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Hello Michael, Thanks so much for the response & insight. I'll check into the KG-UV9G.

Good Day. The 905 is not capable of FM or NOAA. I believe the KG-UV9G is capable of both. On the UV9P (the model the G version is based on) you do have to program in the NOAA frequencies manually however. Not a big deal as it is no different that entering in any other frequency. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

Ah shucks! I got y'all mixed up and replied to the wrong person...

Chassis! Modern vehicles have sensors linked to the PCM or BCM on the battery ground side. Use a factory grounding point on the body/chassis. There should be one or more near the battery. They’re easy to spot.

BTWR did me right. They got a shipment of mislabeled 1000G and I was a lucky recipient of a KG-UV980P labeled as the 1000g. Identical radios but I figure the 1000G is just firmware locked to GMRS. I called BTWR and they they were very quick to ship the correct radio and a return label. I've made a couple purchased with them namely 805G's and the 1000G plus power supply for base station, always fast shipping (when stuff is in stock), good tracking, everything arrives well packaged, and my one issue was met with a real human answering the phone and having real answers to my questions that result in quick corrective actions! Yes, will keep buying from BTWR.com! Side note: it might have been a genius sales plot because I got to play around with the 980P for a week waiting on return label and the 1000G, now I want my Ham ticket and a KG-UV980P

It's nice to learn about decent folks today. My recent service and retail encounters have been literal nightmares....so thank you for posting something to raise my spirits. My next purchase will be through Buy Two Way Radios, just because it's the only way to propagate decent behavior.

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

I had a similar issue - and the cable I had had an issue up near where it connected to the radio. While it worked fine on a different baofeng radio - the housing caught just a bit on the lip of the recessed area where it plugged into the radio - and it did not allow the two plugs to quite seat all the way. I shaved a tiny bit of plastic off the cable plug (not the radio), and once it seated properly it was ok. I have no idea if this is your situation, but it sounds very similar. Hope it helps. Jim

Hi, newbie here. first post. I'm old, as old as I would like to be . I started with radio in the mid late 60s on my dad's boat. AM and SSB with a 20 foot antenna. Since then I've lived in Florida for ~40 years. Had a boat, VHS and so forth. It wasn't until Hurricane Charlie (2004) that I realized some kind of mobile radio was a critical necessity. I live on the left coast of Florida, one street from an open pass to the Gulf and Charlie (a CAT4) was heading straight for us. We were "forced" to evacuate and at the time, with 4 and 6 year old daughters I did. Wife and I took both vehicles to go inland, and it took us 11 hours to go 100 miles to Orlando. My vehicle had a lot bigger gas tank than my wife's minivan and she almost ran out of gas. Story short, Charlie missed our area but went right over us in Orlando. The next day we decided not to go back home on I-4. Big mistake. We went through Kissimmee to get south to HWY 60 so we could get home. It didn't work. Worse, everything was pretty much destroyed. No power, no gas, no cell service. Already committed we kept going south and my Wife started running out of gas again and even worse, we got separated, with no comms. It's a lot longer story but I'll cut it short and say we got home safely, And after seeing the devastation in some of the towns we went through I made a large donation to the Salvation Army, which ran hot food canteen trucks to those areas. I saw it first hand. No comms, separated from my wife in different vehicles, two little kids, and she was running out of gas. Never again! I jumped on GMRS right then and there. Nowadays, GMRS in my area is pretty much a Business radio. that's what I hear most while driving. So, I thought an Amateur license might be a better way to go. But then I started looking at the numbers. I might be wrong, but according to the ARRL license counts they show 774,127 Amateur licensees in the whole USA. http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts So, I wondered how many GMRS licenses are out there? I'm not very good at opening strange zip/dat files but the FCC has statistics on GMRS. It seems to me, and correct me if I'm wrong but currently there are ~1.3 million GMRS licenses out there. I found that information here: https://www.fcc.gov/uls/transactions/daily-weekly If this is true, for a "teotwawki" I'll stay with GMRS for the time being, After all, the M stands for mobile. All the best, JAS

Me, I got into GMRS after having my Ham license for some years because it was “there”. It’s another means of communications. Now I find it easier to get people interested in radio if they don’t need to “take a test”. Later some change their mind and want to get their Ham license so taking the Tech Class exam isn’t so intimidating and there is a motivation to do more than talk on a few channels on a UHF only radio. I have a buddy at work who got his Tech license after talking to him about it for a while. Another buddy at work has his GMRS license. I can talk to either one but they can’t really to each other except on the CB. Now the Ham buddy is looking at getting the GMRS license too. The GMRS buddy is still thinking about getting his Tech license. Then we all can sit around and talk on the CB. 8-(