MichaelLAX

My former wife is EX-LAX! ? Oh, right: Wisconsin!!!

That is just an incredible find: THANK YOU! ? "Apparently there is a TV channel in use nearby that 477.985 MHz falls within. Was that a deliberate choice?"

His whole post is just a complete rib-tickler! ? “Don’t shoot, G-Man; don’t shoot!”

I wonder what frequency their Baofengs were programmed to on January 6th? My guess: FRS or MURS; but I pick MURS with better VHS propagation!

There you go; sniping at me again: I guess you didn't bother to read my earlier reply: Perhaps you are unaware that: "a picture is worth 1,000 words." Feel free to give us a few of YOURS about this photo!

Well that's too bad that you feel that way because $27 radios can be a "gateway drug" into the wonders of radio transmission, and in my anecdotal experience here in Southern California, they are! Then people see the advantages of a more quality and hence more expensive radio and by that time have the knowledge to know what to buy next! ? No, but it is clear that YOU are dying to tell us what it means to YOU; so please end our suspense! ?

I'm sure we've beaten that horse to death! ?

What’s the topic of this thread that YOU decided to post YOUR thoughts in? Oh, right: Baofeng! I wonder if they were compensated for their “celebrity endorsement?!” ?

It’s so easy to disprove!

One allows me to unilaterally communicate by simplex: REV. The other, TA, requires that I must get the other operator to also switch to TA. The benefit of REV is clear to me, especially as someone who uses it often on my GMRS Radio.

No, your prior conflicting statements caused the confusion… BTW: Quality is irrelevant to the discussion between the difference of TA and REV. As @Lscottput it, REV only requires ONE operator to select REV to communicate Simplex with the other. TA requires BOTH operators to fascinate the simplex communication, by both activating TA. It’s clear that REV is better, but feel free to continue to subscribe to the mentality of using the inferior method. Even if it is on a higher quality radio… ?

That explains your confusion between Talkaround and Reverse.

@BoxCarYou were not even the person to whom I asked the question But thank you for your information. I asked @kb2ztxbecause HE said: To which I then asked HIM:

Yes, thank you for your experience, but I was asking what @kb2ztxuses; since he responded:

Ok, educate me: Which button do you push on your HAM radio to "just switch to simplex?" And on which radio do you use this button?

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OMG! Randy’s success on YouTube is due to The Porn Industry! ?

If you keep your HT programmed to that frequency (with no tone), when using the repeater, if you can hear the other party transmitting through the repeater on both radios, then you can probably successfully transmit simplex to that GMRS repeater user, as well! Remember that 50 watts simplex is only allowed by the FCC Rules for 462: 550, 575, 600, 625, 650, 675, 700 and 725!

As you have discovered: Baofeng HTs, being primarily for Ham radio and repeaters, has to allow for both directional shifts and the different standard offsets for 2 meters and 70 cms, and even non-standard offsets. GMRS repeater are always 5 MHz UP, so this is always pre-programmed into the software (on Part 95 certified GMRS radios).

@OffRoaderXhas a YouTube video doing just that; albeit on another radio, but these settings are somewhat generic. I could not find the link; perhaps Randy will return and post the link.

This photograph (and its caption) says it all:

This topic, by its vary nature, is subjective and subject to debate. And at the end of the day, some have shown history, some have shown flexibility and some have shown their intent to be inflexible irrespective of past precedent. And that's why Heinz makes 57 Varities! ? This is likely to be my last comment in this thread...

My mistake: I just checked and it did download as a ZIP file and the same program, The Unarchiver, unzipped it for me. My answer yesterday was from memory and remembering that The Unarchiver did the extraction, my memory was incorrect about it being an RAR file.

Except when circumstances require you to transmit on the Output, yet listen on the Input.

I noticed your request to Radioddity but when I downloaded it, it was still RAR, which I used The Unarchiver on my Mac to extract.