TrikeRadio

The same USBc cable can charge the battery (with the USBc port on the bottom of the radio) AND... you can program the radio with CHIRP or other propitiatory program on the computer by plugging into the SIDE USBc port on the RADIO under the rubber cover .. under the Kenwood Port.

Actually... wrong. The USBc cable that comes with the radio can both charge the battery via the plug on the bottom of the battery... and the radio can be connected for programming with the same cable by plugging into the USBc port on the side of the radio under the Kenwood plug ports.

Yeah, I had a GMRS callsign 12 years back which i let expire... and in the past year decided to give it another try. I looked into trying to resurrect my old callsign (although I was not really attached to it) but found it easier to just register for a new one on my existing FRN. not sure how you go about getting your $35 refunded though... hope you can.

Yep. Took me doing it in reverse order and getting it wrong a few times before I figured that out. But it can be useful like you said, when you know how it works.

One bit of weirdness that I have noticed about the TD-H3 is that if you enter a CTCSS or DCS for the RX it automatically puts that same value in the corresponding TX too. and if you clear the RX tone/code it will clear out the TX tone/code. Does the repeater you are trying to use have a different RX vs TX tone or code, or does it use a CTCSS tone for one and DCS for the other?

Never have used it. Reading about the intent of it, I understand the idea.. but this seems like a "feature" that no one really every asked for, and I am not surprised that it does not work well.

Is this just on the H3 PLUS firmware? Stock firmware? The TD-H3 (original) update files seem to be named different from that... latest for the (NON PLUS) version seems to be H3_250317 Does anyone know anything good or bad about that one?

Let me know if my PM reply to your PM on this helped.. if so I can post it here to help ohters in the future.

Sent you a PM after you PM'd me about this. if what I send you solves it.. I'll repost it here to help others with the issue.

I fully agree. I could not figure out why I would want to use my phone to talk on my radio if they were both right there within Bluetooth range.

Yeah, I am sure it is not the ideal radio for everyone. The two TD-H3s I bought were the first ones I bought for GMRS and they are great for getting into it.. .and still are great for my main use which was using it mounted on my bicycle. Nice and light and small for that use. Also great that it can get popped into a jacket pocket and is not heavy and large. They have actually surprised me at how much range they can do - simplex and to the local repeaters. And honestly i like how they do a/b channel watch more than the radioddity DB-25G mobile unit I bought. They have a separate indicator/marker for activity received on the A or B channel... and another marker showing which channel you have your transmit set on. I like this much better than how the DB-25G does it.. where there is only one marker and it jumps the active transmit selector to every channel it hears activity on .. which can cause you to transmit on a different channel than you intended to! if TidRadio made a nice Mobile unit with the kind of multi channel handling that their TD-H# has.. I would buy it!

I have tried it a few times... I much prefer using CHIRP to program... and doing quick changes on the keypad of the radio itself is pretty easy. so yeah I would likely use OD master as a last choice if I had to.

Ok, my not mean anything but I have seen some people who are trying to figure out what has cause some TD-H3s to fail and one theory is that when the battery is fully charged it might start outputting high voltage before the charger cable is unplugged. They are thinking that surge might be affecting the radio if it is attached at the time.

Did you by chance charge it on the cradle or via the direct battery plug with the battery still attached to the radio while charging?

THAT... depends on where you are. In the area I live in, there are repeaters on every GMRS frequency, many overlap and even with tones to squelch others out, there is crossover interference at times. It would actually be nice to have a few more GMRS repeater pair frequencies in some places where there is a larger populated area.