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You got the pair for less than $50 each. Heck, even if you didn't have any use for two, you could sell one to a friend for $70 and you'd both get a good deal.

Nice! I haven't started playing with DMR yet, but I plan to soon.

$97 with taxes. I also orfdered a $9 cable... The one i won is shipping free.. Just got a note this morning, it's on the way. Note, when you enter their site for the first time they give you a 10% discount code.. Copy that into your clipboard right away becasue it will disapear when you start browsing their site.

Tell us you're old as dirt without saying you're old as dirt. (All in good fun, brother. I didn't have a non-SSN service number, but I did wear OD fatigues.)

How much did you pay including shipping?

NAW, real military chatta would be "Roger, Wilco," then go do it!

I can no longer remember my CB call sign but for some funny reason, I can still remember my first Service No. B23..... before SSN numbers were used.

You can own any Radio you want, however where you transmit is depended on your License that you acquired, and the max aloud TX/wattage allocated in that frequency range. Most unlocked radio's like the UV-5RM are ham radio's that will transmit in the GMRS band. However the TX Power will exceed what the FCC allows for GMRS band. You can program any radio you want to frequencies to your liking, but again transmitting on frequencies your not licensed is against the law / FCC regulations. I am not promoting to transmitting with more Power but I have yet to see the FCC knock on your door because you were transmitting instead of 0.5 watts you hit 2 watts. FCC has better things to do. The FCC will come knocking if there are multiple complaints of you interfering with neighbors ( alarm system, TV, and possible other electronics). Just my 2 cents.. Have fun.

Wow, Last week I ordered a Baoefeng DM 32UV from the Baofeng direct. When I ordered, I also entered their monthly giveaway contest. Tonight I just received an email from Baofeng, I won a DM 32UV.. that’s cool, now I’ll have two.

Nope. A lot of them do because it *can* decrease confusion in new users. What's required is that the radio enforce the rules. The rules don't say anything about what memory slot a frequency sits in. My "nice" GMRS radios (nice for me...), KG-905Gs, will force the radio to low power if you put, say, GMRS Channel 8 in memory slot 20, or allow high power and frequency offset for repeaters channels if you put them in, say, memory slot 8, where a low power interstitial channel would normally go. Lazily programmed (from the factory, I mean) radios force things rigidly in place because it's easier than enforcing the rules more broadly.

now if the antenna happens to be shaped like a Cat D9, it might do something to the hill... But other than that, no.

As many times as the question is ask. I've been around since the days of bulletin boards. Newbies are always asking the same questions. We can either insult them or invite them. I've always been in favor of inviting.

Not so sure about bigger better antenna doing anything to the immutable impenetrable hill. But getting it above said hill will do the trick.

Roger.

Thanks to WRMN250, @WSFA364, @WSDV406 (me), WRXS569, @WSGE773, @WSCY890, and WSDK964 for joining the check-in net tonight (7/30/25). Besides the check-in, tonight's question was "what movie can you watch over and over without getting tired of it?" A sample of the answers (you'll have to jump in the nets to hear the full list of answers ) were: Apocalypse Now, 12 Monkeys, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, and That Thing You Do (extended edition). Join us every Wednesday at 8pm on Brentwood 600, tone 123.0 for a quick one fun question check-in net.

For future reference, typically on GMRS radios they are type accepted meaning the first 30 channels can't be changed. if you copy pasta one of those channels to memory 31 you can change adjust add tones as you please with now issues. they are just required to lockout those first 30 for fcc approvals.

Maybe change your post title to New to Interwebs message boards?

How many times are you going to post the same question?

..we will reserve judgement for now. With a UV9g, you dont need to think about the offset - these are the basic steps: Put the radio on the correct REPEATER CHANNEL - Probably listed as either "Repeater 20" or Channel 28 Go into the Transmit CTC menu and enter the tone IGNORE/REMOVE the Receive tone as it is optional and at this point its only going to add to your confukulation Be sure to save all your changes (you may need to resort to the manual) Push the talk-button and talk, let go of button and listen for the Kerchunk/Static back from the repeater, or someone responding If it doesn't work then either you have the wrong channel, the tone is wrong, you are not close enough to the repeater (just because you can hear it does not mean it can hear you) or the repeater is down/broken/offline. The fact that you said you "have the offset" leads me to surmise that you've done it wrong.

Since the uv9g is a GMRS radio it is pretty hard to mess up. Some things to think about: Are you close enough to the repeater? If you know the general location you could move closer to it until you are sure you are actually opening the repeater. Have you tried simplex with another radio to make sure your radio is transmitting? Is there traffic on the repeater? I'm sure you have double checked your RX/TX tones but you might want to leave the RX tone off if the repeater has one so you can hear all the traffic on that frequency. I'm sure others will chime in with things I didn't mention. Don't give up.

I'm new to gmrs and can't connect to the repeater. I'm trying to connect to 462.675. I'm running a uv9g and have the offset and the ctcss tone put in as listed on mygmrs.com but nobody can hear me. Is it user error or radio error?

I'm new to the radio communications game. I had some training in service for it but gmrs is a different beast. I'm running a uv9g and think I have everything set correctly but nobody can hear me. I've got the +5 offset and the ctcss for 462.675 but I'm not getting anything back.

Especially if they’re related …

..this section of the forum is so dead, I didnt even know it was here.. Anyway.. I just setup my Spec5 Trekker Bravo, so, i'm IN !