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As I recall, @OffRoaderXdeclared Channel 19 as the GMRS National Calling Channel and the Feds backed down!

To you, perhaps.

No DMR radio is supported by Chirp

Some of the “UV-5R” style of radios require you to actually “delete” the channel before going into VFO Mode, reprogramimg the information and then saving this information into the same channel number.

I am very familiar with Baofeng DMR CPS programming and how OpenGD77 (only available in a “limited” number of DMR radios) improves upon that experience. I have no experience with either Hytera or Harris DMR CPS software. Since you express so much enthusiasm about these Hytera and Harris programming benefits, that you say are now being utilized by Baofeng in the DM-32, I was hoping you would share those benefits with us. You assert that the “new” Baofeng DMR CPS software is a game changer on the DM-32 and I am trying to access whether another $75 purchase for this game changer is worth it.

Just curious: what specific Hytera and Harris CPS programming features improve Baofeng DMR programming?

You’re not part of the Gang I was referring to… And, shouldn’t you be making Oklahoma hypotheticals?

Ah, click bait!

It’s so typical on this forum to see the Gang of One, Two, Three, Four dump on the guy making a scholarly presentation instead of the one who suggests 5 watts on WBFM on FRS 10!

We all want to pay $30 for $150 worth of radio! If you don’t like digital, we are not holding our breath waiting for you to use it!

What about 65 miles on my HT at 5 watts to a SSB station doesn’t work for you?!? It works for me!! OMG: I have an 80-6 meter vertical: all these years communicating with Hams with beams - my whole amateur radio career is trash!!! Geesh!! Let the OP live a little on 2 meters talking to SSB stations. He told you he can’t afford the Icom…

No sweat, right? I do have some issues with Win 11 sometimes. So I still have Win 10 and XP when needed.

While admittedly, Chirp is easiler, for the most part; what’s wrong with you using the Baofeng CPS? Are you talking about a “virtual machine” on a Mac? If so, I have been programming my non-Chirp radios in Parallels on a Mac since Windows XP back in those days!

What’s your point?!? The OP suggested SSB on 2 meters and you suggested a $1,900 Icom. I pointed out I make QSOs with 2 meter SSB stations at 5 watts HT for $20 and you are nit picking about DSB vs SSB Do you get a commission from Icom?!?

Doesn’t Bridgecom offer a codeplug that is a massive database of interesting frequencies!?

While I have great nostalgia for 6 meter AM when I was young, my experience here in SoCal is that 6 meters is dead, other than some FM repeaters that duplicate others on 440/220/145

Do 10 meter SSB and FT8 before it goes dead with the collapsing of the 11 year solar cycle.

I specifically purchased the Quansheng UV-K5(8) and flashed the IJV3 firmware so that I now have a 5 watt HT that can communicate with 2 meter SSB for $20. I made a 65 mile QSO with my 5/8ths telescoping antenna.

Two advantages of DMR you overlook: 1) point-to-point QSOs 24/7/365 2) the 11 year solar cycle is now heading downward, leaving DMR as a consistent means for international QSOs

Just wanted you to know the hypocrisy of whom you quoted

Yet, Ayn Rand utilized Medicare towards the end of her life...

Yes, but scanning (receiving) does not require a NB preset. Transmitting on MURS 1-3 does.

Don’t forget: MURS 1-3 are narrowband FM.

What’s your definition of “very limited?” 10%?

I seriously doubt that either Baofeng's or Radioddity website make claims that their radios are "open" for transmission on unlicensed frequencies... That having been said, there is still a serious question about whether or not the DM-32 will allow change to another TalkGroup simply by entering the TG number on the keyboard; a major failing of the "inexpensive" DMR radios before OpenGD77.