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You have obviously never been there in early Autumn...

Don't of any classes but there is a user here that has a youtube channel where he explains a lot about GMRS, using repeaters, programming and more. Search the tubes for Notarubicon and take your sense of humor with you or it could be a rough ride. I have never met Randy but he seems like a nice guy.

I used that antenna on my Toyota SUV that has a heavy duty rack for over a year. I have a NMO mounted through the roof that I used for 2m. I have since replaced the 2m antenna with a GMRS antenna and use it instead of the Nagoya. I now use the 72G on my wife's Honda with no roof rack and see no difference in TX or RX. Same radio, same antenna. I understand this is anecdotal and of course, YMMV.

I only have the 935G, so I can't compare. However, the 935G has been an excellent radio. I also have a 905G and a S88G which are both superhet radios. I can't tell any difference between them and the 935G. All very good radios. The IP66 rating was a selling point for me as I am often in dusty or wet enviroments.

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I have several different radios for which I use the manufacture's software to program via computer. Each radio has its own software and I can't copy/paste from one to the other. All of my radios are now listed in CHIRP. If I were to read the radios with CHIRP can I then cut and paste from one radio's file to another radio's file even if the radios are different brands (as long as both radios are capable of TX/RX on the same frequencies)? I have manually programmed several hundred frequencies into one radio and would like to move those to another radio or two. Some are GMRS repeaters along a cross country route and others are railroad and other frequencies.

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.