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Oh... Ha! Glad I asked! Thanks

Oh... hmm that is good to know. So far we have not had any FRS radios in the mix but I will keep that in mind when people start getting them. I didn't realize that narrrow or wide would make a difference between an FRS and GMRS radio

I did find a few options for Simple low cost FRS radios with N1 external speaker/mic options on Amazon. I think I have a decent selection for my friends to look over now. Thanks for all the suggestions! BTW.. I also found a Baofeng FRS 2 radio set on Amazon for $17.96... model BF-888S Anyone know if that is decent? I didn't know that Baofeng even made FRS radios

Thanks They really aren't, but I think the "displays" and "all the buttons" are intimidating to "some people". and they don't really need the repeater functions, or the range, nor do they want to get a GMRS license so I am just trying to make it easy on them

Hmm thanks... probably more than most or our riders would want to spend. but I can put it on the recommendation list. Thanks

I have a GMRS HT (TD-H3) and a GMRS license. I use the radio primary for simplex short range (1-3 miles) communications with one other friend who is also GMRS licensed. We have a group that goes recreational cycling and I lead the group. My friend stays at the back of the 10 or so riders to make sure no one gets lost. The radios have worked out great for us to communicate from the front to the back of the line, but a few of our riders also want to be able to listen in (and sometimes talk) on our communications, but they don't need/want a full on GMRS license or the complications of understanding how to use the radios. So obviously I want to recommend some FRS radios with decent quality, options, and not too costly. I would like them to at the very least to have the two-plug "Kenwood type" mic and earphone plug so that they have options to add a lapel mic or other earplug or other mic/headset options. I have looked at a lot of those "bubble pack" FRS radios on Amazon and found a few that seem decent... but I am looking for any recommendations from people in this forum. Main needs: * FRS only radio (no GMRS option) * Rechargable or recharagable/removable battery packs * lightweight as possible * two pin earphone/lapel mic "Kenwood" port * Simple interface (simpler the better) * Low cost (yeah I know most FRS radios will be low priced but... just saying) Thank you.... Open to either "warning stay away from this radio... " or "this is what you want." type recommendations.

Darn. That's what I get for failing 2nd grade reading. rats!

You have contradicted yourself @OffRoaderX In one of your videos I know you yourself decreed that 16 was the Official Off Road channel because 4x4=16 I stand justified in vehemently disagreeing with you.

If you are using CHIRP to program you can also just put an S in the Skip column (Second to last) for channels you dont want to scan and as mentioned to do it in ODmaster or on the radio face...

Seen that one. One of @OffRoaderX’s works of art.

Yes, certified FRS radios all automatically use the proper legal transmit power for the various channels. GMRS radios that also use these channels also are obey those rules for power output on those channels that they share with FRS (athough the power output levels differ somewhat to the rules for FRS.

I do too. My parents live in an area in central California where they have had to evacuate their home several times of the past 10 years because of fires. Thankfully they have not lost their home to fire ... yet. My father-in-law and mother-in-law did lose their home in Colorado to a wildfire 6 or so years back. I am constantly using Watch Duty and Flightradar websites to monitor fires... and also https://www.broadcastify.com I have not had my GMRS radios for a long time but I will be programming them for local emergency use like that when we are in their area up there. Thankfully I don't live in an area that is really threatened by wildfires... but big quakes are of course a threat and I keep my radios ready for those kinds of emergencies.

I have a macbook pro and I don't think you need to deal with "ports" on a mac. Chirp is not just recognizing the radio connection? I am not using your radio or a programming cable so maybe that is different. I have TD-H3 HTs and use the usb cable to connect... I didn't have to do anything special to make CHIRP understand where the radio was.

Convinced me to buy two TD-H3's

I'm pretty new to things around here and I would like to NODE more about this too... currently I do not NODE anything about NODES.

Awesome. Looks good. Give it a try. Enjoy

Correct. Once you put that in and upload to your radio.. it should be able to trigger the repeater - as long as you are in range and have good ilne of sight to it... probably not indoors if it is an HT you are using

one of the options on the pulldown should match your wanted tone... they are standardized

You should also be able to set it to HIGH instead of medium power, unless you have it set to medium for a specific reason Yes, if you want the CTCSS on BOTH transmit and receive you set the Tone MODE to TSQL and enter the CTCSS in "Tone Squelch" if you only want it on transmit to hit the repeater and leave receive as "open" then set Tone Mode to TONE and enter the CTCSS in "Tone" column

Yes "30" is the repeater channel for 462.725... "22" is just the simplex channel for that frequency. add your CTCSS 229.1 tone to you channel "30" and you should be able to hit the repeater if you have a good line of sight to it and in range.

oh yes... my typo

I put a Nagoya 771G and a shorter Nagoya 701G on my TD-H3s.

I am wondering if it is the #3 menu item... the "power save" setting... I think when it is in power save it might not pick up transmissions for a few seconds between it's monitoring timer. try setting it to OFF By default it might be on 1:4 or 1:3 which I think means it is only checking for activity every so many seconds.

Why do emergency services send vital data on frequencies that sit between publicly used FRS / GMRS frequencies? I mean yes radios should not be leaking out transmissions where they should not but every kid at the park with a walmart radio could be on the frequencies above and below where emergency data is being transmitted.

If it came with the GMRS channels pre-loaded as it should… then channels 1-30 should already be in. The last 8 of those are repeater channels. You can add tones to those for nearby repeaters if you want, or keep them as default open (no tone) channels and add specific repeater channels (with the proper frequencies) after that (basically duplicating one of the repeater channels with the +5mhz transmit offset) but you can name it as that specific repeater and add the proper input tone (TX tone) for that specific repeater. And yes the tx decode and rx decode are where you enter any transmit or receive tones to use with the repeater.