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Thanks a lot for your reply. It is helpful…... my bad for posing a question that must have been beat to death here.

My bad. Someone musta bumped this old thread and I didn’t notice the date.

Op what route did you go an is it working ?

Is there a reason there is a sudden “avalanche” of licensees? Did something happen to suddenly make these licensed 2 way radio services popular ? Possibly the prepper movement?

OP what route did you go and how is it working??

I really like the h3 as well. It’s a Fantastic “beater” ht and one of of mine has been a beast taking all kinds of drops and falls and still working great. Loud speake and significantly Better RX than baofengs and easy menu editing.

Thanks guys I did multiple factory resets. Switched to gmrs mode with factory programming and no output wattage. Did the same with ham mode as well no output wattage there either. Kinda at a loss at that point and just sent them back. Super weird. They worked good out of the box. But subsequent resets did not fix them. (tested into a dummy load)

Purchased a two pack of h3’s. Checked their power output when I opened them both were about 4.4 watts. Connected them to the antennas, and programmed them with chirp for local repeaters. Radios Wouldn’t connect to repeaters, I checked the power output and nothing. Tried the other h3 from the same pack. Nothing. wow. I’m scratching my head trying to figure out if something I did fried them or if this just happens with these cheaper ht’s? Can keying an ht next to another one fry both of them? I have 3 other cheap ht’s that work perfectly yet these two died instantly after the initial power meter test. I try not to ever key a radio when it’s within a couple feet of another one but if I’m being honest I did do this on these by accident but I’ve done this to my other ht’s a time or two and they all work fine to this day. sent them back. Hope these h3’s aren’t super fragile and pop their finals if they get any sort of rx overload from a close transmitter but that’s the only thing I can think of that might cause this?!? I would think this could damage a RX section of a radio not the transmitter section no?

But only in low light where its ability to send RF in even the dimmest of atmospheric conditions is better than a non dim light spec’d one when operating in late evening or at night.

Don’t.

Yeh buddy!!

Can you recommend a list of currently manufactured gmrs type accepted radios? I’m not being sarcastic I genuinely would like to know what the good ones are.

Are there any current manufactured type accepted gmrs radios that you can recommend? Check that your radio is in fact set to GMRS mode and not Ham. It may not transmit on gmrs frequencies if it is set to Ham mode.

Have you simply done trial and error by, wait for it, trying ctcss rather than DTCS and see if your problem goes away?

A close friend of mine who I talk to regularly on gmrs has two v2 50 watt btecs. Both work perfectly and sound amazing on my end. He’s only going on 3 months of use but they have been good radios for him. Ymmv.