MichaelLAX

Check out this local "open" repeater: PAHRUMP-1 You can contact me by email if you want some step-by-step instructions: My Screenname @ AOL dot COM

In addition to Boxcar's comment, using your computer to program and install a codeplug saves you from the tedium of hand installing channel by channel. But you can start out by manually adding a few new channels that meet your specific needs. Here are some "tips" on using your radio:

Strange, but any port in a web browser storm!

Can you see this "reply to this topic" box to type in on your screen (or this box on Create New Topic)?

They are exactly the same: although the Radioddity is up to version 2.33 of firmware, while the Anytone is still at 2.30. I do not feel any differences yet. Do you have a Ham license? If so, you can easily open it up to transmit and should look at dual-band antennas Mine works especially well with my triband Comet CX-333 on the roof and a $20 dual band mag-mount on my car it actually performs on 2 meters and 70 cms better than my Yaesu FT-857d and I have a tremendous range for GMRS simplex and repeaters I have a couple of receive-only public service frequencies programmed in, but I am not a big scanner buff. Let me know if you need help with the CPS codeplug software.

If it was not using the Tone required to trigger the repeater; how would you know? Oh: that's the different story! ?

I kept hearing similar "school" functions on the output frequency of a popular Repeater* channel that I use here in Los Angeles; and they were clearly a repeater using a digital tone. I went "fox hunting" one day and traced it down to a major religious middle and high school located at the base of Griffith Park, which hills shield its signal to a large extent. I parked on the hill above it and tuned into that repeater's input frequency and sure enough; eventually, I could hear personnel using their HTs to communicate through their repeater! *Nobody else on the repeater I use have reported hearing it.

Aren't you the same guy who openly is asking for an "all-service" radio in spite of FCC Rules?!? Looking for the ultimate Hiking Radio with support for 2m,70cm,GMRS,MURS Have a little patience for the rest of us! ?

The Link does not work, but if you get a FTDI from BlueMax49ers you did good.

I just got the tip to download the Retevis manual today, as it is more descriptive. But I do not know if the Retevis has the same ability to open up transmission beyond the Ham bands, as the 88 can do.

It woukd assume so, without actually researching it.

Frequency Modulation had not yet been invented by Edwin Armstrong when that rule was introduced.

As a Part 95 certified GMRS HT, there should be no ability to change the pre-set offset frequency

Can’t forget what I didn’t know! ?

Get back to us either way!

Hopefully you ordered the better quality FTDI chip programming cable; about $22

Your "rule" was for AM broadcast stations, with the exception of KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was licensed as KN9FKA as a novice in 1961 in Chicago IL. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1965, I became WB6IRN.

1) Can you take a drive out towards Anchorage and try to hit this repeater: GMRS625 Anchorage 2) Purchase a cheapie (<$30) HT (Baofeng UV-5R or TYT-UV88 [or Pofung P15UV]) and have a family member chat with you!

Use Tones for transmitting only for now; turn off all receiving tones Be sure CHIRP is set to HIGH power for these two repeaters. If you are not transmitting on the Ham radio 2 meter frequency, turn off the tone (How do you enter this frequency? Is there a VFO mode?) Does it look like this:

For example: one of the repeaters you programmed in and that does not work.

How did you find it on the FCC database?

I include it in my scanning of GMRS and Ham and I hear construction quite frequently and telemetry here in Los Angeles.

Not unreasonable for you as the consumer, but obviously unreasonable or at a minimum not worth the effort from the point of view of the manufacturers. The manufacturers know going in that odds are that CHIRP will get ahold of one of their radios and develop a driver for it. I remember in 2010 the UCLA Entertainment Symposium had a panel entitled: “Piracy: How Can We Compete With FREE?” While CHIRP is not piracy, it is still difficult to compete with FREE! so by its very nature you are only going to get baseline software included by the manufacturers.

Is it a reasonable drive up to Chugiak with your 935G?

What's your radio? Your city?