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Just to add. A repeater has a 'listening' frequency and a 'sending' frequency. When you hear the repeater, it is the repeaters sending frequency that your getting. I was messing around with something else on the forum and bashed out the attached to help. Now, I don't have this radio and looked at the manual. But this should help you understand how it all works. If you find the tones for that repeater, you already know the receive frequency, so that should give you a start point. And if anyone has this radio...if I screwed up somewhere, please let me know.

As per my usual approach. Here is a visual showing how to test your radio is setup for a repeater. Admittedly, this does require a second radio. The picture shows a use case with a repeater on 467.7/462.7 with an input tone of 131.8 For simplicity, you can omit the tone on radio 2 (test 2) to check that your primary radio is receiving, and then add it in if you have programmed it on Radio one to test that it's actually OK. That's up to you. All this proves is that your radio 'can possibly' communicate with the repeater. It does not account for the fact that you may 'actually' have the wrong information in the first place. I can't test for that!!! And trust me...i've been there. Hopefully this is helpful.

After all this chatter on the DB20-G, I bought one and popped it into the lady's car for a recent road trip where we were using two vehicles. It's a really great little unit for the price. We're often in a situation where we are using two cars, so this is not a one off. After I got home, I set about doing some programming. Overall, I am pretty happy with it. I also bought a DB25-G for my truck, sadly it stopped working on day two, so that's gone back and I've opted for a second DB20-G. This way, I can keep a common code plug for the radio's. As noted above, you are limited in what you can program while in GMRS mode. I've unlocked it (yeah I know! It won't get used on the HAM bands as I have another better dual band for that anyway) and have programmed it to my specs. I only had two repeaters to code, but I've now named the GMRS and FRS channels as I like, and turned off the dual watch. The color display makes reading the display easy. Perfect for my lady who is not a radio geek! Overall, happy for now and an inexpensive way to chat between vehicles.

Are you looking for assistance? If so, I’ll ask the obvious questions. 1. Have you cloned a working radios settings into the non functioning one? 2. How far are the repeaters from you? Is it possible that you are actually at the radios range limit. 3. Have you tried the following, as you have multiple radios? Let’s call one of the non functioning radios R1 Take a second radio, R2, and program it on a SIMPLEX channel with the input frequency of the repeater(R1 transmit frequency) and with the same tone as the repeaters input. key up R1 and see if R2 responds. If it does, then you’ve proved the radio works and your just not hitting the repeater. let us know how it goes.

I can only think of Monty Python references in response to this welcome, fair sir @SteveShannon to the realm. We will hoist your colors on our battlements. By what moniker shalt though be known on the air of our lord xenu?

I don’t know what radio you are using, but I did a picture for a UV5G plus a while back that shows the programming sequence for that HT. if your using a different radio, it shows the relationship between the tx and rx frequencies and the tones. It ‘may’ be helpful…link below Programming

Something else to try….this is the idiots guide to making sure you’re getting out at least. A troubleshooters guide of you will. set up one radio (the secondary) to receive simplex from the TX channel (from your primary radio) with no CTSS tone to ensure you are transmitting on the +5 channel and receiving it on the simplex channel. if that works, add the CTSS tone to the receiving radio to ensure that you are, in fact, transmitting the right tone as well. if the TX side is working…try the following. set up your other radio (secondary) with the repeaters output frequency…Transmit to the primary radio and make sure it’s receiving on that channel. Hopefully that makes sense…I’m two beers into the evening at a restaurant in Guatemala and trying to type on a small cellphone screen!

I am away from my programming cable and wanted to figure out how to program the UV-5G Plus from the keypad. I took a look at the video from @OffRoaderXon the subject of programming BAOFENG radios, and it was slightly different from the manual for this radio. It got me thinking that it would be worth drawing something up to help myself, and hopefully others as well. I am a very visual person and I usually draw pictures so I know what the heck I am referring to. In this case, I wanted to have a reference for the relationship between T-CTCSS and Input Tone as it really does not make a lot of sense to the new user. Hopefully this will be useful to others when they come across this thread. I did not add the step for the R-CTCSS as it's not absolutely necessary. If anyone spots and error, please let me know so I can make this a handy resource.