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Before we send them off to spend more money perhaps, as @OffRoaderX said, perhaps just trying to see if one or both radios has an issue first, K I S S, is the route to start at. be aware if your testing too close, there is a possibility of an over-saturation that makes you think one or both are bad. Get at least a good 50 foot away with a clear line of sight and go from there.

On the VU-5R Radios you could adjust the squelch setting breaks. It did not have a potentiometer squelch, you set a level of squelch from 0 to 9 in the menu. With that by default, the settings where the break level was in a new radio was kinda bizarre, so any level you had from 1 to 9 was not much different. For instance: You could adjust the levels for each setting from 0 to 120, but in the top pic, I adjusted mine to a max of 60, as above that you were pretty much fully "deaf".

The 5RM "driver" in CHIRP is still experimental. I am sure if the squelch levels can be changed in the 5RM, like they could in the UV-5R family, at some point they might be adjustable but it may not be possible with the firmware or how the radio is made. Its why its important to keep CHIRP updated. And why its important to keep the older versions around too. Sometimes the update takes something that worked before and messes with it.

That was actually quite clever.

If it was a truly emergency situation, I would try 5w, and if that was not getting out, I would not hesitate to step it up to 50w FCC limitations be damned. And more if needed/possible. EDIT And channels 15-22 while allowed 50w, are the repeater freqs, and I think are not generally used as simplex channels.

FM for TX/RX, but depending on the way the SOC and other components are set up, no reason it cant receive AM. My AR-5RM does Airband RX.

I did not know that... OH SHI.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! *splash*

https://a.co/d/05f2SY1S Works for radios up to 100 watts. Its not a precision meter, but for GMRS its more than adequate.

Maybe not, but its still a better and additional hurdle for them to have to get through, than to just make up a "law" on their own and toss it out to us pheasants.

If they are type certified they will have all that baked in automatically.

Have you tried the different dtcs polarity options? Shooting blind, cause everything looks good.

Guy on the right, for about the first minute, looks like either a deer in headlights, or there's illegal pharmaceuticals in his system. I have done tons of trade shows all over for a former employer... I still cant always tell, so...

Even Geezus at some point is going to say phuck it, IMHO Were doomed.

Good try, but the pic ones have the screen in the center, while the m37 is at the top. With that though, the general layout, how the speaker grill looks, and general shape/aesthetics seem to match, you might be on to it as an ICOM or a generic ICOM knockoff trying to look like one. EDIT Noticed the top radio in the three he posted is definitely a different radio than the other two

Ahh, the stuff you dont want the missus to know you bought 8-P

Thats what I went with for my 25 watter. It does wobble a bit on bumpy roads, but not terribly so to make it an issue.

So pretty similar then.

Looks like its not CHIRP compatible yet that i know of.

Figured out where and how your going to mount it yet?

Thanks! I have no need or want to TX on those bands, just decent reception so that was never an issue. Im a dumbass because exactly what you mentioned, looking at suppliers of aviation handhelds, EVER came to me. OY!

My Boofwang AR-5RM has the capacity to monitor the air bands (118.0 to 136.975) so I programmed the local airports just to listen to sometimes. Now, being those are AM is there an antenna that will better my RX from the 701/G that is on it now? Scanning through I can pick a lot up ok, but it tends to be really "crunchy" for lack of a better term often. Just curious if a different antenna might improve that, or if its probably not going to matter.

Great topic! Grew up around CB, back in the day you had to have a license for it. Remember my dad had a Dymo label, the kind that imbossed the plastic, with his callsign stuck to his base unit and the mobile one in the Pinto. Neighbor behind us had an aerial so tall the guy lines were in all 4 corners of his backyard, heh. When we moved out of the burbs and off to the hillbilly nation when dad decided to start a trucking business for coal, everyone had a CB cause you needed it. Nice to know that switchback your getting close to on a hill has a fully loaded truck coming down it is at the switchback, so you could stop far enough away so they could swing the corner. Lost interest in radio after I moved away, but around 2014 or so, I needed one for work, or more like, one would help but there was not enough to go around to everyone. Bought a UV5R from the Amazon in 2014 - cost me close to 40 dollars then: Learned how to get it programmed for work and used it, but not much more. Years later started looking into going HAM, but for me the work was not worth it, as that was more than I needed. Can't remember when GMRS crossed my mind, but figured it was not as geeky as HAM, but I could expand a bit radio wise with it. Now here I am, becoming more geeky about radio.

If you listen to it on simplex, do you hear any traffic at all through the day?

Hence why I said "usually". I debated on how I worded my original post on that wording actually, but not everyone does things by definition, so it was like OK, i get beat up by those that do it different, or i get beat up by those that say its the only way. I was screwed either way.