WSCR898

Well I got the baofeng uv-5g plus. Drove across town to within 3 miles of the tower. Never was able to reach my two friends in town. Been lookin around and seems like the repeater is up but possibly could now be closed, I am getting hourly time and a call sign every 15-20 minutes automated but I don’t know. The one guy I know who has been able to talk is now only able to listen in to the chatter but can’t hear me. I know the sun is playin a part right now but I’m still new to this so I’m kinda getting to the end of my limited knowledge

The repeater isn’t the issue I don’t believe. As the one friend who doesn’t have the gm21 has no problems communicating with anyone and has had a few convos here and there. He is new to gmrs as while. He has a 5g. Radios should be here tomorrow and I will try to dial them in as well as the new 5g pluses I picked up. If I need some help I will for sure message you.

Pretty much where I’m at is flat and repeater isn’t that much more then five miles from me. Repeater is open to public with a coverage of around 60 miles. I have driven around trying to receive or transmit to either of my friends. Neither can hear me. Got two new radios on the way with program cable. If this goes the same way with the new radios, I’ll just put up a base station which was in the plans but not for awhile. My wife just says what ever so I guess that means antennas on the house will be fine. She has her license and next in the works is Ham. I don’t think she will be following me into that hobby lol

I just got two of these and a friend also got two. I can only receive and I can transmit. He has the same problem. There is an open repeater in the area. I can hear others chatting thoughout the day. And at one point heard someone about 30 miles away. I can’t hear my friend who is less than 5 miles from me and like wise. I also have another friend on the other side of town who has a baofeng 5g that can hear everything. Just not me. Does this unit need an update or did we both get bad units? New to gmrs and really would like to figure out what if anything is wrong with this radio. I have also tried to do a reset but that seems to do nothing since they are brand new. Thanks in advance