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Skipping a channel during scan should be accomplished by turning ScanAdd OFF.

I use this 72" driveway marker and zipties. Then I hose clamp it to my mast.

Common in the UK and probably much of Europe. Most common tone is 1750. After a period of time, the repeaters basically turn off the transmitter and wait for a wake-up tone to be received before they'll pass traffic. May or may not use CTCSS during traffic...

Not really. Birdies are generated internally, when tuning to frequencies that heterodyne with the processor clock resulting in a tone in the audio range. Beat shift is found in my Kenwood TH-D74A (and an older TH-D7), TH-F6A; those weren't cheap radios when new (D74A: $610; F6A: $390). The TS-2000 doesn't have a shift entry, but the manual does document the most likely frequencies for birdies (especially as it has a secondary VHF/UHF receiver besides the main transceiver circuits); similar for the TS-590SG.

Thank you Sshannon...

From this page: https://www.miklor.com/UV82/UV82-MenuDef.php R-TONE Repeater Tone - Used to activate those repeaters requiring a specific audible tone to be transmitted for access. - Sending tone requires first pressing the PTT, then pressing the [F] key. This is not to be confused with a sub-audible CTCSS or DCS code.

Here are plans for a GMRS J-Pole that is about 18" in total length built from a piece of 300 ohm TV twin lead. It can be put into a PVC stub and hidden on the roof as a new vent pipe. J-Pole Emergency Flexible Antenna (fiu.edu)

Getting an antenna on the roof, 10 miles with 5 watts is quite reasonable even with the dinky little ones that come with Midland's "Micromobile". Actually, in a pinch, throwing one of those on the lid of your gas grill does pretty good as well - just getting it outside of the home will help a lot. As a rule of thumb, in GMRS in most situations, the extra height of getting it to the top of the roof will help range more than a lower-down higher performing antenna. However, topography around you will impact that more than anything - for instance, anything bolted on to the backside of my home does as well as something on the roof because of my local topography - I can reach about 1 mile in one direction, and 50+ in the other so long as I have at least 10 watts. Honestly, so long as you're within about 30-ish degrees of vertical, not worth it to bend the antenna. Anything under 3dbi gain is going to be effectively an omnidirectional antenna anyway, and you're close enough to vertically polarized that you can talk to all of the other vertically polarized GMRS users no problem. At most normal antenna sizes, the polarization will matter about as much as pure antenna gain. Whatever you do, ground it correctly and get a good lightning arrestor - I use TMS personally. Lightning strikes are no joke! IMHO: If you have a gable, I'd run it discretely along or behind the facia board, and just drop an NMO mount into the center of the vent (maybe after making a flat area with a hammer) at the top of the roof, at about the same distance from the end as it is wide, seal it thoroughly to the roof, and then slather the connector with dielectric grease and put one of the little 2.1 db gain antennas. I wouldn't even bother with a Laird Phantom, Midland Ghost, or similar, they're really great on vehicles, but on a structure, they don't perform much if any better than the 1/4 wave verticals that everybody gives you for basically free. If I didn't have a gable, then I'd punch it down through the barrier into the attic, then seal it all up afterwards.

I am also new here. Fun to see some call signs close to mine. I picked up a Baufeng UV-9G for my first radio and dove in with Chirp pretty quick and have programed some local repeaters in it successfully along with some local scanner channels. I have a wish list that includes the KG-UV9GX. With the backorder issue I thought to start out with something I could readily get (I was impatient, lol). It also didn't hurt that the price tag was cheep while getting my feet wet (IP67). So far I am pleased and enjoying learning about it all and can see adding more in the future. Those KG935g's look to be a nice radio. GL - WRUU653

Wow, three of y'all new folks with new KG935g's, IP66 rated radios. You make this "newbie to this forum" blush with my two little $40 Radioddity GM-30s, which are not IP66 rated and melt like the wicked-witch-of-the-west in rain. Those are great radios (according the Youtube Reviews I've listened to); hope you enjoy 'em!

From what I saw -- it runs continuously with a two hour sleep IF the "retry" count reached 50. There is a "break" statement near the bottom, but I didn't try to match it up with any indented loops (assuming there is an indented/sub-loop within the "forever" {while [1]} loop).

I have the N9TAX GMRS/Murs w/16' and BNC connector. Use it on my mobile/Base. I love it. Gets me out to repeaters 30-40 miles distance. If you need to mount it to a pole, lash it to a 5' driveway marker using zip ties.

Welcome! I got my HAM license about 18 months ago and spent a fair amount of time learning to manually program some amateur repeaters by hand before it became 2nd nature. For larger banks of repeaters I do use a program and cable. My Wouxun KG-UV9GX is still on backorder - and likely will be for another 6 weeks or so.

Based upon the manual, the US version of the Maxon is also NARROW FM ONLY.