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Some historical perspective for the young folk: The "model" for the major American car manufactures was: Small car, small features; Large car, large features. Japan brought to American - Small car, BIG features and never looked back, especially after the oil embargo crises of the 70s had even luxury car drivers looking for better gas mileage.

So if a tree falls in a forest when no one is around...

Nice to see that Kenwood TH-79A there, too! I have a box full of 2 TH-22s, a 79a that works and one that doesn't, the base charger, a collection of rechargeable battery packs of various sizes, voltages and amps, and the original headset with VOX Brings back memories of the 90s!

Radioddity GM-30? What do you mean by beta?

2 meter VHF? i like BBQ at Charlie Brown’s Farms in Little Rock!

Sounds like you have "altitude" issues! 200 miles to Nevada?

I don't understand: there are two technologies? One can watch YouTube without commercials on a non-Roku TV, but you must watch adult toy ads on YouTube on Roku TV?

Doesn't that destroy YouTube's business model?

What do you use specifically to turn off ads?

You are not required to have a YouTube account to watch them

I am not sure that Part 95E allows for a "combo" GMRS/label maker radio...

TID-Radio offers a K-1 plug in dongle and Bluetooth App that works with a limited number of HTs. https://tidradio.com/products/high-performance-handheld-radio-wireless-cable-programmer

How about if Garrett Morris, in the video below, was using a MURS HT? MURS Repeater?!?

This Cotre C001D also has voice announcements for its 16 channels; I am not sure yet about Zones. The On/Off toggle button is on the right side bottom, below the K-1 jack (which has a common cover over it). When you hold down the On/Off button for at least 2 seconds, the upper LED will blink green and a female voice will tell you which channel it is currently tuned to. Channels are changed by pushing the Menu button on the left side below the push-to-talk button and she says "Channel" and pushing the + or - button below Menu will rotate the channels accordingly and she will tell you the number of the newly selected channel either up or down. You can continue using the + or - button to get to the channel number you desire as she continues to tell you the next channel. You hold down the On/Off button again for about 2 seconds and a quick tone signifies it has turned off the HT. Can you print out your cheat sheet in Braille? I am going to order a sma to double crocodile clip cable so I can remove the HT's antenna and try to connect it to an external antenna.

There is probably somewhere to change the default language to English. If you link me to this firmware software, I will give it a look in Windows.

Good point; as I have no experience with the 778; so indeed, it appears to be a ham radio that can open to GMRS (usually called MARS/CAPS mod). But the radio I do have much experience with, the AT-779UV a/k/a Radioddity DB20-G, is indeed a Part 95E certified GMRS radio that can be easily opened to 2 meters and 70 cm Ham and even MURS; although I am sure that many here will argue that when in the "open" condition, it is no longer certified to be able to use GMRS concurrently. Since it uses code plugs, it does have the ability to be "open" for ham radio and then returned back to "closed" for certified use on GMRS.

Thank you for all that information. No, I meant a link to how to open it for use on Ham bands, and I guess you answered that as well; by using the software to select Band 2? I will let those who ask me, know about how to open these radios now.

Those early RD-5R are merely a footnote to DMR history now. They have been successfully flushed out of the distribution chain now so that purchasing either the Radioddity RD-5R or the newer Baofeng DM-5R or even their 1701 and newer 1702 are reliable Tier-2 units now. More importantly, back to our $13 DMR HT: I programmed it for 5 DMR channels through a local DMR repeater and 3 analog repeaters and sent it out for testing on a local HAM Analog/DMR repeater and here is the results: It worked perfectly on the first 4 DMR channels through the repeater with Talkgroups: PAPA, WorldWide, Cal and SoCAL. The fifth Talkgroup, TAC310, failed. It also worked fine on the 1st Analog repeater chosen, but it did not have geographical range to the two other repeaters. Good reports were given on signal and audio quality in return on all attempts. It turns out I programmed the wrong Color Code on the Channel for TAC310. We did not try DMR simplex. Does it have disadvantages: yes, of course: only 2 watts high power, a non-standard antenna jack and no display, so the operator must keep a cheat-sheet of which channels are what. I am going to search for a source for the better, but more expensive C006D model, especially since it seems that Amazon has raised the price of the C001D since I purchased it for less than $14! I am also going to work on an adapter for using an external antenna to the non-standard antenna jack. But for quick and inexpensive ability to access DMR, it is hard to beat for the price. Although I have no experience with Hotspots, it seems that its use with a Hotspot would eliminate both 2 watts and non-standard antenna jack as being a problem.

Yes, the notes from the PNW group indicate that this is a groundless connector, too! For inexpensive DMR, it is still hard to beat the Radioddity RD-5R a/k/a Baofeng DM-5R: uses all the same accessories, including batteries, of the UV-5R, 5 watts, analog too including GMRS, MURS, 2 meters and 70 cms; full Tier-2, standard SMA jack, and now works with the "OpenGD77" firmware project.

Oh, really? That's good news for the 778 owners. Can you publish a link? Still a very different radio though

Only a sibling in manufacturing name and nearby model number only.Completely different look and feel and many tell me they cannot open the 778 to Ham 2 meter/70 cm bands.

a/k/a Anytone AT-779UV

If I recall correctly, the Chirp set for the UV-5X should work with that radio. Also check for Radioddity model numbers instead of Baofeng in Chirp.

Most firmware updaters are Windows software. You can usually see it ending in the "exe" file type. Chirp usually does not update firmware.

When Baofeng originally released its DMR RD-5R, it was Tier-1 to every DMR repeater administrator's chagrin! Radioddity finally fixed it with the electronics from their GD-77 squeezed into the UV-5R form and released a Tier-2 RD-5R.