Thanks for the responses,
I tried the antenna around and round game with all my HT's. All the Baofeng 9 series performed the same (GM-9r, UV-9G, and UV9R) wont break squelch any where in my place or outside it. I live in a small mountain town in Colorado. My Baofeng UV-5r and the GM-5RH do pick up my NOAA and a sky net ham repeater i listen to with decent reception. It blows my mind cause my 5's pick up that uhf ham repeater clear, where the 9's will not break squelch on any setting. I returned the GM-9R for another GM 5RH which is a super radio with lots of newer features, just cant go swimming with it. I have tried other cheap GMRS HT devices like the Talkpod A36 which had decent reception, after i cleared the factory security codes and entered the correct repeater settings, but the dang battery kept popping out and the unit would hit the ground because the stupid belt clip is attached to battery. After a rubber band remedy for the battery problem, it turned out that the Talkpod would not broadcast on the repeater channels, back to Amazon.