faster!! But had no luck at all, Jason!! *well , Thanks For Listening, My Friend!!

Hey Randy, where can I get the gertex7000u programming software?

Randy is Derek Zoolander of hand modeling

Ooh ooh! I wants certificates, but only if it's available in full-spectrum Crayola font.

Frosty Jim 😂😂

waiting for the pin-on-the-top message

QUESTION...on my gmrs I have the tones for a particular channel. On repeater book, tgat same gmrs channel has the tone and seems to have an offset freq. Do gmrs repeaters use or need offsets???

I really like your video but I decided to just take my handheld to a technician that way I can sit in the chair and listen to him with the f word that way I didn't have to say it well he was programming my baofeng HT

Question. I have the Midland mxt275 and can not transmit onto a repeater. I turned repeater mode on and put in the right Ctss , etc. I still can't transmit. I can hear others though. Am i screwing up or does the Midland mxt275 not transmit to repeaters? Thank you for the time if read this

I have a question unrelated to this particular video. Is there a gmrs radio to mount in my vehicle that will automatically come on when I turn on my vehicle like cb radios did? I currently have the b tech gmrs 50.

Hello i dont know what im doing wrong your video is very clear in how to program a repeater...i still can mine to connect..pls help..i have a baofeng GMRS-9R with 1-8 repeatable channels

How about a video about linking gmrs repeaters together ?

Thank you I need this confuckulation