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First, Thank you for your service. My Brother-In-Law was a CWO4 and I didn't hold it against him.... Just find a long pause in a conversation and ask your question or make a statement, as if you're in the barracks talking to ole buddies. When you're done and the conversation, be sure to ID yourself as you wrap it up. Welcome to the forum.

After 22yrs of Army commo this might be a fun challenge for me.

Doing a factory reset was going to be my next suggestion also.

Same here.. that should never been enabled.. I guess now we know why.. although my NEXT suggestion would have been to do a factory-reset, which would have set that setting back to off, thereby fixing the issue, so technically, given a long-enough timeline, I was right.

Sometimes breaking old habits of using military/police protocols is hard to do. Though I do say "read you Lima Charlie" to mess with people more than out of habit now days.

GMRS is very very informal. If you expect find users talking like you are used to in the military and the associated protocols you will be disappointed and a bit surprised. Like others said. Do some monitoring on the repeaters to get a feel for the usual flow of communications on that repeater. Familiarize yourself with the requirements to self id and your responsibility if immediately family members are operating on your license and you will do fine. I would avoid being too military on the radio, or you will just be made fun of. I am retired military and LE, and really had to commit to just using plain language and continually remind myself not to sound like some overly tacticool individual. Now I can sound like some rag chewing old man like the best of them if I want to. LOL

Glad I was able to help you. I didn't even think about repeater mode since I have never messed with that setting. The radio is set to receive or transmit mode when in repeater mode.

Thanks. You helped me. By asking about the other MENU settings related to TDR I went through the others and saw that somehow I had enabled the REPEATER-MODE.

Glad that you figured it out.

FIXED!!! I had MENU #54: RPT-MODE enabled to RPT-TX. I must have done that by accident as I was walking through all the menu options. I turned that to OFF and now everything is working properly. My mistake!!

So the mic button #6 and/or menu #7 work mode aren't working either?

AUTOLOCK is OFF (Menu #47). I also cannot change between channel and frequency mode

TDR should work as intended in channel mode. Getting the double beep sure sounds like the radio is locked. I tested the TDR on my KG-100G Plus and the only time I get the double beep is when the radio is locked. Double check menu #47 AUTOLOCK and make sure it is set to off. Other than that, I really don't know what to tell you. I tried duplicating your problem and the only way I get a double beep is when the radio is locked.

Well Negative Nancy, I will correct myself as far as needing to ID at the beginning of your transmission, That is not required. Everything else I stated IS correct. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-E That is directly from the FCC. As you can clearly see I have absolutely no issues admitting to my mistakes and did post the correct information. Now stop being such a negative asshat to everyone.

Radio is NOT locked. I can lock or unlock it with the D button as you said. All other Hot Buttons (A, B, C) give me a double beep. And the #8 on the mic for TDR also give me a double beep. I am in channel mode on the radio. Does that matter?

Might want to read the regs before making a statement that isn’t true. Look it up and tell everyone why you’re wrong.

Is the radio unlocked? Pushing the D button on the radio will also lock and unlock the radio. You will see a key sample on the screen if it is locked. Otherwise TDR should work when you push the #8 button on the mic as long as the radio is not locked.

The keypad on the mic is unlocked. The manual says to use the TDR function to toggle between single and dual display mode. The mic has #8 assigned to toggle TDR but all I get is a double beep. The manual also says by default TDR is assigned to Hotkey "C". But I get a double beep when I hit that button too.

Pretty much. Now a couple of us that are veterans will occasionally use military radio protocols just to message with others. In reality, just talk like you would with people in the same room as you. FCC regulations say to ID at the beginning of your conversation, and again at the end of your conversation. You also need to ID every 15 minutes if you are in a long conversation. This is standard procedures when using most repeaters. Most people don't worry about adhering to the ID requirements as much when talking on simplex channels. 100% correct.

I stay away from Kaliphornia as much as possible.

Generally speaking, the "don't be a dick" principle will get you about 98% of the way there. Despite what you might run across on here...

So the civilian version of what I'm used to. That was one of the other questions I had. How often to ID. I'll wing it and mimic what I hear till I have more experience.

We keep things pretty simple on our repeater. We want you to ID as required and no cussing since we do have kids that do use the repeater. We aren't going to go after someone for forgetting to ID as often as they should. Other than that, we don't want religion or politics discussed on any of our repeaters simply to keep conversations civil. No one likes listening to grown adults arguing like little kids.

Just talk. You will be fine!

There are no repeaters near me. And I don't know anyone in the area who uses these freqs. So I'll just scan and monitor for now