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Something everyone should consider: If the SHTF on a large scale, state wide or nation wide instance, NO ONE IS COMING. Expect to self rescue.

It is probably a linked repeater. If you don't hear from the owner you could try to figure out where the folks are that you hear checking in and see if you can find the repeater they are using. Or you could ask someone who is checking in what system they are on. They may or may not answer since linking is a touchy subject these days.

Yeah, I forgot to add that to the list of comments that didn't need to be made. My friend has moved on to a type accepted GMRS radio. Thanks.

For years I had no access to a swr meter and just trusted that what ever antenna, single band or multi band, would work for the bands for which they were advertised. Actually I didn't trust anything, I just didn't think about it. My amateur days were utilitarian at best. Wire up a radio, install an antenna that should be good enough and use the radio. Even so, I never had an issue with any radio I ran.

It is amazing and sad that this attitude is still alive and well. I know it isn't every HAM, but enough to be a discouragement to some folks.There is nothing new under the sun...

That is your answer from Socalgmrs. I know the TD-H3 can be configured via certain buttons pushed during power on to be GMRS, HAM, or both but that does not make any frequency outside of the fixed number of "channels" GMRS. As previously stated, if your radio is GMRS certified it will not be able to TX on your example frequency 441.000 or any other freq outside of GMRS. If your radio will TX on 441.000 it does not make that frequency GMRS. Again, you can monitor any frequency you want you just shouldn't be able to TX on any non GMRS frequency on a GMRS certified radio. Those are the rules (not laws). What you do with those regulations is up to you. As long as you are not being a douche canoe with what ever radio you are using the worst thing that will probably happen is you piss off a bunch of people. And it would appear you are already off to a good start doing that...

UPDATE: Talked to my friend this morning and told him there are work arounds for his issue. He said he was just going to put them back in the box until he could figure out how to do that. Then he said he just wanted to be able to talk to his family. I told him about the GMRS versions of Baofengs (he likes the price point) so he is going to send the UV5R radios back and get a couple of the GMRS versions, and, get a government permission slip. He travels with his family a lot so he can use them for car to car comms as well. Sometimes GMRS is the answer for keeping it simple.

Thank you , everyone, for your responses. I appreciate the help.

I don't have the Q10G but I have the 935G+ with the Channel Wizard. When I use the Channel Wizard to change that setting I have to press the Exit key to get back to the home screen and pressing Exit saves the changes. I also tried making the change and just letting the Channel Wizard time out and the change was saved. I don't know the answer to your issue I just thought I would let you know how the channel wizard works on a different, although similar, radio. Lets us know how it turns out.

Yes, I am GMRS and HAM licensed. He is brand new to anything radio and just starting out thinking about emergency comms with his family. Thanks for the response.

A friend has purchased a couple of Baofeng UV5R radios for SHTF. He is not a radio person. He has entered a frequency he just wants to be able to listen to, however he can also can also TX on that frequency which would not be a good thing to do. Is there a way to save that frequency to a memory channel and then turn off TX from the radio's keypad? Let me get all of this out of the way so folks don't have to give me the standard responses: That radio is a CCP - Yes, I know. Get a different radio - Yes, I know. Use CHIRP to program it - Not going to happen. No computer. It is a piece of crap radio - Yes, I know. Use the Baofeng CPS - Not going to happen. No computer. Get a different radio - Yes, I know. Is he a licensed Amateur Operator - The regulations have been discussed with him. Baofengs suck and so do the people who buy them - OK Read the manual - I did. Can't find anything about that. It is a POS CCP, what do you expect - Yes, thank you Use the search function - I have. Both on this site and others. Now that we have all of that out of the way... I don't own one of these and I don't know anyone near me that does. This person lives over two hours from me and I can't just pop over to figure it out. The real answer may very well be "You can't get there from here", but I just don't know.

I have a 1/4 wave 6" GMRS antenna on my vehicle and it works very well. Much better than a handheld antenna inside the metal box. I went with the shorter 1/4 wave because my vehicle is pretty tall and longer antennas would occasionally hit things and got in the way when I have a kayak on top.

Have you tried scanning with the engine off in your Tahoe? It is strange that you also get it in your house too. I have had this happen with a handheld in one certain area and I figured it was just a transmission of some kind in that area.

I have a 935G+ and changed RPT-16 from 462.5750 to 462.550 and saved the change. I then turned the radio of and back on and then checked to make sure the change was still there. Then I used the channel wizard to change RPT-16 back to 462.5750 and saved the change. Everything is normal again. I'm not sure what you did but I tried to reproduce your issue and couldn't. The Channel Wizard worked for me.

My wife of almost 44 years has never been into radio although she didn't mind me being into them. She now has her own pink GMRS radio. It only took one emergency situation for her to see the value of GMRS. The "once in 1000 years" has happened 5 times to us in the last 7 years, in the form of wildfire evacuations, snow storms taking down power and cell service and various other loss of power or cell service events. Oh and one semi lost person in the mountains that wouldn't have been lost had they carried an available radio. She took advantage of the cell phone outage last week to teach our 6.5 year old granddaughter how to talk on the radio.