SeaProbe

I am part of a volunteer disaster relief group and their recommendation was to buy GMRS hand-helds… so I did. They work just fine and the local emergency services have a GMRS base station to coordinate our exercises.

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…

Hello all, I purchased my first GRMS radio, a Baofung GM-15 and also received my license after paying the fee… My expected use is working as a volunteer for disaster relief and so communicating with my fellow volunteers. As we are all volunteers, we provide our own equipment… Now that I have the radio, I am keen to learn as much as I can about GRMS operations.