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I was looking online to see what I needed to listen to my local police. I use an Android scanner app that has some area police, but not mine. So I wanted to see what equipment I would need. I found they are using 155.43. I realized that should be in the TR-505 range. I decided to see if I could program that frequency into the Tera, and it accepted it along with the PL code. It picked up traffic just fine. I then went back and programed the transmit on that channel to a GMRS frequency to be safe in case someone keyed the mic. It is working great. Not the intended use for it, but it is nice to having to buy new equipment.

I have no issues with any of the inexpensive Chinese radios as long as you keep them off my GMRS repeaters. After trying to diagnose some audio issues for weeks it came down to a few operators on Baofeng's. Second hand part 90 equipment is easy to find and is inexpensive, some of it is even part 95 approved. Every radio has its place and Baofeng's place is not in GMRS service. Just my $.02 Corey

No. You cannot use that radio at all on GMRS. It doesn't matter how you use it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

The trouble with Baofeng (and a bunch of the other cheap chinese radios) is that they have poor specs and no consideration for actually keeping their transmission on frequency - and not throwing out spurious energy onto other adjacent and nearby frequencies. The specs that they do publish are at best optimistic, and when you compare them side by side on a service monitor with an actual well built radio, you see that they're nowhere close to what a real radio can do. You will also see that the receiver is easily overloaded if you key up with another nearby radio on a different frequency. Search "direct conversion radio" on Youtube and you'll see a few videos showing the effect.