WRYS709

Just arrived!

This radio is NOT related to either the DB20-G or even the DB25-G. It is a completely different UHF/VHF mini-mobile radio that also incorporates DMR. Apparently earlier in its life, and before substantial firmware upgrades were made, it was also released as the Retevis RT-73

Worth pointing it out again!

I am on V2.36, but I do not think that is the problem. Also I switched all of your setting into my radio and I can still SCAN. Open up the Information of Scanning Channel menu and be sure SCAN MODE is turned to ON: When I switched mine to OFF, when I attempt to Scan, it does not work and I hear a Beep!

I don't have a Wouxun KG-905g, but I do play a 905g programmer on television. It looks like that is their implementation for how to handle multiple repeaters on the same frequencies with the same or different CTCSS/DPLs: I suspect that the "gaps" do not show up when you manually scroll (or scan) between these channels.

Unfortunately, to save money, the Chinese radio industry utilizes doves in their quality control department!

Works for me. What version is your firmware? If you hold down the FUN button (whether on the radio or the mic) too long, it will lock the keypad and the word LOCK will appear in the bottom right of the screen. A long press of FUN toggles this Lock on and off.

What makes you think he has a Ham license?!?

Interesting; thank you! I've never made it out that far north east; except driving Hiway-14 to Mojave and then 58 west to Techacipi and I-15 north!

What do you mean: "what do you mean"?? I install Windows and I just cancel the activation and move on with using it...

I have no personal experience with Midland; my only knowledge of their radios is the preponderance of negative posts about them here on this Forum. While having a focus for a particular segment of the "wireless radio" market may be their business strategy, that does not serve to overcome their deficiencies (again from posts here on this forum) to the preponderance of GMRS users here that are not farmers! "Some people" promote their use by Jeepsters and other off-roaders as being compatible with easily obtained at the last-minute FRS radios and that seems to not only be their asset, but the source of their deficiencies. In any event, the OP chose the Radioddity GM-30 and has hit a roadblock with his desire to use DIY toned simplex channels on that particular radio.

Sorry to hear that; was that based upon advice from this forum? OK: let's go back to the famed myGMRS MAP for Fort Walton Beach, FL and turn on both stale and offline repeaters (because sometimes these designations are wrong and have not been updated) and look for those on 600 and 725 (I did that mentally without looking up channels 17 and 22, so I hope my morning coffee kicked in!) So right on top of you is the FWB WRCI382 repeater on 600, which is Open and has a tone of 141.3. I'll let those here who promote midland tell you how to program that into your radio, since I do not have midland software And for 725, the SoWal WRCI382 Repeater (I'm seeing a pattern here...) on 725 is again Open and has a tone of 141.3. So program away and have fun!

"Upgrade" and "midland" in the same sentence...

All that computer libertarianism aside, I haven't paid for Windoze since XP; and even that was in a program called SoftWindows (or VirtualPC, who can remember that long ago...) to run Windows on a PowerPC (IBM-Motorola-Apple) Mac! When I discovered that various wireless radios programming software needed to be run in Windows, I sucked XP out of that program, and armed with my serial number, I reinstalled it, first into BootCamp, when Mac went Intel, and then into Parallels, when I wanted to be able to run Windows and MacOS concurrently (like needing to use copy and paste between environments). And that worked for me for years, hand in hand with Chirp for certain radios that were lucky enough to have been reverse engineered by those dedicated radio hounds! And then sure enough people started asking me questions about how to program certain radios that only had Windows CPS software and they only had Windows 10, or gosh-forbid, Windows 11, and did not even know what XP was! So I had to break down and install an upgraded version, but after some research I discovered Windows 10 and 11's dirty little secret: You do NOT need to activate it! Now I do not know if this is an after-result of the MicroSoft antitrust settlement, or some other "business reason," but it works perfectly fine if you do not activate it. Now Microsoft is not going to give you any technical support, but after all, all I am doing is programming radios! AND, I turned off Auto-Update, because, well if it ain't broken, why fix it?!?

El Paso? Is that east or west of Ridgecrest? I've been hearing this "Verdugo" repeater on 700 and it seems all of the freeze-dried morons from the old 725 repeater of years ago, have thawed out!

Let me see if I understand this: this Linux computer operating system: it's goal is to run as few applications natively as possible so that the true computer enthusiasts can spend their lifetimes...

With all due respect, citing Midland as an example of common, is an insult to the concept of "common!"

Its internal connections are faulty; return it for a replacement.

HaHaHa: that’s a great video! Thanks for that laugh!!

Uh Oh: how old is he? Before I gave my grandson one of my HTs, I programmed it to NOT include the local profane language repeater and put Tones into the Channels I use to talk with him.

Could your screenname possibly be WSBN531?

As I recall that is a deficiency with that model Radioddity; that is, the inability to setup additional DIY simplex channels with tones

I just turned on the radio and 650 and 700: all the yahoo's are going nuts over the California election results!

You probably have programmed your radio to beep on the conclusion of your transmission; hence no determination can be made from that beep. Brand/model of Radio? Which Repeater? Other information you think might be relevant, such as the line of sight from your location to the repeater, etc.?