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Let me pile on a bit then; when you set a priority channel to scan in the background do you find it causes any incoming signals to have breaks in their transmission every couple seconds?

I’m fairly radio savvy, but I find the db20g to have an odd “cryptic” way of accessing features etc on the radio. I’ve had one in my truck for a few weeks now and i just can’t seem to get comfortable making sense of the button sequences to do certain things. The radio talks like a boss. I think the only way I’m going to like it though is to set it up as a base and sit at home playing with it a lot! It sure is not intuitive in the way it’s laid out. And the stock speaker is not near loud enough for a pickup truck. Don’t even think about having a window cracked and being able to hear the receive.

Why do some of the gmrs repeaters get what sounds to be a digital signal transmittting from them for long periods of time. Say 5 or 10 minutes at a time. It’s an awful sound annoying as all get out. What’s with that? Id imagine it makes using the repeaters(not that I use them but very very rarely) all but impossible when it is digitally transmitting …..

Same here. 27mhz makes simplex gmrs look like a joke in these woods.

Are you getting a tone or cw id or squelch tail back from the repeater with one radio and not the other?

I get about 4 to 7 miles simplex with 50watts and a Retevis rt87 base antenna ontop of my ranch house. Y’all be thankful you live in the open. I’m shouldered by trees and rolling hills covered in forest.

So then all tdh3’s come compliant for gmrs even one buys the ham version ? I guess I could look up the fcc id numbers but that would mean having to do a bit of research and I’m at work lol.

Is the gmrs version of his radio (tdh3) part 95 compliant ?

You can reset that radio to be GMRS. Just reset it and you will be gtg. I think you press the ptt and the blue key at the same time while turning it on. Then select gmrs.

I’ve always wanted to get the surecom version and test it so I could get a real feel of range in my areas as I’m rather new to uhf but honestly I’m leery it would make certain people mad and as much as I like to play radio with my family I sure don’t want to aggravate other users on the freqs. So I’ve not gone down that path and instead beg my wife and kids to give me radio checks ever so often

Can someone post a link to the Y adapter option for this radio? I’ve got two of them and may need to run an external speaker at some point. (posted to follow this) *edited

Bahahahah this is great

Unfortunately call sign has to be given in English. But you could use Morse code as an alternative to English phone identification.

Heck yeh man. I worked at mt baker when they broke the world record for the most snowfall at a ski area in world. Baker is so sick. Artist point. 542. One of the heavy equip operators got drunk one night, drove his 4Runner off the side of 542, stole the loader at 2 am which had square V log chains on it, and ran it down the highway to pull his runner out. The state police were looking for him the next day. Did thousands upon thousands of dollars of damage to the asphalt. Place was absolutely wild. Baker is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. Pure magical in the wintertime. This was before cell phones. The only comms I had when I was there was by letter mail.

I drive truck a few times a month. (Think CDL Kenworth t880’s mostly) I spent 12 hrs with my ht on scan during a day trucking in and around my capital city and I constantly hollered on ch20 and ch19 gmrs. No one is monitoring these channels. The only activity I got all day was when I passed construction sites where they were using frs to com with crane or equipment operators and laborers. Cb had all kinds of trucker chatter and useful reports. Overheard some locals chatting on a non gmrs frequency that the local gmrs repeater has gone down in use a lot in the last 4 years. Kinda bummer. But at the same time might be better for me as I only use it for my family coms and for that less random radio traffic is better.