OffRoaderX

Based on my understanding, they can only do this after they have observed, identified, and fingerprinted the radio.. They cannot tell anything about a fresh, out-of-the-box, never before surveilled radio.

Just for clarification - According to the FCC's own records & data, 99.99999% of people doing it in the last 15 years "get away with it", and 99.9999% of people also over wattage, have also gotten away with it.

FWIW, I have a buddy that bought one that was a dud (probably fake) - measured 99.9SWR/dead short.. they sent him a new one, no questions asked.. it was also a dead-short dud... But I've had a few that worked just fine.

My comment was a bit of an "inside comment".. iYKYK ....

Everyone I know that has had that antenna has thrown theirs straight into the trash.

Have you been diagnosed? Or, has nobody pointed it out to you yet?

You're all a bunch of radio AND internet dorks.

I prefer the 5W when we are off-roading but my wife uses the Mountain Radio. For when we are out of the Jeeps and within 1/2 mile or so of each other it works fine.. But as we get further from each other/around bends/etc, the extra couple of watts on the 5W feels better. Either would probably do the job just fine for what you want.

I have tested and used both of the Rocky Talkie radios and can confirm that they are indeed very rugged and very simple to use. I used to use a Motorola XTS2500 as my off-roading handheld but have now switched to the Rocky Talkie 5W radio because it is smaller, lighter and far more simple to use. and it has pretty much the same farz for local (within 1mile) comms. The silly little (very strong/rugged) umbilical cable that comes with the 5W has also prevented me from dropping/losing the radio multiple times.

This is a very good alternate method in the event that the OP cannot figure out how to fix the settings on his device.

I'm surprised you didnt "throw it into the trash" like you and "everyone you know" does with all their other sub-perfect radios.

And if you are using a Mac, it is in pretty much the same place.

Have you enabled access to your location from your web-browser/computer?

I bet you don't make many friends in real-life either, do you?

"Some people" love to spend other people's money and "some people" are incapable of understanding the difference between some guy putting up a hobby radio antenna and a professional-radio station antenna. LMR400 will work just fine - it is not perfect, but the perfection-per-dollar ratio is plenty high enough for regular people.

Your pizza pan will work just fine.

I TRIED to warn you! *Their.. .and.. Do you seriously think anyone came here to find out what you would do?

OVERLORDS, not gods...

You forgot to say that everyone you know that bought one has returned them or thrown them into the trash..

NOOO! Get the UV-5G PLUS ! Its WAY BETTER.

Maybe i'm missing it in your screenshots - is the offset correctly set at +5Mhz? If the offset is correct but its still calculating it wrong/you can't manually fix it, then box that junk up and send it back to Amazon and get your money back - you've already wasted more time on it than its worth.

Generally, no, especially if the tones are posted in the listing. OTOH, it does not hurt to request access... OTOOH, you could just start using it and if the repeater-owner asks you to stop, then, stop.

Yes, i've seen this multiple times with a couple of different manufacturers. You can try a factory-reset, but in most cases that just puts it back the same way because its burned-in to the chips wrong. Manually changing the frequencies is probably going to be your ultimate fix.

I do not understand how anyone with an IQ higher than 75 believes anything the media says anymore.

Thanks for trying, but this is incorrect. GMRS/the FCC rules fully support "i" or inverted DCS/DTC/DPL tones. In a case where N or "i" is not specified, it can always be assumed to be "N" (Normal).