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Nobody will care if you are on simplex talking amongst yourselves. I spend hours at a time on 2m simplex from home and have a 30mile or so reach on 25W doing it. That's what radio is for...talking.

If you want to curse and menace people and intentionally interfere...you will have trouble, that's not accepted on the ham bands. Anything else is fine as far as just talking to your friends.

As for 440 simplex being a problem...out in the desert, you would literally have to be able to see each other for 440 to work anyway...nobody would hear you on simplex 440 anyway more than a few miles away. It's ideal for talking it up with a travelling group if you are all very close in. We use 2m pretty regularly on simplex while driving up to ham fests and the like where people will be spaced farther apart.

There's always 10m too and if you are general class ops, you can use 10m FM very nicely indeed for this 29.600 I think is the simplex calling frequency there. Will cover a lot of ground and terrain and you can keep it nicely squelched.

Too many options to list.

You could even use repeaters for this if you had some in range. There are so many idle repeaters around here, nobody cares if you use them for the most part. If they do, find another one. The biggest key on repeaters is if you don't know the control ops, be courteous and allow space between transmissions so other people can get on and make a call if they want to. Simply saying "anyone else need to get in?" to make it obvious that you are being courteous goes a long way.

<blockquote data-quote="SR385" data-source="post: 174695" data-attributes="member: 3106">Nobody will care if you are on simplex talking amongst yourselves.&nbsp; I spend hours at a time on 2m simplex from home and have a 30mile or so reach on 25W doing it.&nbsp; That&#039;s what radio is for...talking.If you want to curse and menace people and intentionally interfere...you will have trouble, that&#039;s not accepted on the ham bands.&nbsp; Anything else is fine as far as just talking to your friends.As for 440 simplex being a problem...out in the desert, you would literally have to be able to see each other for 440 to work anyway...nobody would hear you on simplex 440 anyway more than a few miles away.&nbsp; It&#039;s ideal for talking it up with a travelling group if you are all very close in.&nbsp;&nbsp; We use 2m pretty regularly on simplex while driving up to ham fests and the like where people will be spaced farther apart.There&#039;s always 10m too and if you are general class ops, you can use 10m FM very nicely indeed for this&nbsp; 29.600 I think is the simplex calling frequency there.&nbsp; Will cover a lot of ground and terrain and you can keep it nicely squelched.Too many options to list.You could even use repeaters for this if you had some in range.&nbsp; There are so many idle repeaters around here, nobody cares if you use them for the most part.&nbsp; If they do, find another one.&nbsp;&nbsp; The biggest key on repeaters is if you don&#039;t know the control ops, be courteous and allow space between transmissions so other people can get on and make a call if they want to.&nbsp; Simply saying &quot;anyone else need to get in?&quot; to make it obvious that you are being courteous goes a long way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SR385, post: 174695, member: 3106"] Nobody will care if you are on simplex talking amongst yourselves. I spend hours at a time on 2m simplex from home and have a 30mile or so reach on 25W doing it. That's what radio is for...talking. If you want to curse and menace people and intentionally interfere...you will have trouble, that's not accepted on the ham bands. Anything else is fine as far as just talking to your friends. As for 440 simplex being a problem...out in the desert, you would literally have to be able to see each other for 440 to work anyway...nobody would hear you on simplex 440 anyway more than a few miles away. It's ideal for talking it up with a travelling group if you are all very close in. We use 2m pretty regularly on simplex while driving up to ham fests and the like where people will be spaced farther apart. There's always 10m too and if you are general class ops, you can use 10m FM very nicely indeed for this 29.600 I think is the simplex calling frequency there. Will cover a lot of ground and terrain and you can keep it nicely squelched. Too many options to list. You could even use repeaters for this if you had some in range. There are so many idle repeaters around here, nobody cares if you use them for the most part. If they do, find another one. The biggest key on repeaters is if you don't know the control ops, be courteous and allow space between transmissions so other people can get on and make a call if they want to. Simply saying "anyone else need to get in?" to make it obvious that you are being courteous goes a long way. [/QUOTE]

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