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Rt99 works with the Gmrs pros gps function. I don’t need my ham. Thanks 

I read on RepeaterBook that a guy was using GMRS Channel 16 north of Line A and he was fined $250k.
But seriously, as pointed out, if you are north of "Line A", then i amend my response to "there may be restrictions on what pairs you can use".

The DILA 550 repeater is an open repeater thus doesn't care what language is inputed into it. Whatever goes in should come out the same.

For a line of site that includes terrain try this tool. 

Open Google maps, find the two or more points you want to measure. right click on the first point and click measure distance, then move to the second point and right click again and click distance to here, and it will display the straight line and the distance in miles and kilometers. You can continue to left click and it will add additional points and add to the total length.

This didn't help my issue, I tried it last night and it was the same as using he "V/M" button on the radio, still locked me out of GMRS. I came across somebody who has also had this issue in the past, which provided instructions from AnyTone that did help solve the issue I had.

That was earlier in this thread 😝 around the middle of page 1, and there's a link in the last post on page 1, but here is the post again:
 

It is Version 2.30 - I just attempted the update from this post and I am now able to transmit on GMRS frequencies! I should note that at first it did not work, but then I turned the radio off, changed the mode in the V/M menu and now it works fine as far as I can tell! Now to figure out this repeater programming!

All the good YouTubers talk very slowly and deliberately. 

The kind of short version is we share a well. The booster pump and reservoir tank are closer to my house. The tank is 10 feet lower than my house and 20 above his. Over the last 6 years we have experienced at least 15 power outages with several of them being multiple days long with the longest being 5 days. The pump house with it's own electric meter is closer to me. With a transfer switch we can run the well and booster pump on a generator. The 5 day outage was accompanied by 6 feet of snow over a week which made snow shoeing up and down the hill the only method of travel. We will run the generator for the well and booster pumps on a schedule and use radios for coordination. He was using one of my radios. Now he has his own. Last week we lost power three times for 3-4 hours at a time. We have started turning on our radios when we lose power just in case. 

Do you make your own radios? 

Midland FRS/GMRS radios, IMHO are junk.  Their design engineers from what I have seen, apparently never used an FRS/GMRS radio, or talked to anyone who did.  Let's start with their ht's. AFAIK, none of them are repeater capable.  Last time I checked, their "go-to" ht battery was a whopping 700mAh.  You would think that a company that pushes its stuff as being for people enjoying the great outdoors would offer something considerably greater (at least 4×) for portables than 700 mAh.  This includes their "Base Camp" radio.  I guess they figure you won't wear out your hand OR the hand crank charging it back to 700 mAh. 😆
Then there are the mobile radios.  Again, far as I know, none of them have dual conversion receivers, which can make a big difference in keeping noise and interference from nearby transmitters on GMRS as well as other sources out of your speaker.  They have some great designs as far as "controls on the microphone" go, but drop the ball with the rest of the package.  With the exception of their current "top-of-the-line" mobile @ 50W, none of their mobiles allow for adding additional channels beyond the packed 22 for repeaters or simplex.  Midland tries to excuse this incompetence by saying it makes the radio easier to use for people wanting to just communicate vehicle-to-vehicle such as off-roaders, which are one of their targeted bases.  What they don't tell you, is giving you the option to add channels would in no way make their mobiles more difficult to use and would greatly enhance their usefulness down the road if/when a customer decided they want to have access to repeaters.  For instance, what if your off-roading buddies and yourself explored an area where the two nearest repeaters were on 462.675, one 20 miles east of your area of operation with a 141.3 PL and one 20 miles west of it with a 173.8 PL.  Depending on where in your area you are, you will pick one up much better than the other.  Should you need help from outside of your group, one of those repeaters will be necessarily how you summon help (breakdown, tow, medical, etc).  If you have one programmed into your radio, to access the other, you will need to program in its tone, first.  If it is an emergency, it will be a pain to have to change the settings, especially if you have not done so before and are well-versed in the procedure.  Having the means to add channels, you can have them both in your radio and changing from one to the other is as simple as turning a knob or pressing an up/down button.  Midland design engineers decided you do not need that convenience.  Ditto if you travel between the two repeaters regularly.  You might live near the 141.3 repeater but drive to work which is in the 173.8 repeater's coverage area.  To be able to use the 173.8 repeater, you will need to pull over and change the settings going to work and again going home to use the 141.3.  Being able to just turn a knob or press an up/down button would be much easier but again, Midland design engineers decided that you don't need that convenience.

Yes, I got my BTECH PC03 FTDI cable working yesterday under Win11 ARM in Parallels on my Ventura Mac Mini M2. I did have to download the drivers and go through two driver updates (one for the USB cable, a second to create a virtual COM port) inside of Windows.
There is an installation guide, along with the driver downloads at https://ftdichip.com/drivers/vcp-drivers/
Note that the ARM64 version of Win11 does NOT do automatic installs; the installation guide clearly notes that and has a manual install set of instructions towards the end of the installation guide.
I have a Baofeng GM-15 Pro and used the Radioddity GM-30 CPS as suggested elsewhere. The thing is, it would work once, then freeze if I tried to use it again, and Icouldn't even quit the task. I eventually stumbled on the compatibility wizard in Win11 which set the CPS to "smart" emulation (or similar wording) mode, which seemed to fix the freezes.
Why can't we just have native USB-C for charging and for programming? Seriously…

Hehe, I had a hard time reading that at first. 😆

https://www.texasgmrs.net/ has almost every repeater in Texas.

Thank you sir! While my original code plugs are technically copyrighted, I know that people share them, and in this case, since you were just trying to help someone convert the publicly published PDF into a CSV to help him out, I wasn't at all rubbed in the wrong way, so to speak.  So no worries at all, but I certainly appreciate the acknowledgment and the action you took.

I am actually in the process of creating automated digital products for my SHTF codeplugs, which will be pre-formatted for a host of radios (not just my own co-designed Wouxun models), and at a low enough price point that people won't need to bother trying to pirate them. It will be basically just enough to cover my time to keep them updated and manage the orders/accounting on the back-end. Hopefully that will help everyone involved.

Youtube is probably a good place to start, but here are some basics:
Channels 1-22 are listening & talking channels. There are no globally accepted channels like CB Ch9 or CB Ch19 on GMRS To communicate with others, you tell your buddy/family member, etc to put their radio on the same channel as you, get within range, push the button, then talk. If you are looking to talk with strangers as a hobby, you bought the wrong radio.
To make things more confusing, GMRS repeaters share Channels 15-22, so if someone is talking on a repeater you will hear them on channels 15-22, but (generally/normally) they will only be able to hear you if you configure your radio to use that same repeater.
Again, Youtube is a great place to learn everything, but when you have a specific question, this place isnt too bad.

Hi @OffRoaderX,
 
If your question is actually "How do I get drivers for my radio software to run on Windows 11 emulated in Parallels on MacOS with M1 hardware?", then you might be in for a bit of trial and error and I'm excited to know what you or someone else in our group can find!  If I read your question slightly differently, as "How do I get radio software which only runs on Windows (7/8/9/10/11) to work with drivers for radio software to run on may MacOS M1?" I may have an alternate solution from the open source emulation community.
I'm also curious, are you using the Windows 11 ARM preview or the x86 version of Windows 11 inside the Parallels Virtual Machine (VM) environment?

Issues with driver versions and binary compatability
If you're runing the ARM version of Windows 11, it stands to reason you'd need an ARM version of the driver.  If you're running an x86 version of Windows 11, its stands to reason you'd need an x86 version of the driver.

Trying an alternate solution:
For the alternate solution, have you considered using UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/) for the emulator on the M1 mac?  It uses QEMU under the covers which emulates x86 on the M1 ARMs. Is the parallels solution going thorugh Rosetta as a translator?  That may be a good question to help perform a situation apprasial on if the problem is driver related, guest operating system related, or x86 driver on ARM related.
According to Parallels, "To run Windows 11 and its applications on a Mac with Apple M Series Chip, you need to install Windows 11 on ARM that can run the majority of Intel-based Windows 11 applications by using a built-in emulator." (Parallels, 2022)
I could see where an x86 driver might not operate on the ARM version of Windows 11. 
If the goal is, "programming radios with Windows based software running on a Windows based Guest OS, on a MacOS host OS, running on Apple M1 hardware", the UTM approach may better meet your needs.
I've come across lots of issues with the cables on certain radios, for example the cable for the Radioddity DB-20G on Windows 11 has well documented driver issues, there is a developers version of Windows (10 day temporary license for x86 version of Windows 7, 8, 10 that may be of use) if you need that magical version of the prolific driver on x86 or if you need a version of windows old enough to run the driver you are using to temporaily identify the problem on.  There have been some issues where an older prolific driver may work, this is only known to work on x86 versions of Windows 7,8,9,10 (Duffy, 2022)
If you choose the alternate solution, or have any successes with the path you've chosen I'd like to hear about it!  Good luck!
 
References:
Parallels. (n.d.). KB parallels: About parallels desktop for mac with Apple M Series Chip. Virtual machines created on Intel-based Mac computers have  that is fundamentally . Retrieved November 19, 2022, from https://kb.parallels.com/125343
Duffy, O. (n.d.). Prolific PL-2303 problems. Retrieved November 19, 2022, from https://owenduffy.net/software/ATB/PL2303.htm
   

It's amazing how things can work out when you have the patience to listen to those that are trying to help you.

For the record, no, I did not "threaten" anyone with a restocking fee - they asked what my return policy was and I offered it - I don't run a radio rental service and when someone is unwilling to go through the most basic troubleshooting, especially on a problem that I've solved for several others in the past, and they can't wait even a day for a response (to an email sent after-hours) before they demand a return (because they know they are right and I'm wrong) then it's nearly impossible to satisfy them. So bet it.

I was thinking large heat sink. 😀

Based on where you are, the frequency you are hearing and your post on the Northwest Houston 725 repeater page where you say you hear them on channel 22. I would say you are hearing that repeater on simplex. They won’t hear you. You need to join their repeater network if you want to converse. You will need to program their tones on channel 30 in your radio which already has the needed +5 offset. Repeater channels/frequencies have an input of 467 and receive on 462. So this repeater is tx 467.725 and rx 462.725. You hear them but you are not on their input frequency and don’t have tones set to access the repeater. You can join their network here. It’s a membership linked network. If you haven’t already I would recommend you download Chirp for programming your radio. It’s easier and you’ll be able to see and understand what is going on more when you see things in this format. Good luck. 

Yup.. a small group of idiots that we call The Kiddy Kartel decided they didnt like it when a few founders of the group that put Delta up talked and started jamming them all the time, so we said "F-that" and repurposed it.

Oh I didn’t forget. But then you knew that. You’re just being condescending now. 
 
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STRANGER DOESN'T LIKE MY OPINION.
PLEASE RESPECT MY PRIVACY DURING THIS
DIFFICULT TIME.
 

Rather than modifying the 4 person intercom hardware and the work of trying to find and wire the necessary hardware, why not just buy a headset from Paradan and connect it to the radio? I have one of their headsets on my ICOM radios and it is extremely robust and comfortable.

Good day!
New GMRS user, but long time radio geek 🙂

I was a CBer back in the 70s, and then got my ham license in the mid 80s (N9FIV). As life changed I let that ticket expire but was re-licensed in January, 2022 and I am now N7BBQ as a ham and WRXZ627 on GMRS.
I retired in April, 2022 and we sold our house in the Chicago area in October, 2022. My wife, adult daughter and I are now traveling full time in our 35' motorhome. I picked up a couple of Baofeng UV-9G handhelds mainly to use as we are traveling. I also have my ham HF gear and a dual band HT with me and mainly use the HF gear for Parks On The Air activations and hunting.
Outside of radio and RVing we are BBQ and Steak Cook Off competitors, although we retired from BBQ Competitions after 14 years. We still plan to do some steak cook offs when we can.
 
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