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Being realistic, there is minimal possibility of causing harmful interference and obviously the FCC won't be sending jack booted thugs thru the door the second you key up. But considering this is a GMRS forum, nobody here will help you use any radios in any illegal fashion, on GMRS or any other band. The bottom line is that there is no scenario where you can use those Retevis RT5 (re-branded Baofeng UV-5) radios on the GMRS band (with or without a license) and be in full FCC compliance, as the radios lack the proper FCC type certification.

Make sure you've got the duplexer connected properly (LOW to transmit, HIGH to receive) and you don't have a cable or connector issue on the jumpers. To me, that's your likely problem from what you're describing.

> I know that with Ham we need to have at least 4 people to start a club, is it similar to GMRS? That's only if you want to be an ARRL-affiliated club (and honestly, who would want to be affiliated with them anymore after recent headlines..)