im on the passenger seat one day

is dating allowed on radio

Are they going to be broadcasting for a while longer or what’s the story with that?

The iss almost hit Neptunes head

Kmart is having a sale on lightbulbs lol

3:23 its smaller than neppys

I agree with your assessment. Around here the 2m repeater and simplex is dead. I have heard one group have a meeting and heard one other time where there were a total of 3 guys talking. and I have been listening for about 3 months now every day and night. The 1.25m is a little more active. I hear a couple of guys about once a week.

i have one as well but its only my back up for the base cb.. i have a Stryker SRA10 Magnet mount on my tahoe..

Here in Australia, I find repeaters almost non-existent of HAM users. Seems a waste really. EDITED BIT: Analogue and digital modes.

It might stop a few hood stone chips in the winter.

Very cool

I don’t have a opinion on your views pro or con , I do see your point about people taking a lot of the enjoyment out of radio but mainly I want to comment on the old school microwave tower that you’re showing…those are awesome … I never get tired of checking them out . Really cool 🇺🇸👍🏻

Bros tryna run them watch hours up

Ok , I’m new to your channel. Is this what you do? Drive around and record or are you on a job/commute at the same time? Just curious. Either way it’s a clever idea. You’re better than me…I cannot handle traffic without screaming.

Nice! What camera are we watching through?

Just two of the repeater systems around me in western Colorado reach multiple states and into Canada and are quite active. One of the repeater systems has 66 interconnected repeaters (some near me are connected only by microwave) and there is always someone willing to answer 24 hours a day. The entire reason I got into ham radio was because of the amazing repeater system out here and my love of the outdoors and my willingness to go to remote places alone (SOTA/POTA, hike, fish, Jeep, dirt bike/ATV, camp, etc). I live in rugged mountains with 14ers practically out my back door and there are many places that do not have cell service but just about everywhere out here has access at least one of the three major repeater systems. Everybody here seems well behaved and I have not run across a single sad ham or anyone correcting anyone's language or conversation or topic ever. I monitor 2 of those systems 24 hours a day and have for the last 6 years. There are quite a few nets throughout the week and some are quite interesting. There's a brother and sister in different cities and they have an afternoon chat several times a week about many different things and even though they're reaching out to 65 other repeaters, nobody cares. The only time I notice dead repeaters is when I travel outside of Colorado; I RARELY get a response when I reach out. Anyway, there are at least 2 repeater systems covering much of Colorado that are not dead and have not restricted anyone in my 6 years of around-the-clock listening. I have noticed that calling "CQ" on any repeater system (unless that person is from Malta or Japan for example) will not yield as many responses as just asking for a radio check or quick chat. Thanks so much for the video. If you want a topic to evaluate, try hams' experiences with amateur radio clubs. 73

A lot of repeaters today are not all in one. Most repeaters are two radios with a controller of some sort. Look at the massive market for Motorola CDM.

Free speech is scary, how would big brother feel

I hate hearing politics on repeaters. And I see you have 16 comments on this video, but only three of them are visible, so I guess you don't believe that much in 'free speech' either.

When 10 M amateur band sounds quiet, on CB super channels, they are booming in like how many KW's are they running on there. I see 200 Amp power supplies listed by CB dealers. 😊

Hasn't the number of us amateurs stayed around 750,000 for quite a while,. not really increasing nor decreasing in recent years.?😊

These point to point radios, is that the ones I see as In Touch Radios? 😊

actually repeat it or not dead a lot of them are used on the net when they do their nets, also many people use them when they are commuting for safety here in New York City we got quite a few repeaters that I use, a lot on the 2 meter band,

I was with ya until i saw the nasty trump flag 🤮

Ham radio is just like society. People are not nearly as welcoming as they used to be and they have become very tribal. We are seeing what 75 meters has been like for ages, all over the bands now.

It's dead cause it's boring as fuck. Check ins etc. People obsessed with Rules, proper etiquette. Makes HAM radio dry.

You know, this would explain a lot about the general historical perception of the FFC at one time being active in such matters, but not for many years. I bet if you go back in time and look at ARRL literature in the years after that, you'd find an increased focus on "amateur radio communities regulating themselves" as FFC lawyers offloaded their now adjudicated as unconstitutional duties to the private club.

At least you don't have to use a repeater on ham to talk around the world.......oh, I forgot, you can't talk around the world with a GMRS radio even with repeaters.

Thanks for replying. I watched all the way to the end and if I understand you correctly, you think the reason repeaters are dead is that the younger generation finds the topic of discussions boring? The generation that is the smallest statistical group? I believe you said they want to talk about politics and curse? It kinda sounds like you’re saying repeaters are dead because repeaters don’t cater to young edge lords? There are about five repeaters here in SoCal that talk about “real things”, cars, guns, and day to day life, so I am not really sure your real reason has enough of a statistical impact here. *five repeaters in about a fifty miles radius I should add.

I'm glad I found you, and I hope you make a ton more videos. Subscribed!

What you don't seem to understand is that the rules do say we're not allowed to use 4 letter words on air! Don't matter if everyone else is doing it. That's not appropriate on rge ham bands. And yes, they SHOULD lose their license for that! "Free speech radio"? Really? Get a CB then! The reason repeaters aren't used as much now is that technology has changed, so the8r not needed as much. That's most of it. There have always been different groups in the hobby/service (cw, hf, ssb, ect.) New digital modes haven't changed that. The FCC still does some enforcement of the ham bands. But we're supposed to be dealing with most problems ourselves. That's why we can do so many things amd have so much bandwidth! Most real hans don't like what happens on 80 or 7200! Those cloqns aren't as popular as you think! You may find then funny, but most hams don't! And no, "most" CB ops DON'T run power! ẞo stop trying to justify poor operation. Some ops are just "stuck" in the old days? Really? Nope! They just like gentalman operators, NOT the freaks amd clown show of today!

You’re going to miss the boomers.

I agree with what you are saying at the end of the video...it's a HUGE problem and has been for a long time. However, I also agree with most, but not all, of what Josh and George are saying. I also agree that repeater activity and culture varies greatly around the country. Multiple things can be true at the same time.....

Thank you for saying this. Im unlicensed and asked the three dudes on a repeater where their club met AFYER THEIR NET ENDED so I could ask them questions legally. "Thats a felony!" Wouldnt even tell me where. Edit: I work near Mar a lago, so I went on the marine channel 9 the bridge tenders use up and down the intracoastal waterway on my home saying Merry Christmas to each one. I met my local deputy buddy at our coffee spot and called the tender for our town's bridge. He, another deputy, and a random dude in his 20s straight up wanted a baofeng on the spot. This hobby is cool as fuck and I cant relate to hams. Theres all this overlap with firearms training and overland camping and disaster prep and stuff- we get hurricanes bad. This shit is not boring at all. Its a cryin-ass shame.

I'm a new ham, and I don't have any interest in random conversations with strangers, over a repeater. I'm interested in targeted comms, and the practices that come from that

100% agree. Very well said! Repeater groups are so boring; all they ever talk about is radio hardware. The most interesting thing we discussed in my area lately was the Hurricane Helen relief effort because it was actually something that wasn’t as safe and predictable. People were complaining about FEMA, worried for loved ones, and sharing real concerns-finally, a real conversation! HF simplex is great because you can actually talk about whatever you want without some fudd repeater owner flipping out because you aren’t discussing a Bible verse or radio equipment. So much more freedom and way less dull!

I love it!!!! 🤣

i have my antenna on my trunk lid. on both my mustang and grand marquise.

For good or ill, we allow Ecolink on our local repeater. The repeater became famous during Helene. We've had non-locals log in to that repeater and start correcting locals on how they should transmit or how they should set up Ecolink. Some folks listening in on Ecolink were targeted by these folks for correction - even though they were not transmitting. As long as a person gives a call sign and name when transmitting, no one really cares if they have their name in the right spot for Ecolink.

Digital versus analog: it's a trade-off between digital pushing a few decibels deeper into the noise with forward error correction and never hearing scratchy faint audio versus analog sounding better when it is strong enough to be out of the noise. An old fashioned cliche my father used to say "one man's meat is another man's poison."

Barf. We use the ones around here, analog. SE Louisiana. I think it kind of depends on where you live. I am an IT person, I discourage linking over the Internet. I liked your opinion on this topic.

East of Tampa, FL our 440 MHz repeater is a dual mode FM+digital (switching between) that has a digital net two nights every week. That is all that I have heard about hereabouts. I think most new HAMS with technician licenses use VHF+UHF until they upgrade and discover the great fun of HF, ending their FM+digital interest. I think it takes a HAM club to keep a VHF and/or UHF repeater used and constantly monitored. Ron W4BIN

unless you speak out against FCC. they have been trying to shut me up for years.

Over here in Nova Scotia Canada our repeaters are all linked except for the odd one or two. They are linkable across 3 provinces and they get linked up and used for a net every weekday morning and they get used for a couple nets per week. Those repeaters all work when cell phones don't. We don't have anyone being grumpy or controlling on them. The morning net is very popular and it always goes into overtime with tons of check-ins. I have two local repeaters in my little town that we are encouraged to use by the repeater operators so they will be there when needed for emergency operations. Something that The video doesn't talk about is that every region will have a different experience... We don't have any digital mode repeaters in Nova Scotia, there is one DMR repeater in New Brunswick I think. Some are IRLP and Echo link enabled, and we welcome operators to join nets from wherever they are in the world. I like the fact that our repeaters are all analog VHF and UHF so we don't have have very expensive HTs and simple mobiles work without issues

OH and the highly touted GMRS has the potential to devolve just like AM CB did. AM CB started out same concept as GMRS. But radios were expensive and FCC enforcement was substantial. Then cheap radios came along, which GMRS already has. Too many reasons to list here but if it does go south, there is nothing you can do about it. At least if it was a digital radio service, maybe they could be programmed so the systems would block out unidentified or unlicensed. Digital radios too complicated for the goobers that want to play CB. The despised ham "gatekeepers" may be alot of the reason that sort of thing is usually kept suppressed to a large extent on the ham bands.

Your doing the lords work.