WSDD519

Keep in mind the H8 is 10 watts ONLY on VHF. For UHF, it's 5 watts. I've confirmed this with three different radios.

I have two of the H8s. No problems at all. Side/top buttons do what I program them to do Weather, light and FM radio. I do not update the firmware if it's working as it should. If there's no benefit to updating, I don't do it. Just to get the latest and greatest is not enough. Overall the H8 is a very good radio and has become my daily driver. The more expensive Icom ID51A stays at home.

Under "Duplex", you have it set for "split"...when it should be "+". That way your offset is correct.

Same here when I set ours up.

All of our repeaters are Kenwood units. TKR750 and TKR850. No problems at all.

Welcome from another Alabamian (Covington County, AL)!

Welcome!

I'm sorry, I don't. I've tried them in the past on different radios (ham) and most were so-so in quality of transmit audio. Receive audio, on the other hand, was mostly fine. The one my friend had was from Tidradio. The Icom ID51A I bought from a ham friend has one...but I don't use it. The commercial stuff (Kenwood, etc.) is much better.

A friend had one on his H8. I was talking to him and he sounded a bit "muffled" so I had him unplug it and use the built-in mic. It sounded so much better..much clearer and easier to understand. He tossed in the round file.

I was sitting at the computer last night when I thought I heard someone calling football plays on the scanner. I turned it up and listened again and sure enough, I heard someone calling plays. This was on GMRS/FRS channel 5. I live not far from the town stadium and school has started back recently. Apparently, the high school football team was practicing and one of the coaches was calling plays down to the sidelines from the pressbox. I don't remember the exact names of the plays...but they're interesting. Other than that, I hear a couple of kids every now and then playing with their radios....holding down the call button, of course.

As others have already said, absolutely she can. There's a guy that lives in my town (in AL) that uses his son's GMRS license. The son is in the midwest. He doesn't come up on the repeater much...but he jumps in from time to time.

Guilty here too.

Amateur operator with a GMRS license and also a police dispatcher. I have no problem keeping the lingo separate. Ten codes are common for my agency but I do not use them anywhere else. I do hear them on ham and GMRS from a few people around here though...mostly new licensees. Most of the GMRS folk here also have ham licenses.

To add to that...the H8 is 10 watts ONLY on VHF.

I haven't played with CB in many, many years. I went by "Cobra" back in the 80s. We had quite a large group of locals on the radio around my area. By the way, what's with the 3 digit numbers?

Have two of the TIDRadio TD-H8s in "alien green" along with an Icom ID5100 (used for a base station). HTs get most of the use as repeater has solid coverage in my area.

Glad you got it sorted out. I really like the IDO4. Easy to set up and use. I'm running a IDO4 w/voice capability on a Kenwood TKR750 being used as one of my club's amateur repeaters. We also have a Kenwood TKR850 being used as a GMRS repeater and I plan on putting an IDO4 w/voice on it as well. We just put the GMRS repeater up a few days ago. It has a 25-30 mile range. It has not been made public yet as we're still in the testing phase to make sure all is good. There's not much GMRS traffic around here except for my group.

I have been around radio all my life. My Dad was a radio jock (DJ) in the mid/late 1960s, I was a radio jock for 20+ yrs (started while in high school) and my Stepfather was big into CB and a ham. It only grew from there. Got my Tech license in 1999, my General in 2008 and my Extra in 2009. A ham friend who also has his GMRS license started talking it up recently. After I did some research, I decided I'd get mine too. So, here I am. WSDD519. I thought it would be a great way to get my wife and maybe a few other family members into radio. I'll take the grandsons riding around town on the golf cart and will take a radio so my wife can get up with me. It gets her on the radio. I think she likes it...although she'd never admit it . I picked up a pair of TidRadio TD-H8s recently. Also, several members of my radio group got their GMRS licenses and since we have all the necessary equipment, we will be putting a repeater up as there's not one in our area. By the way, I do radio every day in my job as the Dispatch Supervisor at my local PD.

Good one! I wonder if the woman he's talking to took the protection order out on him? As a police dispatcher, I see that kind of stuff from time to time. Woman takes out a PFA (protection from abuse order) against "her man" and then continues contact with him by letting him visit.

Once in a while, I can hear traffic on the southeast hub...but nothing on any of the others.

It was working for a short time...but now it doesn't. No matter what computer or browser I use. Update: I was able to hear traffic out of FL on the Southeast hub today (6/6/24). I see activity all over the place but no audio except from the SE hub. Tried two other browsers with no luck.

Thanks and yes, I understand the difference between ham, gmrs and frs. I do have repeater capable radios, I mistyped the model number of the Motorola..should be MS-350R. There are no GMRS repeaters in my area and apparently little to no traffic on the band....aside from a few local stores possibly using FRS (or MURS) for their employees...and the mystery kid. I will be upgrading radios soon...but for now the Motos are just fine. Thanks again!

Old topic...but guess I'll chime in as well. Just got my GMRS license (also a long time ham) and have had a couple of the Motorola FRS/GMRS (MS-350R) radios for a few years. Have used them a few times and but have never heard anything on them...until yesterday. I had to go on top of the house to reconnect the discone scanner antenna...so I took one of the handies with me and gave the other to my wife. I didn't hear anyone talking...but someone was keying up on Ch 1 and hitting the call button. Probably a neighborhood kid messing around. So I called out to see if he would talk to me. My calling out apparently surprised him. Guess he didn't realize other folks can hear him. Maybe he'll get brave enough to call out next time and I'll hear him.

Thanks!

Greetings! New licensee here! Been a ham for 25 years and thought I'd explore a new part of the spectrum! Lots of useful and helpful info here. I look forward to being a part of the community.