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Some GMRS radios can be hacked and some can't. It's easier to just buy one that's already open like the UV-5R8W. Who said that?

They must be random about this or maybe it's a new thing. I got an email for my GMRS and my ham.

@Sshannon It's great that you are helping him out like that. Guys like you restore my faith in humanity.

Make sure you are using channels above 22. Channels 1-22 are simplex channels, 23+ are repeater channels and sometimes just RX channels.

Welcome @WSAD366 I envy your call sign and your mobile radio.

Oh, I kept answering him over and over and apologizing profusely while reminding him is was going to be a while before I was going to pull over and change it. You know, it's just to dangerous to change it while driving.

I'm using a 778 with a Nagoya UT72 antenna and it's working great for me. It's unfortunate but there will always be people like that in the world that want to crap on any new comers and not let them into "their" club. Like @OffRoaderX said, ignore them and just talk to normal people.

A link to where I bought it? Here. In the AnyTone software, select Model and then select Band2. I did not find a place to do this in CHIRP but you can do everything else in CHIRP. BTW, this is the latest "VOX" version of the radio and programming software. Strange name but that is what they call it. Maybe the previous version didn't have VOX. Also, I'm pretty sure you can do this on the radio I just chose to use the software to do it and now I use CHIRP for everything else. Here it is in CHIRP:

Welcome @WRKH268. Lots you can do with GMRS.

That's strange. I had no problem at all with mine.

Here's one that might work for you.

@tweiss3 and @Lscott are are pulling stuff out of the deep freeze to make room to hide more radios.

As @WRYS709 pointed out, it's also sold as the AnyTone AT-779UV. I'm using the AT-778UV which is basically a sibling of the 779. It's not a high dollar radio but it's very nice for the price.

I can't say in your particular case but I had a situation once where, I upgraded chirp, then tried to set duplex to off on some channels, and chirp was filling those cells with a bunch of ???. Within 2 or 3 days, there was a new version of chirp again and after I upgraded chirp the problem went away.

LOL! @Lscott your questions are always way over my head. Glad there are people here that can answer.

I have no real preference concerning the roger beep but "some people" really get their panties in a wad over it. One morning on my way out of town at about 4:30am I was using a new UV-5R and the roger beep was on. Some guy came on and chewed me out for about 15 minutes. Some people really need to get a life.

I agree with @WRYZ926. A dedicated GMRS antenna will be better but there are others that will work quite well. The Nagoya UT72G is a GMRS antenna but I'm using the UT72 VHF/UHF antenna and it is working just fine.

Welcome @WSAG780 and @WSAH452. GMRS is a great service and I know you will both enjoy it. As @gortex2 you should use type certified radios but don't sweat it. Half or more of the people I talk to on GMRS aren't using type certified radios and no one cares as long as they stick to all the rest of the regs.

Just a little anecdote on commercial radios. A few months ago I was given an old Kenwood TH-75A. I also have a brand new Baofeng UV-5R8W. Last night I was listening to the NOAA Galveston station and decided to check out the difference between these two radios. I still like the Baofeng but WOW! the Kenwood sounded significantly better.

@RogerCarper Repeater channels start at 23 and go from there. 1-22 are simplex channels and will not transmit on repeaters. Also, some GMRS radios will not let you do certain things in VFO mode so make sure you are in Memory/Channel mode. Programming with a computer is almost always much easier than programming directly on the radio.

Can you say that one more time? I didn't quite catch that.

I must be lucky, I've never had any problems with my CCRs.

In the image, you don't have any tones set on the repeater channels.

@ADVBikerRadioGirl welcome! Important work you are doing. Be safe.