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From the Chirp documentation: Tone->Tone: This means use the Tone value for transmit tone, and the ToneSql value for receive squelch

What you've posted is correct for a repeater with a Tx CTCSS tone and a different Rx CTCSS tone. Is that true? Regardless of whether that's true or not, you might want to troubleshoot using just a Tx tone so that you aren't missing responses that might be sent without a tone or with a different tone. To do that you'd use Tone for the tone mode and enter the tone in the Tone column. If that doesn't work you might not be in range or maybe you've got the wrong tone.

No, he's talking about the frequency offset. To talk to a repeater you have to transmit on a frequency 5.0 MHz higher than the receive frequency. So on the GM15 Pro I believe that would be menus 26 (Frequency offset direction, set to plus) & 27 (Frequency offset, set to 5.0).

Exactly. This has been mentioned several times before. It'd be nice if it showed it but it doesn't. As BoxCar mentioned above, the Tx frequency shows when you press PTT though.

That +- that shows up on the top of the display is showing up only when an offset is set. I agree it'd be nice if you could see your settings. One other longer way to see is that you can download your .img back into Chirp and it'll show the settings.

How are you determining that they aren't there? In my experience with the TD-H8, which is similar in many ways to the H3, you can't go into the menus for offset direction and offset and see that they are set. They aren't editable in channel mode so they just show none for direction and o.oooo for offset. I know mine is set correctly because I can hit the repeater and I can read the program into Odmaster and see that it's what I programmed. Also, when you hold the PTT button, the frequency displayed for the channel changes to the transmit frequency. I don't like it, but that seems to be the way it is.

That's how it works. Both areas can receive at the same time unless you turn off Dual Display, using the TDR key. Then, with TDR off, you can still switch between active areas with the Area key.

I've never configured a repeater that used DPL, but what you've got looks right to me. If you want to remove the receive tone, to see if it makes a difference, set the Tone Mode to Cross. That will cause Chirp to open a pop-up window where you'll select "DTCS->". Clicking OK will open another pop-up to select the tone, which is 115 for you. The end result will be like what you've got, except "Tone Mode" = "Cross", and "Cross Mode" = "DTCS->". Maybe keep what you've got and add a second channel with the new settings. Good luck.

I had the exact same error in Chirp when I was programming my 2nd Gen TD-H8. The radio will allow any GMRS frequency in channels 31-54 but Chirp only allows the repeater frequencies. I ended up letting Chirp do what it wanted, and then correcting a few channels using Odmaster. I did it this way because I have other radios that I program with Chirp and I want them all to have the same non-GMRS monitoring channels. I reported this as a bug to Chirp, but there's some question as to whether it's a difference between 1st gen and 2nd gen H8's, and might call for a new driver instead of a bug fix.

So what channel? Is it one you've transmitted on before? The TD-H8 (the GMRS version) won't allow transmissions on channels above channel 52. Maybe the software is confused.

That sounds like how my TD-H8 works. The only customizable GMRS channels are 31-52. Memories above that are receive-only. Again, this is on the TD-H8. I don't know about the H3. Channels 1-30 are the standard GMRS channels, with unchangeable frequencies. The manual says nothing about this but it's on their website. Hopefully we can get another H3 owner to verify how theirs works.

Some of this information should have been provided by the repeater owner when your access request was approved. The rest is in Chirp documentation. Chirp is mostly pretty straightforward, but can get more complicated than I am qualified to explain. You should refer to Chirp documentation for that. https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns What I can tell you is that when I was given repeater access recently, the owner said something like "Welcome, the PL is 131.8" (this is just made up.) So, the PL is called T-CTCSS in my radios, and Tone in Chirp. The only extra data I had to put into Chirp for this repeater was: Tone Mode = Tone, Tone = 131.8, Duplex = +, Offset = 5.000000 One extra thing though. I've never needed this, so not tested, but the Chirp documentation says that if there is also a receive tone and it's the same tone, then the Tone Mode column changes to TSQL instead of Tone.

As has been mentioned, the video is for a different model. First, make sure you have an empty memory channel to save to. If you need to delete one to make room, use Menu 28 to do so. Go into frequency mode by pressing the VFO button. Enter the receive frequency of the repeater. It should already be set to high tx power and wide bandwidth, but if not use menus 2 and 5 to change them. The receive CTCSS, if needed, is set in menu 11. The transmit CTCSS, if needed, is set in menu 13. Set the SFT-D, "frequency direction", to plus with menu 25. Set OFFSET, "Offset frequency", to 005.000 with menu 26. Save this to the channel selected in step one using menu 27. That should do it.