Socalgmrs

It’s called desense. It has nothing to do with the repeater. The radio that is tx,ing will mute out the other radios rx. I’ve never actually had this issue but it’s very common

If you’re getting the kerchunk or tone back your settings are correct. I’d bet yuur just too far away. How far are you? What antennas are you running? Do you have line of sight? What are your surroundings like?

She landed safety in the South Pacific and retired as a good little spy.

Might want to try using the map. It’s much asker and give a clearer total picture of your surroundings.

Just pick the correct repeater channel for the frequency on the repeater and add the tones.

Well that stinks. I don’t like to see people getting out of gmrs. I don’t see any repeaters in Albany Georgia that’s for sure. Might still be some just not on this site. Ham may be better option in This case. This is why it’s so important for new gmrs users to understand that gmrs is first and foremost a bring your own friends kinda deal. It’s designed for use while doing an activity with friends or family. If more people really understood this I don’t think we would have as many frustrated single station people getting out of the gmrs world shortly after getting in. to the op, Sir, unless you really need to recoup the money I would hang on to your h8. It can listen to so much that may come In Handy at any time. You can also transmit on ham in life saving times should the need arise. In the mean time maybe you can be the catalyst for change in your home town. Talk with people, make a face book group, (if you have face book) look into local cert or other emergency groups. Walk into the local fire station and talk with the crew. Talk with immediate neighbors. Try to get them into radios for local emergency comms. One of our local mountain communities has a sweet older lady that runs a simplex net on FRS radios for her neighbors. Many options to be the spark that starts a gmrs fire in your area.

Hahahah wash a jeep? That’s funny. I bet you collect ducks also.

It should be fine for rx But why. In reality your HT probably rx’s the same with or with out an external antenna.

Yup FRS radios no problem unfortunately for business to use. That’s really what murs should be for but…..

Why? Bad rx or tx is usually not going to be fixed with 2 antennas. It would cost more in parts then buying one good antenna.

What’s broken? It’s works just fine for me and every one I know.

I had a 712efc got 200miles gmrs. Went with a 9nc and now get 250miles full quieting. Simplex. It’s up 25’ to the base plus the 17’ of the antenna. I’m at 4500’. I’m the other direction I’ve got 10,000 ft mountains behind me and a repeater 35miles away in the other side of the mountains at 2000’. I can hear and talk on it with the 9nc and my 50w base station. I radiate about 675w. Loveed my 712 and an looove the 9nc and picks up murs just fine

You should not need firm ware update to transmit to a repeater. Also you’re most likely not going to hit a repeater 20miles away with an ht. Yes it can happen but under most circumstances it’s not going to happen. Software/firm issues are very common on tid radios. Especially the h3/8 series. If these radios can not transmit properly contact the seller and have them send you ones that work correctly out of the box as all radios should. Especially gmrs locked radios.

I’m glad it works out for your needs but man if I only got 3.5 miles from my ht I’d toss them in the trash. I get 10-15 miles inside the car with no external antenna and more than 30miles with an ht and a ut72 mag mount. But if it meets your needs great.

DTMF is not used very much in gmrs. All radios using it must be set up the same way to be able to have it sent and received. DTMF is not allowed on most repeaters since it’s an audible tone and would get super annoying real fast if all users had it turned on. Each character has 2 tones, it uses 4-16 characters so 8-32 tones every time some one keys up would get a little crazy. it is used for station I’d but users would have to be looking at the radio then know what numbers belong to what person. It is used for selective calling but again all radios would have to be set up this way. Some radios have control and kill functions that use DTMF and it’s used to send data on data radios. You can even log into hub nets if you a ham and have one local to you. But for your average person using gmrs radios especially on repeaters it has very little to no use.