offroadkid

We are traveling from Northern California, through Oregon, Washington into Idaho for Thanksgiving. I love to drive, and I especially love driving in bad weather! I connected my radio to CHIRP Software and chose RadioReference from the pulldown menu and it shows my local emergency list that I was able to download to the radio, but how do I figure out how to get it to show me the listings for other states so I can just download those to the radio also? It will only show El Dorado County, (my location). Thank you!

I can't believe I missed that! That was what I searched for before posting this, thank you!

It is soft like rubber or foam.

This spacer (maybe?) came in the bag with my antenna but there isn't any instructions that came with it. It would seem that it goes between the radio and the antenna? You can see it in the 3rd photo on the website too. https://www.baofengradio.com/products/ra-md2

I just transmitted to see if anyone can hear me and I got 4 replies with "crystal clear!" We are on top of a hill at 1531' elevation and I have a Baofeng UV-5G Plus with a longer antenna.

Oh, so that's probably the 229.1 then? Okay, here is what I have now. I think (with your help) I got it correct?!

I was able to set it to HIGH! I was able to switch Tone MODE to TSQL, but when I go the "Tone Squelch" it only gives me a pull down menu of numbers, I cannot choose or input CTCSS?

Okay, great! Is there a way to add CTCSS 229.1 using CHIRP?

Good afternoon from WSCJ959 in Shingle Springs! Every Tuesday night my local group has a Safety Net with roll call and people can ask questions about their radios. I'm new to GMRS and can tune-in on Tuesday nights but the last two nights I tried to check-in, I don't think people are hearing me. Oak Hill GMRS Repeater (Channel 22R - 462.725 / 467.725 - CTCSS 229.1) I am using channel 22 but today I was thinking maybe I need to be on channel 30 on my radio which is marked as a repeater channel and has an +5 offset, (I think that is correct)? I really need help with tones and other settings. The group email says CTCSS 229.1 Can someone confirm that I should be using channel 30 instead? I'm including a screenshot of my CHIRP software with some of the download channels of my radio.

Yeah I think that is a losing battle!! He is not excited about new fun technology like me!!

I will see what I can find. I do remember now when I asked him his channel he said 2 but he said there was also a number 4 or point 4?

I set the squelch to what Randy @OffRoaderX suggested on his YouTube channel. I didn’t think about the squelch possibly being the reason!

Yesterday it was 110° here so we put our rigs in 4LO took our friends up to elevation just under 9000’ to get to better temps. Up at Leviathan Peak Lookout at the top of Monitor Pass it was a “pleasant” 84°! My friend has two Motorola Talkabout MJ270R two way radios that we always use but this trip I have my new Baofeng UV-5G Plus so I wanted to use it instead. I asked him what channel he was on and he said, “Channel 2”. I set it to channel 2, transmitted but he didn’t hear me. He transmitted from his radio and I picked it up. I looked last night on my radio to see if the frequencies were the same with the online manual I found for his radio and they are both the same frequencies for channel 2 (462.5875). Does anyone have an idea why there was an issue hearing me? I Googled to see if my radio works with his and it said it does. I didn’t know how to scan from my radio and signal was spotty where we were to look it up. I will put the user manual in the glove box for next trip!

I just got my license not too long ago and my UV-5G PLUS, and then this morning I got an email there’s a new UV-5G PRO!! Oh man!!

Yes that was a typo!

Thank you for the reply and how cool to get a reply from my favorite GMRS YouTuber!! I enjoy your videos so much and your sense of humor! Can you let me know what information to put on the line on CHIRP that I have highlighted on the Radio Reference for my fire station? I have TONE #1, TONE#2, and TONE TYPE, but not sure where those go in CHIRP? Thank you!

I found the list and frequencies of the local fire departments in my county. Station 28 is my local Fire Department, but it looks like they are all 159.190. I entered that into my radio and I can hear them talking but not sure if it is my local station? I have CHIRP open and entered 159.190 on the line but I don't know that to put in CHIRP for the rest of the categories. All I have is TONE #1, TONE #2, AND TONE TYPE. Since I only manually entered in 159.190 am I just hearing everyone broadcasting on that frequency? Still vey new and learning! I do know I cannot broadcast with my GMRS radio, but I would like to hear what's happening! Thank you!

I logged into radioreference.com and chose my county and it gives you all the frequencies, Sheriff, Fire, EMS, etc. El Dorado County is BIG, it goes from where Folsom ends all the way up to Lake Tahoe! I connected my new Baofeng UV-5G Plus to CHIRP and added all the frequencies to it. I just uploaded them using the Radio->Query Source-> RadioReference.com and it added them to the list after the pre-programmed channels then "Upload to the Radio". I know GMRS can't talk to these frequencies, but I can listen in! So, I added 113 channels! Really having a lot of fun so far with the radio! I have yet to hit the trails and used it to talk to my off-road buddies! Still waiting for snow to melt on all my favorite trails and then we got hit again with more last weekend!!

YES!! Thank you, that fixed it! And switched Roger Beep on too!

LOL!! None of the names that were assigned to the frequencies I loaded show on the screen! Is there a way to show names instead of channel/frequencies?

Figured it out! Select All, Copy, Paste after all the pre-programmed channels!!

Can I double dip? I just signed up for Radio Reference and got all the frequencies for around me loaded. If I upload these to the radio, will they wipe out all my pre-programmed GMRS that came with the radio? If yes, how do I add them without wiping out all the pre-programmed stuffs?

Think I got it!

Yeah, for some reason when I choose "Cross" from the pull down menu it doesn't just populate the cell with Cross like you and @WRXB215 have. If I choose "Cross" it pulls up that pull down menu in my screenshot and in that pull down menu there is no "Cross" choice either! It says at the top of the dialog box, "Choose Cross Mode".