WSAA635

You might have had the BF-F8HP and not the Pro model which has GPS and a larger screen.

BaofengTech/BTech has really out done themselves with the BF-F8HP Pro IMHO. This radio has everything I've been looking for in an HT, it's easy to program with the BTech software and even lets you add a Custom Start-Up pic. I did a vid of a quick walk around showing some of the features and showing the really awesome programming software too. Anyway, enjoy the vid and thanks for watching. TN.Frank Out!

Work picked up some little Retevis rt68 radios to use and I wanted to use my personal UV-5r so I went on their website to see which frequencies they used and what the CTCSS codes were. Once I programed them into the UV-5r they worked like a charm. So, YES they are programming CTCSS codes from the factory into their radios. You either need to get into them with CHIRP or similar program and remove the codes or program the other radios with the codes and things will work.

The crime rate in Avondale, AZ. depends on where you're at. Avondale Proper is miles from where I'm at and is a depressed area. The area where I'm at is Middle/Upper Middle Class and crime is very low here.

So what do you think "the issues" are? Anyone who thinks it's ok to shelter criminals is totally on the wrong side of things. It doesn't matter where they're from, they either go to prison or back to their home country. Protecting them in "sanctuary cities" is unacceptable.

Only stupid people protest over illegal alien criminals being deported.

I always have to laugh when folks come into work(Sportsman's Warehouse) looking at our Bubble Pack Radios. "But it says on the package 36 miles?" I try to tell them that they're just cheap FRS radios that are .5 to 2 watts and they'd be lucky to get a mile with them in the city and maybe 3 or 4 miles in prefect condition out in the wide open country. I always try to point them to a "REAL" radio and tell them they can get a much better UV-5R for $20 bucks on Amazon. I get a few folks thanking me for them not wasting their money on the bubble pack stuff.

My bet would be if they WERE using radios they'd be the cheap bubble pack FRS radios you'd get from WalMart. I don't think they'd be intelligent enough to get real GMRS radios and use them. If they were they'd not be protesting in the first place.

When you're ready to move up take a serious look at the AR-5RM or if you want/need GPS the BTech/Baofeng BF-F8HP Pro is an awesome radio. Welcome to the Crazy World of GMRS.

Yes, I know. In CHIRP you'd enter 462.725 and it'll automatically offset to TX to 467, my radios don't work with CHIRP, might be a WINE/Linux deal or something. In the Stock Software you enter 467 as the TX and 462 as the RX.

Double and Triple checked my settings for the local Repeaters and I still can't get anyone. I wasn't having any trouble at all getting Shaw Butte but now, NOTHING. It's just crazy. Can anyone else in the Phoenix, AZ. area hit the Show Butte repeater and get a reply, 462.725/ TX CTCSS 100.0, none needed for RX.

I've generally always spelt things like they sound and some words just sound so strange that it's hard to figure out how to spell them. LOL

Yep, I can't spell or it might have been auto correct.

462.3900MHz.

I have it mounted out in the open on my fold down cup holder so it gets plenty of air flow around it. Even with it off in my enclosed truck in the blistering AZ. summer it'll be hot, everything in the truck is hot so I've never felt the need to check the temp.