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Thanks! I will dive into your suggestions.

I understand that. Thank you.

I have 1 working tdh3 that has the same version as the 4 non working tdh3’s. I have opened that radio in chirp and then downloaded that file into the other tdh3’s and still no joy. I have programmed multiple radios through chirp and have never had an issue. I appreciate everyone reaching out. I will try downloading new firmware or updating the firmware. Reset on the menu and ptt + star + power on resets have not helped.

I’m beginning to think so too

And….now the two tdh3’s that took the place of the prior two that didn’t transmit now have the exact same problem. I think Chirp is bricking them somehow. They worked great for about 2 weeks and now zero output wattage. I’ve done nothing to them other than fiddle around chirp programming channels and repeaters. Resetting the radios did nothing. Wow. Stumped beyond belief. I’ve got two uv5g’s, 1 uv5g plus, and had 5 tdh3’s and out of 5 tdh3’s 4 of them have went to zero output wattage on my surecom meter after previously showing 3.7 watts. Gosh I hope I can sort this out. It’s not the meter because none of these tdh3’s will open local repeaters and they used to.

G.O.R

We have these problems with frs radios at work. The people using the radios don’t know how to properly key them up before they start talking. (And for the record I tried to talk them out of frs and into Murs so not to take up an frs frequency but they didn’t listen)

Any updates to these kg1000’s sounding a bit over modulated ? Mine is getting occasional reports of it sounding “too hot” or too much mic gain or puupuupuu thhthhthh ish when talking on it. I don’t want to hold the mic 12” from my face when mobile and frankly don’t like doing it from a base either. Purchased it 5 or 6 months ago…..

Race enduros on Dirtbikes. I keep a uv5g in my pack(rarely cell service) and leave another one sitting in my pickup bed volume up. If my buddies finish the race before me because I’m broke down or something they know the radio is there and I can let them know what’s going on. Sometimes we car pool to the races and it’s a bummer when one guy doesn’t get back in a normal time and we all wondering if they are ok.

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.