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No wonder, someone on the GMRS SubReddit advises us to "Ignore" you!

My consulting fee doubles when you do NOT try out my advice before questioning its efficacy! BTW: In the future, I just HATE this Technical Discussion thread that lists responses by Votes and YES, I know I can select by Date; but I am not here to win a popularity contest (and I frequently DON'T). So for MY advice in the future, especially for the DB20-G, please avoid these Vote threads...

Yes, I already had a 120v to 12v power supply in the house, that I use to power my DB20-G on a permanent basis. But since you asked about Jackery and since I DO use my Jackery Explorer 300 to power my DB20-G when portable, I wanted to give you the benefit of that knowledge.

Did you try it? Are you in GMRS mode, or have you "opened" your DB20-G? I may have to return mine to GMRS mode to duplicate your efforts if that is your mode.

Last year's Black Friday, I could not resist purchasing a Jackery Explorer 300 from Amazon. It powers my DB20-G just fine!

Push the FUN button to enter the Menu Mode Use the V/M (Up) and MAN (Down) buttons to go to Menu Item #29: DSPCHANNEL Use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow buttons to change your setting from "CH" to either "NAME" or "FREQ" as you desire Push the FUN bottom to exit the Menu Mode

Which make/model is that 2 meter radio?

I am a BIG FAN of the Jerry Ziliak High Speed Morse Code System. These were originally on cassette tape, but after Jerry Ziliak passed away, his estate must have licensed the transfer to CD and now Amazon sells them. His theory is simple: He teaches you each letter, number and character one at a time at 20 WPM sending of the dots and dashes. But as he expands to words, he sends each character at 20 WPM, but by putting in more space between letters, he starts out at 5 WPM. Then as you get comfortable, he starts to "increase" the speed by deleting some of the spacing. In this way, your brain hears 20 WPM right from the start, instead of other teaching methods that make you relearn each letter, etc., as your speed increases. I can send you a sample if you like; send me a PM.

I would love to hear your method of flashing UV-13Pro firmware over to the GM-30 a/k/a UV-15Pro a/k/a Pofung UV-15UV The link to Chirp by the previous "ghost" poster does list many people wanting to help out, but so far none of them has cracked the problem why Chirp does not support these radios. The Radioddity GM-30 cps programming software (windows only) does work.

[I moved my post over to the new thread on Amateur Radio]

I will let @WRUU653 answer your questions, instead of just complain about my complaining about the format and meta-structure of this type of thread. And, hopefully he will be specific about his answers on your use of the GM-30 and DB20-G on split repeaters! Good luck and see you on your next question!

I never thought about stretching this Transverter from 450 to 467 to see if an Icom IC-7300 can operate on the GMRS channels. Nice challenge!

Repost on another thread that is not "Sort by Votes" and I will be happy to respond... If it is a ham radio repeater, post on that topic please.

"Sort by VOTES" - Good luck!

Good to see that these cost effective little units are still selling and getting a larger fan base!

I am having trouble following your grammatical use of negatives here, perhaps... Then it is not a TOT timer shut off. I just set my DB20-G timer for 1 minute and held my microphone transmit button on: At 52 seconds, it began emitting a tone for about 5 seconds. At 60 seconds, it shut down the transmission. As I continued to hold the microphone button down, it did not regain transmission. Once I released my microphone button, I was able to then immediately push it down again and regain the ability to transmit.

No, it would not.

Name 3!

How much must I pay to be convinced to post LESS?!?

I suspect the author of that quote IS dead!

I have been running both Windows XP and 10 for years on my Intel Macs either in Bootcamp, which requires a reboot each time I switch from Windows to Mac and back, or in Parallels, which can run both simultaneously. I now also run Windows 11 in Parallels on my 2024 M4 Mac Mini. I have successfully used this method to program ALL of my radios that are not covered by Chirp and hence require a Windows CPS software.

I would like to help but I am unclear at what you are saying here. Also, my other problem with helping you is this damn'd format of sorting by votes for this type of post! Yes, I know I can change it to sort by date, but I still find it bothersome. I will make an exception for you though... Are you able to receive and hear your local Weather Band station?

I will bet dollars to donuts that the reference to "chirp" was a typo or auto-correct mistake. Don't hold your breath for Chirp support on the DB20-G; is just not gonna happen.

Historically, narrow-band GMRS repeaters are used as private repeaters, or with semi-private portable repeaters used off-road for compatibility with easy to purchase FRS HTs. When repeaters are stationary and open, they are normally set to wide-band. Even Midland recognized that the times, they are a'changing!

There is the Cup Holder Mount: Somewhere on this forum is a cheaper version using a plumbers plug!