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I haven’t heard of any mobiles that violate that particular rule. How would they be certified?

Maybe, but you weren’t specific enough.  The repeater’s Output is its TX but is heard on your radio’s RX.  
Similarly, your radio’s TX frequency or TX tone, must match the repeater’s Input frequency and tone.
Your radio transmits at 467.xxx MHz to the repeater.  The repeater transmits at 462.xxx to anyone listening. There are only eight 467/462 repeater frequency pairs. Those frequencies are established by the FCC rules.
Nearly all repeaters require a tone, otherwise they would be re-transmitting everything they receive.
Your radio transmits a specific tone (CTCSS or PL, they’re two names for the same thing) or digital pattern (DTCSS or DCS or DPL) to open the repeater.  That’s called the input or uplink or even receive tone for the repeater.  
The repeater usually sends a tone or digital pattern along with its transmissions. That’s the output or downlink or transmit tone of the repeater.  Those terms are standardized so we can share information. The repeater output tone is for your convenience to lessen interruptions, but it doesn’t provide any kind of security.  
There are only eight frequencies that repeaters can receive on and only eight that they can transmit on. The frequencies that repeaters transmit on are the same as people use for simplex communications as well. If you are within range of a couple of repeaters that receive and transmit on the same frequencies, using different tones can ensure that your transmissions are being repeated by the correct one and that you’re hearing the correct one.  
So, for example, repeater Sandhawk and repeater Black Brant both receive on 467.550 MHz and transmit on 462.550 MHz.  They’re far enough apart that they don’t usually bother each other, but you happen to live where you receive them both.
Sandhawk uses an uplink or input tone of 67.5 Hz.  That means that you MUST set your transmit or TX tone to 67.5 Hz or Sandhawk will just disregard your transmissions.
Sandhawk uses a different tone, 100 Hz, for its output tone.  Using two different tones for TX and RX is referred to as having a “split tone”.  It’s usually done by repeater operators who want to protect against unauthorized access to their repeaters.  Why? Because it’s easy to scan for the repeater output tone.  It’s not as easy to scan for the input tone.
The Black Brant repeater uses 103.5 Hz for both input and output.
What a lot of people don’t initially understand is that these tones work like filters.  If I set my handheld radio to a receive tone of 103.5 Hz my radio will only break squelch when it receives a transmission that incorporates that tone, which would be the Black Brant repeater.  If I set my radio receive tone to 100 Hz it will only reproduce transmissions it receives which include a 100 Hz tone.  But, if I don’t set a receive tone in my radio, it does no filtering.  It literally reproduces everything that has a signal strength sufficient to break squelch.  That’s useful, especially when trying to troubleshoot.
Don’t fall into the trap of referring to a tone by a number or some other shorthand because not all radios number the codes the same.  Always refer to the frequency of the tone, such as 103.5 Hz, or the DCS code.
Not all radios include all the tones.  Motorola and Midland include the standard tones, but fail to include some of the tones included in the overseas brands. Thus they might not be able to access some repeaters.

Your radios TX is transmit. Your radios RX is receive. The repeater is going to RX (recieve) your TX and TX (transmit to your receive) RX.  Yes it can be complicating. What you need to remember is the TX and RX listed is where you need to program those numbers for your radio.  Hope that helps. 

I'm no guru either but I recognize the value of real-world examples. 👍

I got my 50FT of LMR400, pre-cut with ends on it from Amazon.. Was delivered the next morning.

Let’s say you have 30 watts at the SO-239 on the radio. 
Then you have the impedance mismatch so a certain amount is reflected back into the radio. That leaves 20 watts going in the direction of the antenna. 
Then you have a loss of 1.7 dB, which is about 30% of the 20 watts that’s lost. So you’re down to about 12 watts. I’m estimating rather than calculating so these are pretty sloppy numbers. 
You don’t say whether the antenna gain is dBi or dBd. Assuming the best you’ll have about the same RF in certain directions as 25 watts in an isentropic antenna (it really is only 12 watts, but in some directions the RF field will be as strong as a 25 watt signal into an antenna with no gain. 

Thanks Randy, great video.

I agree with the first part of your post but I believe an open repeater means the owner is inviting others to use it. You will know if it’s open or not by it being listed that way. Also why does a squelch tail or roger beep mean it’s an open repeater?

Unfortunately these two sentences pass along bad information. 
I’ll take them separately:
Yes, it’s generally best to use feedline that matches the impedance of the radio, but  swapping a minor impedance mismatch has fewer disadvantages than using RG-58 or 58x which has incredibly high attenuation at GMRS frequencies.

Using 75 ohm feedline with a 50 ohm radio simply means that you start with a theoretical SWR of 1.5. That’s not terrible and PL-259 connectors are available for both of the common 75 ohm cables. So are adapters. 
 
RG-11 attenuates RF in the 400 MHz range at the rate of 3.5 dB per 100 feet. That’s a little more than half of your power lost in the cable. 
RG-58 attenuates RF in the 400 MHz range at the rate of 11.2 dB. That’s more than 90% of your power lost.
 
I wouldn’t use RG-58 for GMRS feedline for anything longer than 10 feet. 
 
https://www.w4rp.com/ref/coax.html

I am dead-center in the path of the storm... Extreme rain and hazardous squalls were predicted to arrive beginning at 4am... it is now almost 1PM and we got some light drizzle that stopped a few hours ago, and I think we had a couple of wind-gusts that might have topped 3-4mph...
The local news is really having a rough time finding anything to scare us with but God bless them, they're trying.

please remember that there is no such thing as a "small hurricane" and that even "only" a tropical storm can be very dangerous, so don't let your guard down (trust this Floridian who weathered 8 hurricanes and too many storms to count!).  Also, please remember that most people die *after* the storms.  And we all know that anything named "Hillary" is infinitely evil, right? 🙂
Good luck and God Bless.

If you are in Southern California you can hear info on the tropical storm coming on the NOAA channels. A first for California. I am picking up info at 162.400 and 162.475 north of Santa Barbara.

Water coming down strong,, had to sand bag the back side of our house to keep water from breaching inside..  And this is just the beginning for us...... GMRS band pretty busy today..  I hope you all are staying safe  

You should be able to listen to your emergency frequencies as long as they are within the freq-range that the 935 can pick up, and are analog signals.

If I remember correctly the city of Santa Clarita doesn't have a police department. They have a Los Angelas County Sheriff's Department substation there, Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station. If it is still that way then their radios are above 480.0000 MHz which puts them out of the range of the KG-935G Plus. Hopefully someone can give you a more up to date answer. The KG-935G Plus is a fun radio either way.

@rdunajewski Another seven duplicates posted. This time from WRYH413.  

This has become so common.  Others who have done this said it was by mistake. I wonder if there is a way to fix this problem? Add a pop up when posting a repeater that request verification of ownership? Enter password to verify you own this repeater? Changing the phrase “my repeaters” to “repeaters I own”?  I am not a coder so I have no knowledge of the best way to fix this but it seems like it is worth a look. 

Rather than deleting it, why not tell us how you solved it so others benefit also?

Take that one step further and right click on your distance line and choose 'Elevation Profile'..... Good for line of sight searching..  BTW,, i believe this only works in the GoogleEarth desktop version.    

To follow up, I got the radio working.

I emailed back and forth with Buy Two Way Radios and eventually sent it back for an RMA. I spoke with their engineer on the phone while they had it and he was able to connect to repeaters without issue, so they sent the radio back. I received it yesterday. I got it all setup and I still could not connect to the repeater I wanted.

I started to think to myself. I could connect to the repeater with my KG935G+ and it's only a 5watt handheld radio. So, the only thing I never tried before was turning the power output down on the KG1000G+. I changed it from high power to medium power (which is 20watts) and low and behold, it connected!

I spoke with another operator; he told me it sounded great, a full 5x5. So, every other configuration setting I had was correct, I feel better about that.
We did net check-ins a little later on and I mentioned my success and what I had changed, and another operator said he had experienced the same issue once before with a Motorola radio he owned. 

Can anyone explain, why lowering the power output of my radio would have made a difference? I'm just curious.

I dont know if they have SAR/Anyone always listening, I'll leave that up to a local to answer, but I can tell you that unless you have good line-of-sight to whoever is monitoring, or the repeater they are monitoring, it wont matter.

IMO, your best option is to not go alone and take a reliable source of communication like a Garmin InReach Sat-communicator, or a new iPhone with satellite connectivity..
Otherwise, unless you have someone waiting & listening for you, and you KNOW that your radio will reach them from wherever you may be (which is doubtful), you do not have a reliable means to call for help.. Or Pizza..
Source: I have done a bit of high-temperature, long-range hiking in the desert
 

The software is free and the cable comes with the radio at no extra charge.

Lol yes it's a mystery to me why CB keydown contests are a thing. But hey maybe that's what's missing from GMRS. 

You have a ground floor unit or a multilevel unit building? If you have a top floor unit up several levels all you need do is clear the roof line. That’s effectively a small tower, better than what a lot of other people have.

V/M and Main move the cursor and up and down change the selection of the field the cursor is at if I remember right. Though I don't think you can move to highlight the firmware version on that particular screen, but I also haven't tried.