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Confirmed (again): mine gets a GPS fix (altitude & speed) with the phone UNpaired from the radio AND turned off.. Took almost 10 minutes in the house but almost immediate outside.

In the old days, .675 was an FCC designated emergency channel usable by any licensee for /emergencies/ (this is back when one applied for TWO of the main frequency pairs, and they were listed on one's license -- you could NOT use any other main frequency; if your radio was, as many business radios of the era, only a two-channel radio [A/B toggle switch], and your license did not include .675, you had no access to the emergency frequency. If you specified .675 as one of your two frequencies, then it was available for general use. When I got licensed, the Maxon GMRS 210+3 was a desirable radio: it had the 462MHz interstitials (in 1-7), .675 (as channel 8), and channels 9&10 were "shop" programmable for the two frequencies on one's license. [While FCC regulations specified a radio shop must do the programming, they included the programming manual -- take the back off, press some button to enter #9 mode, rotate dial to select frequency, press button to enter #10 mode, turn dial to select frequency] Repeater vs Simplex was handled by a front-panel button which would toggle the current channel's state. Note the age of my call-sign -- a 3x4 vs the current crop of 4x3.

Honestly, I believe you're correct 99.9% of the time. Most may never use the repeaters anyway and answer permission only out of ignorance or in hopes of maybe using it when you pass thru an area once a year. Unless there is an issue brought to the owners attention, they may not even know who is using it. I have asked to use private repeaters near me and actually talked to the operators. Seldom on a trip do I raise the owner for a chat for a chat (once but an exception).

Boy, if life were only this easy! ?

You might suggest to your doctor that he watch the video. I have two daughters who are doctors; neither is an expert on the effects of radios on pacemakers. But I would say that if you don’t feel safe you should not do it. Best wishes to you.

You appear to have a street/routing map set installed. Does that unit support topo map sets? May cost a few $$ to get one that can be downloaded (I don't recall if the 100K Topo set on my Garmin eTrex Touch 35t came with it or was a download -- the CN set I'm sure was a download from $$ CDs, and doesn't seem much different from the base maps). The Topo map overlays altitude lines on the street map. I did have to download $$ maps for my older 76CSX (or whatever notation) -- two SD cards for that, one for street maps, and the other for topo colored maps)

With a completely fresh (or very stale) GPS receiver, it can take over seven minutes just to find a strong bird and download the constellation almanac/ephemeris. More time to obtain first position fix as it cycles through the constellation looking for signals (2D position requires a lock on 3 birds, 3D position needs 4 -- 3D position is lat/long/alt/time, 2D is just lat/long/time)

OK, things to know about tones. They are REVERSE of what you might think. The INPUT tone of a repeater is the OUTPUT tone of the subscriber radio. Meaning your mobile, portable or anything other than the repeater. So the OUTPUT TONE of the repeater will be programmed as the INPUT TONE of the portable or mobile. When guys split the tones like this, it becomes a bit of a pain to figure out which is which.

? Misunderstanding? That seems more like false advertising, imo. The implication of that page of the manual is that the radio can receive gps on it's own, which per their information, isnt true. You wouldn't use a gps antenna to get the coordinates from the phone, that's just Bluetooth.

Received it today. It is very cute little radio. Oh, and it is 20W compare to HT's 5W. Programing AnyTone software is not bad at all.

Many repeater owners ignore requests.

Short range communications from the mid-1970s ? Short Range Communications with no batteries required!

My first GMRS radio ever was a beat up, used Kenwood NX300 K4 (400 - 470MHz). I still have it and it works fine. My current EDC radio is a new (not new now lol) Kenwood NX300 K4. I've tried LOTS of radios (Including Motorola commercials) and I keep going back to my trusty NX300 because it's an absolute unit and is insane reliable. The only upgrades I've done to it are the larger 4500mah pouch cell battery (Fatter) and upgraded to a Panorama 450 - 470MHz antenna!

Your transmit tone must match the input tone of the repeater. Your receive tone can either be left empty (to receive everything) or may have the output tone of the repeater. I would strongly recommend leaving it empty until you get transmit working anyway.