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This here is important. Sometimes just letting the kids have a radio while they drive their power wheels around gives them some good familization. My wife learned basic radio use while back country hiking. Cell service drops quick here so radios allow simplex use between hiking party members and some popular areas are covered by repeaters so that gives some duplex familization.

That's how they found a number of the 1/6 protesters. Their cell phones got pinged of the local cell towers. The Fed's got the info from the wireless carries.

Hi all. I am the CEO of Haven-Beat the Street, a non-profit organization in Atlantic City, NJ. We offer programs and services to the poor and homeless of South Jersey as well as assist those in need of rental assistance, addiction recovery and low income housing. I have am outreach team that goes into the community to engage and help anyone in need of assistance. My outreach team all have a GMRS license. There are many places throughout South Jersey that have no cell coverage but have line of site to GMRS repeaters. Also, I have purchased a repeater for use in Atlantic City that will also cover Brigantine, Ventnor, Margate and Longport, about a 15 mile radius. My problem is is after purchasing the repeater and antenna we don't have enough funds to purchase a few handhelds and the coax and antenna masts we need. Our donations have suffered during the pandemic and lock downs. If anyone knows of a company or organization that would be willing to either help us by donating or offering what we need at discount prices, that would help us tremendously. Thank you in advance and feel free to check out our website. Lou Gasparini Haven-Beat the Street CEO 46 N. Connecticut Ave. Atlantic City, NJ 08401 https://www.havenstreets.org

That is (holding down only the LED button) only to read the firmware version installed Hold down both to update the firmware when reading/writing codeplug, do not hold down any buttons when turning on the radio so far SO glad you turned me on to this HT!

Disregard for now. The software can read from the radio. I was holding down transmit and the button under it while turning the radio on. Turns out I only needed to hold down the button under transmit.

Lou: A box is going out to UPS today with the following: Baofeng UV-5R5 Baofeng BF-888S Baofeng BF-T1 and specialized programming cable (USB to USB-micro) All have been pre-programmed to your 4 repeater channels, two simplex channels and the remainder filled to the other GMRS/FRS channels as space remains. I did my due diligence and this is a tax deductible 501(c)(3) organization helping out the homeless of Atlantic City and I strongly encourage others here on myGMRS to donate their unused HTs to them (or a local homeless organization that is utilizing GMRS): https://www.havenstreets.org

Lscott, For a SHTF I recommend a backpack with a 5550e for local comms, encrypted, and a FT-817ND for long range all band/all mode work. 333 is how I would operate in a SHTF scenario. All our cars have a mobile radio on them, either a 5550e or an EVX-5300... and all of my family members carry an XPR7550e, along a complementary SL7550e with spare batteries. We initially used them only for family business matters, but now we are at a point in which we use them all the time, for personal stuff too, instead of using the cellphone. In fact, I don't carry a cellphone anymore... the infrastructure I've built is so reliable now that I no longer need for the government/goggle/et all. to know where I am at every moment by tracking my cell movement, shoving some ads in my face in the process. G.

I for one have always had in the back of my mind an emergency situation where a GMRS radio would save the day. But, as we all know, traffic is slim and folks monitoring for emergency calls is minimal. So, my Offroad club does volunteer/pro-Bono vehicle recoveries. Got contacted by a guy who was stuck at 8500' but lucky enough to have cell phone coverage due to the proximity of a large but remote mine, end of the road, 50+ miles off pavement. We got him recovered after a 2 hour drive to get to him 5 miles off the main dirt road. But that's not the story. The story is: while in route to recover #1 we're chatting on Ch. 16 truck to truck (my Kenwood 8180 and 2 of my 905G I hand out to my compatriots). We're many miles from anywhere gabbing away on the trip when I hear an unfamiliar voice. I ask who it is, he says his name and tells me they've slid a Toyota Sequoia off the road and need help. I asked how he got us and he said he put his Baofeng HT on scan and heard us chatting. Told him we'd get him on the way out from #1. This Toyota was at the top of the Ruby Mountains, Harrison Pass at close to 10k feet elevation, 30 miles of dirt then 6.5mi in, 4wd/Low Range for 6.5mi. They'd walked out 8 miles from their rig to their camp (muzzle loader deer hunt). Without giving you all the details of the recovery (didn't get it done last night with 3 capable Jeeps with winches and recovery gear in darkness; he's since hired a pro and they're in route as I write). Anyway, just a little story on how screwed these guys would have been and how lucky they are to have had a radio and someone in range. I suggested they hit the slots; even tho' their luck was bad getting stuck, they got good luck just getting out of there. No telling how long they'd been there with no comms. They spent the night in a local motel since the Toy is there only rig.

OK! My Pofung P15-UV arrived today and I have been playing with it for a few hours now. It does indeed scan CTCSS or DCS codes but slowly, but its better than nothing. Tomorrow, I will unscrew the hex and connect it to my rooftop antenna and see how it performs. I am a bit disappointed that we can only program the 8 Repeater Channels and cannot program a 2nd repeater on the same frequency with a different PL... but I did not really buy it for that reason. I might give it to my 10 year old grandson to use, too! I might go wargmrs'ing again tomorrow and try to hit this 550 Palomar repeater that another Newbie needs help with!

Email sent i will be happy to program them for you if by reply email you let me know the frequencies and tones used