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Then maybe it’s time to use simplex and/or move to Ham for random conversations?

I recently got my first radio a TidRadio TD-H3 though now i want something for home use with a bit more power

Ok, my not mean anything but I have seen some people who are trying to figure out what has cause some TD-H3s to fail and one theory is that when the battery is fully charged it might start outputting high voltage before the charger cable is unplugged. They are thinking that surge might be affecting the radio if it is attached at the time.

I did charge it via the battery plug with the battery still attached. But Iv done that with the other h-3, as well as the h-5 I have and both work fine.

Did you by chance charge it on the cradle or via the direct battery plug with the battery still attached to the radio while charging?

THAT... depends on where you are. In the area I live in, there are repeaters on every GMRS frequency, many overlap and even with tones to squelch others out, there is crossover interference at times. It would actually be nice to have a few more GMRS repeater pair frequencies in some places where there is a larger populated area.

Interesting. I have two of the original model... and when this one came out I was not really all that interested in the "expanded bluetooth" functions... and now it sounds like it was done only to promote ODmaster, not to make it more compatible with bluetooth speakers or earphones. Yeah, I'll stick with what I have. I have been very happy with the original TD-H3's ... have not had a problem with mine.

It was probably a Monday or Friday radio, it can happen to any of us ... The bright side is, you'll have a extra battery, charger and antenna for the working one. By the way, those TID antennas have the frequency range on the bottom of the antenna circled around the sma connector. 325 mhz. is WAAAAY out of range for that antenna.

I'm believing this primarily, because this is what MY Alinco also states; Alinco's factory in Toyama, Japan is ISO9002/140001 certified.

The bigger question is “why do you care?” Did someone prevent you from putting up a repeater of your own? With multiple channels and tones available, one can certainly own and operate a repeater if they desire. I can see the Bernie bumper sticker on your Prius from way over here…..

THIS ^

-Move the antenna higher - Use a better antenna - More power - Accept the fact that you get what you get and be happy with that

Contact their support and see what they say - if they give you the run-around, or dont help, just send it back and tell them to send you one that works or give you back your money. Amazon makes this VERY easy to do.

Iv gone through the settings on both radios and everything is identical. One hits the repeater and one doesn’t. The radio I had in my tuck will receive but will not transmit. Again, all the settings, frequencies and tones are identical on the two radios. I do not have an swr meter to test. There’s no way to tune a ghost antenna anyway.

Sorry I haven’t gotten back, just checked output power on my Surecom and as I expected showing 0 watts, my 2 other H3’s indicating 5.5 watts and my H8 showing 9.8 watts. So just a bad radio I guess

IF you 'fried' your radio, it was not because it was connected to a Ghost antenna, unless that antenna or your wiring is defective/shorted. My guess is you've messed up a setting, which is statistically far, FAR more likely than any damage to the radio.

I bought the two pack tidradio h-3 on Amazon along with the midland ghost antenna on a mag mount for usin in my truck. The radio I had hooked up to it in the truck will not hit the repeaters anymore, while the other, exact same radio, with its normal antenna will hit the same repeater. Did I fry the radio connected to the ghost antenna or something? I can still hear the repeaters and talk on simplex frequencies, it just won’t him repeaters.

My new base radio arrived earlier this week, and I set it up with a home-made copper pipe J pole and RG 213 coax. I'm able to hear my local repeaters very clearly and have carried on a few conversations across a repeater that's about 30 miles away. Unfortunately, most other operators can't seem to hear me very well. Sometimes, they can, but not always. I've already set my antenna up where it has clear line of sight according to https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/rf-line-of-sight/, but it could always be higher. I've also made sure I'm using wide band, but my voice seems to be hit and miss over the repeater. If anyone has suggestions about how to make things better, please let me know. -Steve WRXU861

I did. And I did request access to the only one shown in the whole city. However, multiple users are talking about other private ones that are geographically closer to my locations. So, I'm wondering if users can share more locations that arent enlisted.

WRUE951, thanks I ran it in admin mode and voila it worked. All installed and running like a champ. Something so easy to overlook, and it just takes a comment or a suggestion from somebody else to try, and the rest is history.

@UncleYoda, How about this. I did two different searches. Both for open repeaters in South Carolina. The screenshots are below. One saw 39 repeaters. The other returned none.

I’ve searched and read and searched some more and still am having issues with audio from the repeater passing through. Recently ordered one of the USB-Rim Lite’s from repeater builder to interface a Motorola R1225 repeater to ASL. I’ve built cables and used both the RA-33 and AriUSB for interfacing previously. With this one, I’m stumped. Looking for info (radio wide configuration, external accessories, simple-usb values) on the values from someone who has used this setup.

Who is in or near Ocala

Running Windows 11. For some reason now I'm wondering if the 11 upgrade did emulate in the registry. I did get putty installed, I'll figure it out, but thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

It’s working for me.