OffRoaderX

IF you 'fried' your radio, it was not because it was connected to a Ghost antenna, unless that antenna or your wiring is defective/shorted. My guess is you've messed up a setting, which is statistically far, FAR more likely than any damage to the radio.

What version and flavor of Windows are you running?

Did you read the words in the Setup Guide? It pretty much tells you exactly what to do. Is there a specific step, error, or problem you are running into? What, exactly do you need?

Works fine here. Must be user-error. Try again, but this time click the button harder!

its fun and entertaining at first, then it just gets old.. I've found it more productive to add him to my block list.

That is because they don't make GMRS radios - You might find some Motorola GMRS or FRS radios, but those are the cheap/low quality type radios, not the high-quality non-GMRS radios he is referring to. Basically, just ignore him because he is rheet-hard-ed.

Because you dont have the exact same equipment/antenna/power/whatever going both ways?

Maybe? It would probably help if you told us the name of this particular group.

Because sometimes that's just how radio-waves work. Not sure what other answer your looking for.

Looks like you answered your own question. There are only two possibilities: You have a setting wrong Its out of range/out of LOS

I'm not seeing "Premium Member" or a Premium Badge below your avatar....

Step(KHz) stands for how much of a Step the radio takes when manually tuning to the next frequency. Ie; .5khz, 25khz, etc.. It does not really apply much to GMRS unless you are using your radio to manually tune-around to find non-GMRS frequencies to listen to. My guess is you will not need to change it.

I use mine for transmitting on both simplex and to repeaters, but it primarily functions as a repeater antenna, so I cut it for something like 464Mhz - but because of the design of the antenna the SWR is virtually the same on 462 as it is on 467, IIRC its something like 1.03:1 .. The antenna is very forgiving..

Yes it has to be cut, as indicated on the instructions in the box.. Those same instructions also very clearly explain what the frequency cuts are, and which sections to cut, and how to cut them. Its almost as if the instructions answer all of your questions. SOURCE: I have a 1486 on my roof.. and, i read the instructions ...

you "hear a call from our repeater, no problem" - so, the radios are receiving the repeater, but then when someone replies, which is no different from "a call", you dont hear it? This makes no sense to me as explained - please elaborate, and remove the RX tone and tell us what happens.

Can confirm.

Now try actually reading his post, then try again.

Simple: The FCC does not care if anyone transmits data over GMRS repeaters, as evidenced by the fact that they have never, ever, not even once enforced this rule (in the context of your post). "Some People" are going to leave comments whining and howling and calling-names over the fact that people do it, and cry even louder that the FCC does not care, but thems just the facts.

Nobody here said it was. You brought up the whole subject in an obvious attempt to try to impress us with how smart you think you are and to try and justify your refusal or inability to purchase a newer vehicle. Nobody cares what you drive.

Get dragged out to the closest pavement and call AAA.

As mentioned, none. HOWEVER -- Midland is based in the United States, unlike most of the other low-cost GMRS radio companies.

This was also my interpretation.

His post says he has them both on "GMRS R5" which I interpret as "Repeater 5" - if this is correct, there is no need for him to know about/think about offsets.. Hopefully he will find his way back with an update.

How far apart are the two radios when you test? If they are closer than 50 feet, get at least 100 feet away and try again. PS: Welcome to the forum.

He's been hearing that his entire life yet he's still not smart enough to figure out why nobody (here or in real life) likes him. Sure, there are those that pretend to like him (probably some family members, maybe some co-workers) but deep down he knows he's broken. Jeezus, at least i HOPE he knows because it would be even more tragic if he still doesn't get it. But the really sad part is that he's probably not used to getting any attention either, so he loves the attention he gets here, even if its 100% negative, because at least people are acknowledging him. (except for those of us that put him on IGNORE).