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Just received a GMRS-V1 and am playing around in Chirp. Can you add into memory a repeater pair with tone? It appears that you cannot and must setup tone with the standard Repeater Channel. This works well for one repeater on a freq, but when traveling it would be nice to create a memory entry with the correct tone for other repeaters on the same freq.

Just got this radio several days ago and have been using it on the Baltimore 462.625 repeater with the supplied rubber duck antenna. Was able to talk several hours and didn't even dent the 1800 mAh battery of course it's new so time will tell, but I'll take it. I especially like the tone scanning feature it is great for figuring out repeater tones when on the road. Decided to order the Nagoya UT-308UV 21-Inch Magnetic Mount VHF/UHF (144/430Mhz) Antenna to beef things up a little. Looking at the BTECH MOBILE UV-50X2 50 Watt Dual Band Base radio haven't decided yet, but maybe a good option for the condo. I already have a Pyramid P5-21KX power supply; hoping, it will be a good fit for this radio.

I got one (BTECH GMRS-V1) about a month ago, so far, so good. I will definitely buy a few more. I am enjoying all the extra channels I could scan. The only con I found using this radio so far is not being able to transmit on channels 23 to 127. To get around this, I have been programming repeater names, freq and pl codes in the none transmit channels. While scanning I could see the name of the repeater that's active, then put the pl code into the REPEATER pair down on 15 - 22. Thanks for all the info. I also have a few Tera TR-505's, which are good radios, just not programmable unless connected to the computer. Now there are being locked to one channel and given to the wife and kids. .