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I'm pretty sure Kenwood would say "That's weird, we don't make GMRS radios."

Basically this. I don't know how easy it is to enable or disable Tx on those, but on the DB-20G it's a menu option on the face of the radio. So I have 8-14 Tx disabled but with the option to switch them on if, for some reason, that ends up being necessary.

Derp. Forgot the RO software is windows only.

Will it work with the Radioddity software?

Did you set the software Model Information (to the left of Edit there at the top) to match the mode the radio is set in?

There's a few different frequency range options it has available. The most wide open one will allow transmit on GMRS, yes. It's been a while since I've looked at the options but I believe the GMRS and the 'full' unlock are the only ones that allow it. EDIT: Modes: GMRS Europe (EU Amateur bands, I'd imagine, but I haven't investigated it at all) 136-174, 400-470 <==widest open 144-148, 420-450

I'm so glad this is in the Technical Discussion area. Because now not only will this inevitably devolve into nonsense, but it'll also be really inconvenient to try and follow Man's getting into Meemaw's Christmas Nog EARLY!

Thankfully these are pretty inexpensive

I had the BTech GMRS version of this radio and...yeah. That matches up with my experiences pretty well. Tho mine stopped receiving anything. I really wanted to like the 'everything in the handset' concept. And, as a concept, I do. But this implementation is trash, unfortunately, for so many reasons.

Many FRS (and heck even some GMRS) radios have pre-set tones on every channel (cough cough Retevis...). They likely don't know they're there or care, because all their radios talk to each other and they can't hear other people stepping on them.

Woah, they're using 50 watt radios? Impressive! ...or are they on 2 watt FRS radios and just happen to be close to you

Yeah, you broke rule #1: don't be an asshole. What purpose would that serve? So you like it now? One minute you're trying to scare them off their radios, the next it's fun to listen to them?

I normally wouldn't say anything, but since this is a 'recommend a radio' thread: This looks to be the same hardware as the BTech GMRS-20V2. I had one for about a week... one of the worst experiences I've had with a radio. I hope yours is better than mine, but even if it didn't stop receiving entirely within a week (which mine did), the interface on the mic is not great. Having to open squelch to change the volume, at least on the BTech, was really annoying. And even at near full volume the speaker was no good. Maybe mine was a one off and others love theirs, but I can't recommend this one at all.

If meth's illegal, how's my local drug dealer still in business?

I didn't even address that, but man...what? Legitimately one of the dumber things I've read on here, and that's saying something.