HRN 552: Is There a GMRS 'Travel Channel"? 🚗

Last July, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ/WRPG652 posted a QLog Entry about a GMRS ‘Travel Channel’. after repeatedly answering the question “Is there one” on GMRS Facebook and Reddit forums. He linked to that essay when encountering the question several more times, and even got a few ‘good answer’ responses 😀. So we made it a show, because why not?

He invited GMRS users on Reddit and Facebook to join the show. Nobody bit, so Gary and West Coast Host David W0DHG/WROT234 rambled around and then went through Gary’s essay to exhausively overanalyze the subject. As we do.

Oh, what’s a ‘Travel Channel’. For details, watch the show and/or read the essay, but briefly, it would be one of the GMRS channels that everyone agrees to monitor when they’re out on the highway, so if one of them transmitts (simplex) looking for a contact, others in range will hear them and respond if they’re interested in a chat while motoring along🚗.

And… spoiler alert ⚠🚨… Gary says “There isn’t one, but there could be” and suggests GMRS channel 20 (462.675) — not channel 19 — and explains why.

HRN 551: The Ramble Continues.... 🎙

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HRN Hosts David W0DHG and Gary K4AAQ had just finished recording an episode of the show about how Everybody Wants a Handneld (and why they shouldn’t), and they tried hard to keep it on topic and fairly concise (and almost succeeded). But the pent-up ramble had to explode someplace, and that place was here, recorded immediately afterward.

It ended up mostly being about David leaving his ARES affiliation to concentrate on volunteering with ‘real’ emcomm. Gary did talk about some of the stuff that’s kept him from producing more HamRadioNow. There could have been more, but David had other stuff to do, so we leave it for next time. Stay Tuned🎙

Podcast audio, available pretty much everywhere

HRN 550: Everybody Wants a Handheld (and why they shouldn't)

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In both Ham Radio and GMRS, there's no doubt, almost everyone starts out with a handheld radio. After making basically the same points about that - over and over - while answering questions in multiple Facebook and Reddit forums, HamRadioNow East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ/WRPG652 wrote an essay in his QLog blog on the HRN website. Now he can just link to the essay and go on with his day😉 (that has actually worked, and he’s had a few positive responses. Go figure).

And now it's a podcast episode. Even better, because West Coast Host David W0DHG adds his experience on the topic. And we tried very hard to stick to the subject and not ramble.

Podcast audio, available pretty much everywhere