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Our little mountain town just got over 5 feet of snow in 3 days and most people in my small area are snowed in. We lost power for three days, got it back for 7 hours, and then lost it again for another 26 hours. During that time cell service was working. I spent one day with other neighbors trying to open up driveways and move some downed trees. Everyday I would leave the house to do get a vehicle unstuck or try to clear a path to the wood shed or start and stop the generator, etc. Instead of using cell phones to keep in touch with my wife we used our GMRS handhelds. I also used them to stay in contact with other family near by. I found it much easier to use the radio than a cell phone with gloves on and in heavy snow. My wife even said she was glad we have them. One neighbor was inquiring about the radios. We share a well so it would be nice for him to have one as today I needed him at his house while I got the well pump and system thawed and restarted after getting power back. Our radios may be a fun to have tool/gadget , but, they are a great tool to have when you need them.

538, I live 17 miles from the South (Highway 41) gate of Yosemite NP. The last time I was in the valley I couldn't find any repeaters. There a couple in the Mariposa area but I can't reach them. I have used 5w handhelds in the valley that have worked pretty well. The valley is relatively flat but there are tall tress everywhere. If you are going to hike to the water falls handhelds should work well even if some of your folks are in the camping areas. BTW I grew up in Beaumont. Sean

You can share what ever you want. It belongs to you.

I have a theory that they wait until I purchase a certain radio and then wait a short time to release the new and improved "plus" model. It has happened too many times to be coincidence.

I live on the east side of a large valley at around 3300 feet elevation. There is a repeater on the west side of the valley at 4700 feet. I do not have a perfect line of sight. I had been hearing traffic on the correct repeater frequency occasionaly but couldn't tell if it was on that specific repeater. At one point I had thrown a slim jim roll up j-pole in a tall oak tree and did open the repeater with a handheld. I spoke to someone that didn't know where they were or what repeater they were on. Last week my daughter and her family were on the other side of the valley. I had asked my son-in-law to see if he could hit the repeater in question. He texted me that he could and that he was listening. I was able to talk to him on my 5w handheld but the signal wasn't very strong and reception was spotty at best. I threw the j-pole back up in the tree, 16' off the ground, and has a great signal. I am 83 miles from the repeater. Pretty good for GMRS. Just a good reminder of what a few feet of elevation and a good antenna can do for you. I got my s-i-l and I each a roll up to carry when one of us goes up into the high country. The picture is the peanut gallery watching me throw a line into the tree.

I will have to try Ten Mile again. I tried over a year ago and If I recall it was not operating. My memory isn't that great. If it was in operation I cannot reach it from where I live as there a several high ridges between me and the repeaters. Several of the other listed repeaters were lost in the Creek Fire and were in the process of being rebuilt as were several of the HAM repeaters.

I live in a mountain town south of Yosemite that has a lot of tourist traffic driving through and hear car to car on the FRS channels. I regularly hear at least one local business on 18. There is some mountain top fire lookout traffic on 7 during the late spring and summer but they are using it talk to friends and family in town. My son-in-law and I use 17. No operational repeaters in our area.

I had a Kenwood 2m radio installed in my truck for years with no problems and then one day it started doing exactly what you described. After a ton of trouble shooting I removed the radio and hooked it up to another source of power outside of the vehicle and it worked fine. I finally removed the installed wiring which was routed along a pillar and above the head liner and found the black wire had a compressed spot on it and had rubbed through the insulation over time. The wire was running through a tight spot. I replaced the wire and rerouted it and no more problem. I had done the initial installation so it was all on me... So, if you can remove the radio and use a different power source it might be helpful to either narrow down the source of the problem or at least eliminate the wiring as the culprit.

RAM Stubby cupholder mount I got on fleabag. RAM Universal Cradle for Devices with Belt Clips I got from mypilotstore dot com. Sorry it took so long to get the pictures. Wish I had a cool excuse. I just forgot.

My set-up is a mish mash of RAM mount parts. I will get a picture of what I have later today.

Under the Main Memory Group tab the 462.xxxx frequency would go in the RX Freq column and the 467.xxxx frequency would go in the TX Freq column. The RX CTCSS/DCS and TX CTCSS/DCS have their own column with pull down menus to set the required tones. While testing your radios you might want to leave the RX CTCSS/DCS tone off on both radios until you are sure they are working. And as that other guy said try separating the radios. Are you sure you are hitting the repeater? If you are not you might want to get closer to it.

I have had a KG-935G for over a year and use the Wouxun software to program it. I have repeaters programmed in and also have a RT-97 with it's own set of repeater channels programmed into the radio. What is the problem you are having?

I have the 935G and use it with a cup holder mount and external antenna in my wife's Honda. It works well. That looks like a good set up you have there.

I found what I needed in the following thread on this site: https://shop.mygmrs.com/pages/retevis-rt97-and-rt97s-usb-driver-installation I followed the instructions for the USB driver installation and it worked. Before I was getting the error you have.

I occasionally have the scan stop on either GMRS02 or GMRS06 when I am in the car, but it is normally accompanied by digital signal audio from some close by device. Does this happen on the same channels every time or most of the time? You might check your squelch settings. If you can get to the radio while it is stopped you might try pressing the monitor button to see if you can hear anything. Are you using Priority Scan? I am sure someone who knows more than I do will have some suggestions.

That would happen here if cities had the money, but they don't.

I don't have much GMRS traffic where I am either. I have programmed local LEO and Fire frequencies and listen to them when things are happening like the last month with wildfires. Not complaining, love the radio.

I now realize that I know nothing. It could be that the 935G and the radios based on the UV9P are both Wouxun but are speced out by two different companies. But that wouldn't explain the difference between SMUTESET and SIM-RX. Do the 935Gs that came out after March of this year have both SMUTESET and SIM-RX? Not that I really care, just curious.

As far as I can tell the KG-UV9GX (GMRS) is based on the UV9P (HAM) as is the UV9PX (HAM). Both of those radios refer back to the UV9P manual for some things. I cannot find a SIM-RX in any of the three manuals. There is a S-Mute option that will mute the alternate receiver during RX or TX or both on the main receiver. That sounds like it does almost the same thing. I don't know what the actually wording is for SIM-RX because it isn't in the manual.

Mystery solved. I recieved this from good folks at Buy Two Way Radios this morning: "Yes, It’s a new setting that Wouxun added back in March, after the manual was printed. It allows you to turn off simultaneous RX on both areas. Unfortunately there isn’t an option at this time to do a firmware update. Wouxun has not told us if or when a firmware update could be available."

Yep! I spent some time in the Wouxun programming software and as 6045 said there is no mention of that option and no way to access firmware version. I'm assuming it is a firmware option that was added after I got my 935G in August of 2021. I have used the radio for a year without it so it isn't a big deal but I did send an email to the seller to see what they say. My inquiring mind wants to know.

Well fiddlesticks, my radio is: 52 TIMER 53 AUTOLOCK 54 PONMSG I don't have SIM-RX anywhere. I will have to dig around in software and see what I can see.

I was using the 935G as a scanner the other day listening to two different county sheriff departments during a large wild fire. It got confusing and I was thinking it sure would be nice if there was a way to scan both but not hear both at once. Sad thing is the user manual is pretty easy to read... if only I had read that far. Thanks for the heads up on #53.

To be fair, I don't experience the Sad ham behavior that often and I know there are worse things going on especially on busy repeaters in big cities. It just happens enough to discourage some folks that are new to radio. The internet experts are not limited to radio. Any forum or video comment section has them and that is fine. I have even seen "some people" behavior on a couple of cancer forums I am a member of. Air wave anonymity was a thing long before there was an "on-line". Everyone needs a hobby I guess. I don't always play well with others and I can be a lukewarm pile of sarcasm at times. I just try not to be a jack wagon to people that have genuine questions, people that make mistakes in etiquette, or kids playing on FRS radios. We are all Flawed Dogs.

I didn't want to derail the GMRS Enforcement thread, but after reading it I did a little research on the FCC website. I searched my zip code and found 83 active ham licenses and 13 active GMRS licenses. 7 people on those lists have both active ham and GMRS licenses. I don't know the Sad/Happy ratio on either list, and don't care. I'm not sure I ever cared but am sure I haven't cared in the last 20 years or so. I am amused by the Sadness that has always infected ham radio and is now spreading on GMRS but I don't get involved in the Sadness pandemic. The FCC licensed Sadducees and Pharisees live on via the internet and occasionally the air waves. No Virginia, apparently, we can't all just get along. William Romeo Hotel Sam 218