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As if the volume were turned off? Humm... The only option I see is to select a speaker location w/o a speaker maybe? Because the Volume button is a selector for many functions of the radio I guess they don't want you to be able to mute the sound and forget the unit is actually ON? PWR switch will be your friend then...

Being a ham, I had limited experience with fox hunting. Fox hunting is the hobby's name of locating a transmitter. I took the information I had and moved forward. I could hear the signal in my house with an antenna on a portable in one direction so that burned off about 85% of the area needing checking. I removed the antenna and began driving around until a signal returned on the radio. This further reduces the area as a portable without an antenna will only pick up stronger signals. Holding the radio to my body blocks signals from one direction, and I turn until the signal sounds strongest. Doing that a few times and I ended up driving past the guys house while he was outside. Seeing a vehicle with warning lights and 3 antennas freaked him out cause he and his buddys ran inside and the transmission stopped soon after. I also noticed a few minutes later when I drove past again that the antenna on his car was gone. I did not confront the person, that is not what self policing (which is what HAM and GMRS is) is about. You do the leg work, gather enough evidence, and forward it to the FCC who may do something if the interference can/has caused property damage, or if the incident presents a public safety hazard. Confronting someone this day in age is a good way to get your head blown off, or be posted on the news as racist, or some other crazy negative like that.

I owner two mixed code repeaters. There were two reasons for doing this. A ) Security. For a bit I had an unknown user keying the repeater for minutes at a time. After asking the user not to do this they chose to key the repeater for nearly 30 minutes. Of course the repeaters TOT tripped after 2 minutes, however the user continued to key either until they were bored, or until their radio finally killed itself, nearly 30 minutes and long enough for me to figure out where they were. So I changed only the input tone so the user couldn't trip the repeater (or its twin) again. B ) We kept the original output tone to make it seem like we never changed tones at all. Trying to "scan" the repeaters output would only give the 223 code for output. I figured this would frustrate anyone who is trying to get access without checking with me first.

Nothing wrong with a J-Pole if it connects you to whom you want to communicate with. I have two of them that I use indoors regularly with my HTs. The higher placed outdoor antenna definitely does better though. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

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The firmware download is on the Baofeng store page: https://www.baofengradio.com/products/uv-5x

That may be a very good thing. Let’s us all be good stewards of the GMRS service by our example so it does not run away from us and turn into trash like CB did in so many places. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

After spending $70 on it, I use it every chance I get.

The NA-771 is tuned to the amateur frequencies, not GMRS, that's why the SWR was so high 440-450 MHz compared to 462-467 MHz, that's a 20+ MHz difference The stock antennas are usually very broad-banded & inefficient I just looked at mine & it's labeled 136-174/400-520 That's probably the antenna from the UV-82 radios The least expensive quarter-wave for GMRS [that I know of] is a Nagoya NA-701C, which is tuned to the VHF/UHF commercial frequencies [so it would also cover MURS on VHF] and is way closer to GMRS It's sold in the mygmrs.com store for $14.99 https://shop.mygmrs.com/collections/antennas/products/nagoya-na-701c-antenna You spent $7.79 & some time to get an antenna that will perform on the GMRS frequencies I'd say that you broke even

As low as we all remain good practicing stewards of GMRS I am certain we can have a positive impact. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM