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Nice; appreciate it!

This ^ is correct. It's menu setting 21 & 22. MDF-A and MDF-B, hit the Menu button again to get the cursor down and then push the up or down arrow to toggle between Channel and Name. ETA: I see this has already been answered.

But that's in Chirp! You asked how to do it after uploading, so the answer was referring to using the radio's menu, i.e. pushing buttons. [Everyone should read the regs carefully yourself, not take advice from random internet people.]

Disclaimer: I'm still on CHIRP Legacy, so this may be different on the current/new CHIRP Open your UV5R file in CHIRP, click the Settings tab, then click Basic Settings, you'll see Display Mode (A) & Display Mode (B), click there, you'll have the choices of Name, Channel, Frequency Select Name, save your file, re-upload, & you won't have to go into the menu settings It's been my experience that on some, not all, radios, that if you change something in the settings through the menu, the radio doesn't/won't keep it If you make your edits in the software & upload them, the edits are remembered & kept YMMV 73

There is no rule or regulation that says these frequencies must be "transmit blocked", and, nobody asked anyway..Stop making up lies, its making you look ignorant.

Thank you OffRoaderX and Uncle Yoda. Its in Basic Settings, under Display Mode A and Display Mode B. Using the pull down menu, the selection is now set to NAME.

On my oldest UV-5R: menu 21 MDF-A, menu 22 MDF-B (A & B correspond to the 2 displayed channels) *All those things you mention need to be transmit blocked to stay w/in regs. And you need a ham license for talking on ham frequencies.

I do not recall the exact name of it, but there is a Menu Setting that you can change to show name, frequency or channel.. Might be called MDF or something like that.. Find it, then set it to 'name'.

Programmed a UV-5R using Chirp. The MURS, FRS, NOAA Weather Frequency, and GMRS and names are displayed on Chirp. In the MR setting, how may the names be displayed on the UV-5R after successfully uploading the image to the UV-5R? Thank you! WISC904

it is an investment,, But not as bad as you think. RVing is all we do for entertainment.. We don't spend money on airfares, ships or hotels, so we look at it as a tradeoff from one or the other. Also, RV's can be written off on your taxes, like a home and i also took advantage of Californias Solar program, 30% off a 1600 watt systems and even qualifed for a PG&E rebate beacause i was temporally living in an RV Park when i installed it ..

Not to mention all the Priate VOIP companies whom are actually stealing form the telephone companies and raking in billions with offsohre scams

I 100% agree. The rules are no where near in line with the times and tech of today. If I am paying for a data connection, the ISP really doesn't care what I put over the connection. Otherwise millions of people would be getting fined and sued for using apps like Skype, WebEx, Teams and free internet phone apps from companies like Google. Think about when the internet was young and we had dial-up. We had SpeakFreely in '91, and VocalTec. No one was accused of theft of service then, either.

i heard that same theory a few years ago and it came from an AT&T Engineer.. But,, today with all these different Broadband providers, not incluidng the old POT companies, its prretty hard to establish a theft violeation because most ISP could care less, they're only interested in selling their serice. Personaly, because of this, i think the FCC needs to redo their deffination of Plain Old Telephone Companies..

I use both only because i have friends on HAM in some areas we travel.. I use GMRS 70% of the time.. It's nice to have the HAM license and utlize their linked systems which does come in handy at times.. Also, there are a couple RV Parks we travel to where the Park Manager is HAM and reaching out to them comes in very handy and really helps getting into the prime spots.. Yea, if yoiu have an interest to get a HAM license, i would go for it.

No, but that’s a myopic view. The U.S. government has regulations against conducting radio communications on the U.S. side of the border that violate international treaties that they have with other countries. So even though the communications you actually interfere with are in Canada, you can be penalized on the U.S. side.

Where is it written? Nowhere. No one is saying that. OP was asking for a Charleston area repeater and we were just saying that one out in the boonies on Clements Ferry Road isn't really going to help the "Charleston area."

Where is it written a repeater installation by a private citizen MUST cover a population the size of Charleston, SC? Geezz...

Ok so as long as your in the USA Canada can't touch you when it comes to radio communication. I mean they can make all the rules they want but nothing can be enforced because as long the user is on US soil nothing can't be done.

I remember using pulse dial and even party lines.

I changed my phone settings from light to dark and it made no difference to the way notifications appear. I also adjusted my brightness way down and the notifications are still visible on my phone. Again I think it’s important to know what platform @UncleYoda is on, whether he is using a browser, and if so which one, or Tapatalk or the MyGMRS app. Im firmly convinced that the problem is exacerbated by his local settings but the light gray text on black background doesn’t help.

Well, I thought about going RV but decided against it. What I considered a decent rig was just too expensive with the limited use I'd put to it. I was looking at all-around unit, diesel powered of at least 20 foot. To address your question though, I would do both. Ham radio can be fun even with just the V/UHF bands and many radios sold for either service can do both ham/GMRS.

I used to hang around a bit with Kevin Mitnick back in the day building 2600Hz boxes until he started doing really crazy stuff.

I remember an interview with Steve Wozniak explaining how he would do this. I'm of the age but I wasn't privy to this info at the time... darn it

This would be my thought exactly Edit: that said I use Dark mode on my iPad and light on my Mac and don't have this issue, but the question remains what browser and setting is @UncleYoda using, or device for that matter

If you ever (knew anyone who) used the toy whistle from a Captain Crunch cereal box to get free long distance calling, you might be of that age.