[Music] hi this is John with citizen survival plan today we are going to talk about gmrs repeaters how they work and how to connect to them so let's get right into it let's start with a frequency chart for gmrs your gmrs channels that you are seeing channels 15 to 22 are actually transmit frequencies so when you hit your push to talk button you are going from one radio to the other so you are transmitting and receiving on the same frequency your repeater channels 15 to 22 operate by listening to regular gmrs channels 15 to 22 but they transmit on an entirely different frequency okay so I'm going to hold the menu button and turn this on frequency mode and now I'm in frequency mode Let's go to to repeater 20 so I'm on repeater 20 and I'm going to transmit on repeater 20 here now let's go down here to this chart this is repeater 20 and that is transmitting on this frequency 467 6750 so because that's transmitting on this I need to tune this radio to that and that's what I'm going to do so let's type in a frequency here 4 6 7 6 75 4 67 675 0 that's what we're on over here and that's repeater Channel 20's frequency when you are actually on repeater 20 you are just + five over your normal Channel 20 frequency so let's show this I'm going to turn this up I'm going to set this back here and you'll see it connect test testing so when you're on repeater 20 you can see you are actually transmitting on this frequency which is above your normal Channel 20 frequency so what's happening here is your gmrs radio is preprogramed to transmit up to a higher frequency than it's receiving you're going to receive on regular frequencies so when you're on your repeater channels you're going to hear like you would hear on channel 15 or whatever Channel you're on in the regular uh band one thing that I see people talk about all the time is offsets your gmrs radio is pre-programmed to automatically do the offset for you there's no offset programming when you look in a manual of a gmrs radio or if you're on like a btech app or something you actually can't change even your receive frequency so there's no changing the offset if you are on a repeater Channel channel on your program gmrs radio it is automatically going to do that offset for you this brings me to my next Point your gmrs radio on repeater channels is receiving on regular channels or frequencies let me show you okay so now I'm going to go back into regular channel mode on this gmrs radio so I'm going to hold the menu button Channel mode now I'm back in regular gmrs channels so so let's go to channel 20 gmrs 20 there's no tones or anything set on this just for these demonstration purposes so if you look here this is on repeater Channel 20 I am on the gmrs repeater Channel 20 so what's happening here is this radio is pre-programmed to listen to regular channel 20 so if we go down this is the transmit channel on channel 20 so if I were to key this up I'm going to transmit here at 467 but this channel pre-programmed into your gmrs radio and all gmrs radios are like this is programmed to listen receive on 462 so let's show that repeater 20 this is just regular gmr s20 and this is going to connect up and I can talk into it testing testing we are transmitting to that repeater channel so what's happening is when you key up on repeater 20 the repeater sitting on top of the hill or wherever it is is going to hear it here and it's probably going to have a tone on it we're going to show you how to do tones in a minute and it's going to spit it out on this channel this radio is pre-programmed to listen listen over here so what a gmrs repeater is doing is receiving on one channel and spitting back out a signal on regular gmrs channels that you normally would be listening to so all you need to do is find a repeater that you can reach in your area choose the right repeater Channel and set your tones whether that be a digital tone or a ctcss tone here's a demo on how to actually do that too let's demonstrate how to put a tone on a repeater Channel and it's not any different than just putting a tone on any other gmrs channel that you have we're going to do ctcss tones and I'm going to show you the digital tones this is receive ctcs we need to go to transmit because we need to put the tone that the repeater is going to be carrying so let's say the repeater has a ctcs tone of we're just going to pick something random it's 69.3 confirm we're just going to confirm that so when you go and you look at it on the computer and you find a repeater and you see the tone you just need to match your transmit tone so you can get into the repeater the repeater will now pick up that tone and the repeater can hear you let's do a digital tone so let's get this one out of here we're just going to zero this back out turn that off let's go up to a digital tone this is a digital transmit tone it's exactly the same if there is a digital tone on the repeater on the intake your received tone or its received tone you just set it to whatever it is so if it's 32 you just set it there you just confirm it the same way that you would conf confirm any other tone in the radio here is why receive tones are not that important for when you're using repeaters your receive tone doesn't really matter for listening purposes and let me demonstrate this radio has a transmit ctcs tone on it and is 91.5 so on this radio I'm going to just turn all the tones completely off [Music] my receive tone so there's no tones on Channel 17 and I have a transmit tone set on this radio 91.5 so let's try and transmit this testing testing now the radio that has no tones on it can hear this radio with tones those are privacy tones the Privacy tones only block out other people people's chatter but they can still hear you when you're on a regular channel everyone can still hear you let's actually show you an example of a repeater and how you would connect to it so you have to be one within range of your repeater whatever that means you need to be close enough to actually hit it so number two tune your radio to the corresponding repeater channel of of the repeater so with this one this is the Uplink this is where it's going to be receiving right here the 46755 so what is that that is repeater channel 15 shown here in my chart I made this chart I didn't find it anywhere else feel free to use it this is the frequency that your radio is going to transmit on to hit repeater channel 15 when you are on channel 15 on your gmrs radio you will be listening right here so this is a random repeater that I have on the screen here the Uplink tone looks like a ctcs tone you are going to type this right here in the 141.5 and and it says the down link tone is the same you can put a receive tone on repeater channel 15 but it doesn't matter what is very important is that you put a transmit tone of this in and if this had a digital tone you would simply just not put the ctcs tone on you would just choose a digital tone some repeaters don't have a tone and you would just simply trans transmit on channel 15 to this channel the up link and it should work most repeaters are going to have a tone though you might need another radio nearby to test to see if it's working repeaters can crunk you back or make a beep sound when you connect to them but if you just have an additional radio just to set off to the side to tune to the corresponding radio just like you um that way you could hear if your voice is hitting the repeater and coming back down and hitting the radio that would be a good way to test it I hope that helps clarify how the repeaters actually work you basically just need your tones and you should be able to connect no need to worry about offsets they are all just pre-programmed for gmrs we'll see you in the next video thanks for [Music] watching yeah