OffRoaderX

My favorite GMRS handheld.

Any mobile highway signs or wind-turbine farms around?

This is a nice little radio. I hear the best GMRS channel on Youtube will be reviewing it a few days before its available for purchase.

Could be abazallion things causing it, but most likely some kind of controls-system on that frequency. For example there is a wind-turbine farm in our area that does that.. Also In my area any time road crews put up certain types electronic road-work signs this happens.. It could be bleedover from some other kind of strong signal in a neighboring frequency, or, as we also have in our area, it could be a jammer trying to jam-up a repeater (and doing a good job of it) .. Or as I've seen posted here lately, it could be a cheap baby-monitor, car-battery charger, or adult toy. Or, it could be something else.

Yes.

Some of the early UV9GPro and the UV9GLite had Roger beeps, but IIRC, the bulk of the UV9GPro units do not have a Roger Beep.. Due to the outcry of customers from around the world, they added it back for the UV9GX. Mid power is now 2watts, high power is still 5watts.. I dont remember what low power is, but its the same as the the UV9GPro. I'm only telling you this because YOU are my favorite user here at MyGMRS ...

I have one right here on my desk.. It's a nice upgrade the the UV9G.. The release has been delayed due to supply chain/shipping issues, but it should be available soon (my GUESS is 30-60 days, but this is only a guess).. Some new stuff on the UV9Gx: theme able color schemes much brighter LED flashlight stiffer knobs can receive down to 219Mhz more power control settings for better battery life a priority channel button, pre-set to the official highway channel, CH19 more pre-programmed frequenicies and most important a ROGER BEEP .................affiliate link below.. Oops.. sorry.. bad habit.

I regularly and easily hit repeaters at 30 miles and 70 while sitting on my couch with most of my handhelds... But, there are other repeaters only about 10 miles away that I can't hit due to the terrain between my house and the repeater.. So like the @BoxCar said.. You might be able to hit it, you might not. Are you CERTAIN that you have the tones programmed correctly? I would remove the RX tones to make it easier to troubleshoot.

Did you mean MXT575? Anyway - I heard a rumor that the MXT575 50W will be available for purchase very..very.. VERY soon... I also heard that all of the good GMRS YouTube channels will post a review of the radio on YouTube on the day it is released, which is very..very soon..

I have a repeater on Zello and it's a kludge to get setup and working.. But once you get through all that, it works fairly well. Also, FYI, although you dont need GMRS license to use Zello, you DO need a GMRS license to transmit on a repeater connected to Zello. Not knowing exactly what you want to do/accomplish, a better/more robust solution might be the MyGMRS Network.

Yes, but it would render your repeater useless.

HAM ...

anyone that got a $35 license - can you confirm that it's for 10 years, and not for 5 years?

Yes, I know 2 people that got 'bad' DB25G radios. IIRC they could not program them correctly but I dont remember exactly so I txt'd one of them to confirm. In both cases they sent them back and had them replaced with ones that actually work. This was a few months ago so I would hope/guess that they are no longer shipping bad units. Edit/Update: Turns out it was 3 people that got bad units, and the issue was as you described, not being able to additional repeater channels and also not being able to do a factory reset. All got replacement units that worked, but it was a PITA. Have not been able to confirm if bad units are still being shipped.

You're in the wrong setting.. You enter a tone for the repeater in the CTCSS (OR DCS/DPL) Transmit (TX) setting and optionally the CTCSS (DCS/DPL) RX setting

On a low battery the HT power-output may be low (depending on the battery and the radio) but because SWR is a ratio of reflected power, it should not change significantly (if at all) based on power - especially when you are talking differences of only 1 or 2 watts.

Remove the tones and see if it works.

The UV9G was my "go to" HT that I used when off-roading for a long time. It's cheap, waterproof, fairly tough, and did the job (talking to other Jeeps nearby) just fine.

I'm curious how far the charger is from your radio/antenna, what kind of radio & antenna you are using, and how much interference you're getting?

So instead of giving us links to all of the "likely $10,000" fines for someone simply using a non-type accepted radio that you've been asked for now 3 times, you give us a link to ONE enforcement from 11 years ago for a BUSINESS that was using GMRS to run their business without a license. Not even close being the same thing, and it's 11 years old. THEN, to top it off, you tell us MORE Kaiser Soze stores?! Dude.. You are an endless fountain of sadhammage and self-important, ignorant entertainment.. I am bookmarking your responses because they are LITERALLY what I talk/complain about all the time and people say "c'mon, nobody is that bad - you must be exaggerating".. I'm going to stop now because you're making this too easy - its like beating up the kid in the wheelchair at school - and I'm starting to feel sorry for you.

"some people"...

As predicted ... We dont need a letter from them because their previous & public record says it for them. Stop telling boogy-man stories - people are laughing at you.

I have checked the last ~9 years of the FCC enforcement database, and the FCC has issued 0 fines or enforcements of any kind against anyone for simply using a non part-certified radio. So thank you for yet another example of "some people" that keep spreading lies/misinformation in some lame/sad/pitiful attempt to make the use of radios more special than it actually is. But it is always fun to have examples of these fairy-tales for people to laugh at/make fun of, so I thank you for that. Of course, you can easily prove me wrong by simply leaving a link to the FCC enforcement entry for any one of these multiple enforcement fairy-tales you keep spinning.. But you already avoided that once when @MichaelLAXchallenged you, and again when@WRPZ296 challenged you, so I predict you will come up with some other way to deflect the actual truth yet again.

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There are too many unknown variables for anyone to accurately answer your question - but it is safe to say that that using a 20-30W mobile radio you can hit a repeater anywhere from 1 to 90 miles away.. Maybe more.. maybe less. I can hit a repeater 70 miles away from me with my 5W handheld and I have hit a repeater from 85 miles away on my 50W mobile.. But it really depends on the mobile radio, the repeater, and what is between the two.