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Exactly: I paid $22 six years ago for a good quality FTDI USB to K-1 cable on Amazon to program originally my UV-5R and it has paid dividends in working with all my K-1 radios since then!

I don't have any experience programming the ICOM IC-2720. I do see that RT Software has a cable/software package for that radio and they receive very high marks on the ease of use of their software. Also, I see that CHIRP supports your Icom, as well. Good luck! You do not hear any traffic on the 650 repeater on your correctly programmed UV5R?

Oooops it's CRM-114! Also noted on the guitar amplifier used by Marty McFly in Back to the Future, as an homage to Dr. Strangelove!

It is clearly delineated in "Wing Attack - Plan R" in the manual being read by Col. Kong in your profile photo!

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How much you want for your bricked H3? Did you try to connect it to your CRM113 Discriminator and activate it with the code: OPE?

Yes, the link to the Repeater page, shows the tone. Do you know how to program your radio to use that tone? What radio?

San Fernando Valley: 462.700 repeaters are not very helpful. Try the 462.650 repeater up on Sylmar; you should hit it fine from Reseda and it gets good range and generally have good folk. Sylmar 650; open and permission not needed. Once and a while the scum that used to populate 725 migrate over to 650 and its best to turn off your radio at that point.

Your two closest repeaters are both permission required, so use the Repeater section here to ask permission and then try to find their websites and ask permission there, too. Simplex you are ready to go: tune to the channel and push to talk!

I purchased this one: MMDVM JumboSpot It just arrived today; I purchased on the 18th

Yes, I believe you are correct; those problems are locked into firmware as part of their FCC certification for Part 95E. One solution, I believe, is the Baofeng UV-13Pro. It is the Ham Radio version of the GM-15 and is open to GMRS frequencies. As such I believe all channels are programmable. If that is something that you are interested in, I have one here (I purchased it from AliExpress for about $20 including free shipping) and I could run the software and see if I can populate GMRS Repeaters on the other channels, as well. I do not recall if Chirp supports this radio, but it would not surprise me if it doesn't.

That's the problem with "Guests" - they have no skin in the game.

That's my next project: I ordered a Hotspot from China for $100, so I will be following this thread as well!

No. It is a clone of the Radioddity GM-30 and not the UV-5R.

When the OP comes back (if), then I’ll stop holding my breath

Please restate your original question with more detail about the two stations. Pretend I am 5 years old

WoW: I just got the Quansheng UV-K5(8) delivered from AliExpress today... I CAN"T KEEP UP!!!

So this setup will cause you to not hear transmissions from that repeater, unless they also have a code of 67.0 set on their transmissions? Why use a channel shared with a local repeater? There will be interference when both are transmitting, subject to the "capture effect."

When you are drowning in the ocean before we can send a rescue ship, here is a lifesaver to help you in the meantime. This is based upon an UV-5R Chirp file for another drowning soul: Step 1: Open your UV-5R file in Chirp Step 2: In Chirp, go from File to Export to CSV and save the file with an appropriate name. Step 3: Open the CSV file in a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel Step 4: Using Cut and Insert Cut Cells move the following Rows so that they align with your Baofeng UV-5G+ software: Location, Frequency, rToneFreq, Offset, cToneFreq, Step 5: GMRS Repeaters are always +5 MHz Offset, so for bonus points, you can create a new Row named Tx Frequency and in the topmost cell for Row E (Tx Frequency), insert the formula: = B3 + D3 RETURN and the populate the formula by copying cell E3 to the remainder of Row D. Then you can cut and Insert Cut Cells to move the Offset Row to a later point in the spreadsheet and now have a Tx Frequency Row instead. Otherwise, when the time comes, you can just manually adjust the frequency Up 5 MHz, such as 462.550 to 467.550. Step 6: Go to Row B in Excel in the first GMRS Repeater you can to move over and copy its contents - Rx Frequency. Then paste it in the appropriate cell in Baofeng Step 7: Repeat Step 6 for Rx CTS/DCS, Tx Frequency and Tx CTS/DCS Not the greatest solution, but a solution nevertheless. GOOD LUCK! Ignore Row 2 in the Spreadsheet and Rows 31 and 32 in the Baofeng software.

OK: I got it, thank you; I will install it and take a look.

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Can you link me to the 5G+ software, so I can download it and play with it a bit? Thanks!

Is it the Blossom Valley 725? Sure looks like they want you to use it without a tone. Yeah: keep that UV-5R for when you get your Technician license and get an UV-5G for GMRS. Apparently there is a new UV-5GPLUS that is now available too; I was not aware of it until I recently walked into a wall thinking it was the original 5G(X). Like Mr. Natural says: Get the right tool for the job!

Please elaborate; I am not sure what the points you are trying to make in the context of the Radioddity GM-30 software: 1) Not fully compatible with what? 2) Where does it not let you add new channels?

What transmitting tone do you have to use on Channel 5 to access that "simplex" repeater?