JoCoBrian

Martin Jue is 80 years old...and wants to spend what he has left of his life, enjoying his family. I'd prefer to see some outfit, like Vibroplex, buy the company and keep it going somehow. I was amazed they still did manufacturing in Mississippi....figured it was all outsourced. Best of luck to them....in 30 + years I have spent thousands with MFJ.

I prefer the Radioddity CPS to Chirp for my GM-30.

I wanted to try one but got over it. I ordered one from Amazon...2 days later its on my porch...opened it up and it's DOA. FIled an exchange with Amazon...new replacement arrives...dead in the box. I gave up and just got a refund. I know I know...they aren't all like that. I'm over it.

Ham radio and GMRS is the same as far as Morse Code goes....not required for either one.

Here's what it looks like on my GM-30 with no programming....fresh from the factory if you will...

How do you plan on doing that?

I never hear the health net reports on UHF/VHF. Seems the Tapeworm Net and the Sweaty Piles Net are usually on 75m (HF CB Radio).

On the Radioddity website.

As it's been said, and will be said again.....if you must buy junk, buy cheap junk.

I use version 2.06 on my GM-30. Works great. I don't know what the diffs are between 1 and 2.06 though.

Are you using the programming software or trying to just do it by hand through the keypad? If using Computer Programming Software, what CPS are you using?

The Antenna is RD-332 no RD 232....Radioddity web site has the cable and the antenna and the free programming software.

My wife and I have HT's and one license we both use, and we're legal.

As a happy GM-30 owner, we have TWO. I highly suggest you get the programming cable, AND up buy the higher gain RD-232 antenna. Have fun!

Any scanner that covers DC to Daylight should fit the bill. Can you narrow it down?

We bought GM-30's in February last year. Very happy with them. I live about 20 miles south of the Indy 600 repeater and we can't hit it reliably with them....even with the better RD-232 antenna. But that's OK, we're out on the edge of the repeater and lot of stuff between us and the repeater site. I fish a lot in the summertime, at a pond that is about a mile from home. I can talk with my wife and she can talk to me on the GM-30's with no problems. When she takes her daily walk around the block, she is about 2.2 miles away and we can still converse with little difficulty. These are the only GMRS radios we use currently. I do have a TK-880 Kenwood that I hope to set up as a base radio and I hope to get an antenna up 20-30 feet....should have no probs hitting Indy 600 then. 67 days until Spring...

Same reason we don't eat beef these days.

I know it use to be just downloadable. I know certain resellers used it to send their catalogs to new hams. Haven't done anything with it in 7 or 8 years....is it still a free download or do you have to pay for it now?

Forget CB. Most portable CB's are bulky, and the antennas need to be large to be the least bit effective. How far away with the SAG vehicle be from the hikers?

Pretty sure the 9R is an updated UV5R except for GMRS and IP67 waterproof...might try the UV5R/G in CHIRP. Baofeng models happen about 20 a week...so it takes time for CHIRP to catch up.

I think it hit earlier tonight....20m flat fricking died....then 40m went... gonna be pretty weird out there until sometime Saturday afternoon they say.

I have learned this week that the FCC is now scooping results at 7AM only...M-F.

No blood no foul! Hahaha...

Another tidbit to remember: On 30M there is no phone allowed. So any question about 10 Mhz band, just remember no phone.

Easy way to remember the bands 80m - 3.5 Mhz 40m - 7 Mhz 20m - 14 Mhz 15m - 21 Mhz 10m - 28 Mhz The higher the freq, the smaller the meters.