RVA GMRS

10/18/2025

"No King's" March (part three) GMRS nineteen. Many inexperienced Op's, borrowed Feng Bangers and organized chaos.

Part three of at least three hours of radio reception on GMRS nineteen. Plenty of organized chaos. ...

01/01/2025

It's been amazing how busy the GMRS repeaters in Richmond, VA have been. I suppose it's the holidays and people just have time on their hands. I've spoken to new stations and users with new equipment. I just figured out that mygmrs.com has an app on Google play. I've uploaded and logged on, marked the seven local repeaters as favorites. I speak to many cross-service operators, many whom I know on the amateur bands. Great places to keep in touch when the local MRA or RATS UHF is busy. Let me encourage you, if you've decided to delay taking the first test for the technician amateur radio license, get your GMRS license for you and your family. It's worth the $3.50 yearly investment. $35 up front for ten years. Cheap Chinese radios for starters. I use Motorola mostly. Sometimes I use the other gear.

myGMRS.com is a General Mobile Radio Service community where users can search for and submit repeaters in their area.

06/24/2024

https://youtu.be/QDFdvpVxKj8?si=H2mylOqdDbaGdS2A

05/23/2024

If not Realistic, be Optimus!

04/19/2024

Not action packed. Maybe a little. Dumb idea.

I enjoyed it!

Workers at a failing railway take a train to meet the heads of the company when its closure is announced.

04/17/2024

This is just mean. I mean, innocent at first, without the understanding that many have access to certain frequencies at any given time. I'm listening just east of downtown, likely in the Shockoe Valley and Churchill area. This is focused solely on the FRS channel three. There are immigrant employees using the channel to coordinate at a local construction site. Then someone had the bright idea to tx a local broadcast station. It's fine to bring a broadcast receiver on site for your listening pleasure but, to retransmit without expressed, written permission of copyright content is forbidden. Also, music on FRS/GMRS is also forbidden. If you must dj, either find a job or apply for part 15 equipment and do so yourself in the broadcast spectrum. Let the rest of us communicate amongst ourselves. Or, just go home.

About 09:30, 04/17/24 here in Shockoe Valley I can receive strongly music and ads, in English and Spanish. Quite annoying, regarding ch three is used by vari...

02/26/2024

Xfinity is experiencing a very localized outage in my area at the moment. Not sure how long today's delay is expected. I may not be easily reached here throughout today. Please be patient. Thank you!

02/25/2024

Due to the adoption of "woke in nature", I have decided to unsubscribe from the slack app.