WSKJ406

I have an older GM-30, maybe 4 years old I keep in my car to scan/monitor local GMRS and HAM frequencies around town. The squelch function doesn't seem to do anything. It stops scanning on the slightest, weakest signals no matter what the setting. Especially on the annoying "ticking" you get sometimes. It will just hang up there and stop scanning until it stops. I don't have this problem with my DB-25G in my Jeep. I know it's just a cheepo but curious if the squelch actually works on others GM-30's.

I'm reading that the "cheap" cable like the one I got won't work without the FTDI driver so I'll try that next.

I got this one and it worked fine, half the price. I was able to read and program the GM-30 and Baofeng 5RM. For some reason it would not communicate with the BF-F8HP which I think is bricked. Not sure where I got this one but it had only 6 channels on it, did a factory reset and went down to 2 channels, lol. Can't communicate with it or upgrade firmware. I read somewhere that only the Baofang cable will work on some radios. https://www.amazon.com/Radioddity-Programming-Compatible-BaoFeng-BF-F8HP/dp/B0B79YWTL6?th=1

The K cable?

Thank you, I just discovered Chirp. Getting the proper cable to program the GM-30 today.

Hello All! First post here. Fairly new to GMRS and I'm trying to figure out the CPS programming. I downloaded the CPS for the GM30 and it seems very straightforward. It installed like a regular program in to my program files with the installer and runs properly. The CPS for the DB25-G I extracted into my downloads but the installer gives an error, however the application will open from there and run. It seems just extracting the files makes the program work from there. It's quirky and the default file of channels it loads by default are not setup like the standard channels. I can navigate to a "normal" channel list file a load it but it's a PIA. I can't find the default file to overwrite it in the files. I would like this to actually install in program files and have it run properly. Any thoughts on this or is there other software that is capable without all this hassle? I don't understand why the to programs are so very different. Any help or advise is greatly appreciated. Windows 10 Dave WSKJ406