Picked up my first pair of gmrs radios the tidradio h3 and have been trying to learn them however I believe I have an issue with the firmware. I’m on 240416 I believe and I’ve tried it in gmrs and open unlocked with the correct programming and I can’t get either of my h3s with that firmware to transmit to a repeater or radios around me. Can’t even get the kerchunk or sound that I’m hitting a repeater. Oddly I can hear repeaters 20 plus miles or fars from me with decent traffic but can’t get them to acknowledge or hear my radio checks.
when I push the ptt button I get the red led and the meter across the top of the screen goes full red.
unfortunately I only have a MacBook with the last intel chips so I don’t own anything that can flash the firmware. Been messing with these for over a week and a half and will probably send them back to Amazon and possibly join the boofwang crew . Someone’s latest video on the f8pro has me interested in just going after 1 good radio as opposed to the 5rm in 10 watt packages I see for nearly half the price
