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You wouldn't happen to be in SoCal, would you? Oh wait, sorry, let me write it in a way you'd understand: You Wouldn't Happen To Be In SoCal, Would You?

Try Chirp. I always had weird issues with some of the radio settings not being transferred properly from the Radioddity software. Like, it works, but sometimes I'd have to push the settings to the radio a couple times for them to stick. I haven't seen that same behavior w/ Chirp.

Bingo. Does everything I need it to, does it pretty well, and cost $80. It was just a...Radio...oddity? I'd noticed. Would be nice to know what causes it to hang open tho.

Hand a 2nd radio to a friend or family member when you're out and about doing a thing where you need an easy communication solution...then push the button when you want to talk. It's literally that simple

I asked about this after we got back from Yellowstone last year because I had the ranger / park service repeaters programmed in (to listen to, obv. We got a bunch of great intel about animal sightings, geyser eruptions and traffic hot-spots while we were in the park listening in on there. And some guy who ended up getting tackled by the Rangers, I forget why now) and, for some reason, with ONLY those stations (and not all the time), mine would do this. Still no idea wtf that was about.

There's no "may put some truth to it". It doesn't show on your license anymore, so it doesn't apply.

There are still hams mad that CW isn't required anymore to get your license, so.....

This is the most ham radio this GMRS forum has ever looked

To answer the original question: I don't see a reason that wouldn't work. There's a couple of BTech radios that do this from the factory. They have RJ-45 connectors at the radio, and come with a splitter that has RJ-45 on 1 end, and a K1 connector on the other. In my case, I have one in my race car, with the K1 connector going to the wiring harness for my helmet mounted mic & ear buds, and steering wheel mounted PTT.

It's basically* ethernet in the same way that the 120v wiring in your house is basically ethernet. Ethernet is a network technology. There's no 'networking' going on between the mic and your radio. No addressing being shared. It's just using a common connector to pass the same type of signal (your audio, your PTT trigger, button pushes) that would come through any other kind of mic connector to the radio. It's an RJ-45 connector. It's nothing at all like an ethernet connection other than it shares a common connector type.

Might be a dodgy connection from the mic cable? those RJ-45 connectors aren't the strongest things in the world. If you jiggle the connector at the radio does it happen? I've noticed it do weird things if I disconnect or connect the mic or programming cable while the radio's on.

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What you have should work. TSQL means you're listening for and transmitting the same tone. Tone means you're transmitting a tone (to get into a repeater, for example) but the radio will break squelch on *any* signal strong enough on that frequency, whether or not it has a tone. For repeaters, you only need to send a tone, to open squelch on the receive side of the repeater, you don't need it for listening (unless you're in a really busy environment and you want to *only* hear traffic from that repeater on that channel). My area is fairly busy, so if I'm listening to the repeater on 20, there's often a bunch of other noise on simplex 20, which my radio will hear, so I like having the receive side tamped down as well.

Tell me about it. That place is a dump. I couldn't in good conscience actually charge anyone else to occupy that space...

Get out of my head!

With your frequency numbers on the channels being wrong / all over the place, I'm leaning towards starting over being easier, honestly. The nice thing with Chirp is that you can do that pretty easily. 1. Read from your radio so you've got your current config (or open your current config). 2. go to File > Open Stock Config > US FRS and GMRS. 3. Do another Read from Radio from your radio so you can get a 2nd page open with your radios config, and blow the memory channels away on this one so you've got a blank slate. What you're doing makes sense (having a few personalized channels for yourself + the standard GMRS channels) but not when your labeling (FRS1) doesn't actually match up with what frequency FRS1 should be (you have 467.5500, but it should actually be 462.5625...). Otherwise your radios aren't going to work with other people's. I have no idea where you got that frequency list from, but it needs to go in the trash haha Compare yours with the file in #2 above and you'll see what I mean. Also know that unless the person you're trying to talk to isn't transmitting the tone your radio is listening for, you will not hear them. So if someone is on a standard, no tones channel, let's say, GMRS1, and your GMRS1 (or FRS1, they're the same, more or less), assuming you've corrected the frequencies, but you have a tone, you won't hear them. So it's a good idea to have a set of "Open" channels on your radio as well. This is what my normal loadout looks like. The first set are what we use at the track when we're trying to just hear ourselves and not anyone else who might be on an open GMRS channel, the my local repeaters, then a full set of 'open' GMRS channels.

Regulations wise? So long as they're not doing anything else wrong, no problem. As far as the owners of the network are concerned? You'd have to read into it / talk to them about it. I've seen all sorts of weird rules for 'mah repeatah!!!!' Nope. Generally, the 'rebroadcasting to the network' part doesn't happen on your radio's end, but on the linked repeater end.

Yep, same

I don't know if it's right or wrong, but I have.....questions. Why are there DTC tones on every "FRS" channel? (If you aren't aware, FRS and GMRS share the same channels for Simplex). If you're trying to keep to the GRMS rules, your transmit power is wrong on 8-14. Why are GMRS 17 and 19 labeled as FAM1 & 2? The order seems to be kinda all over the place but if that's what you were going for, and the radios you're trying to talk to are set up similarly, it CAN work. It just seems a bit of a hodgepodge mess, and without knowing the logic behind it (IE: did you copy someone else's cockamamie config blindly? Or is it set up that way on purpose?) it's kinda hard to know what you were going for.

Will it lower your output power? In my experience, it often does. Will it lower it enough to matter? In my experience, no.

That would be a tragic waste

Hey just like GMRS!

That hope and $5 can get you a cup of coffee...

Channel != frequency. First day on the internet?