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Which Mac OS? Which radio? I have not noticed that problem when I use CHIRP on my High Sierra Mac for my UV-5R, UV-5RHP, UV-5Rx3 or TYT-UV88

The History behind the Travel Tone

I cannot figure out a workaround for your situation. You might write Radioddity Support and tell them about your problem.

They do want to be bothered, but perhaps just not from Sooners?!? it’s just not: OK! ?

Great news: Where did you get your serial programming cable for the Yaesu FT-857d? I think my Yaesu serial port is current being used either for my SignalLink USB or my LDG AT-100 II antenna tuner; I will have to check.

Version 2.06 will not allow you to do what you want: It only allows the GMRS Channels to be consecutively in order, Channels 1-22, then Repeater only channels from Channels, 23-54; and then receive only frequencies thereafter. I will continue thinking about this problem, after I run out to pickup my Grandson from school, who has my GM-30 clone, Pofung P15UV and which I updated with Radioddity GM-30 firmware and use v2.06 to program.

Brtandmeister's flavor of DMR mostly segregates the Talkgroups geographically, although some "idea defined" TGs are sprouting up, too! Back in 2018 I purchased the cheapest DMR Ham HT available (less then $70), the Radioddity RD-5R, which is basically their GD-77 in a Baofeng format. That way all of my Baofeng accessories work on it, including my higher capacity batteries. I always intended to upgrade to a more expensive unit, but to this day, I am still happy with the RD-5R and now there is an "Open Firmware" project that started a year ago and it seems to give the unit more capability.

Write Wouxun and tell them of the bug in their software (I am not a Wouxun customer) and tell them to send me a 905G as a "Thank you" for helping out their users! ?

Yes: but I can’t figure out how to transmit on 2 meters and 440MHz and MURS on Wouxun like I can on DB20-G

What advantages did the Wouxuns have over the DB20G’s?

How are you enjoying your DB20-G?

I am not aware that CHIRP supports the DB-25G, so: maybe CHIRP support for the DB-20G: no; and Is there a difference: yes

You never know what information can result in a rescue. Local Ham, Benjamin Kuo, AI6YR: Missing Hiker Found After Man Using Computer at Home Pinpoints His Location

I hope the 878 CPS has a good import/export function, because I don't want to do the data entry for hundreds, if not thousands, of channels by hand?!?

Sure you can: You're driving in your Jeep on some off-road adventure with your new KG-935G instead of your dirt-laden UV-5R which you programmed for free with CHIRP. When you use your UV-5R you have actually started to memorize which of your favorite channels for simplex and repeaters by channel number, so you can just go right to that channel by number. But now you've got your 935G and how does it get the same order of channels, so that you don't have to go manually channel by channel to get to Crestline when you need it?!? Because using the "free" Wouxun software you must individually input all "X" number of channels that you have in your UV-5R one by one. Admittedly you only have to do this "data entry" once, until... Now you discover a new repeater and where does it get programmed: at the end of your existing list! So instead of being able to put it right next to your other favorite repeaters, you have to scroll on the fly to get to it, until you memorize what channel number the new repeater was entered into. Why is this?!? Because "free" Wouxun software has NO import, export or even "save as csv" features, which would allow you to take your UV-5R library and just PLOP it into the Wouxun software and then tweak it as needed. Now, I have never purchased RT Systems software, but I am tempted to do it for my legacy Yaesu FT-857d, because owning it for all these years, I still have NO channels in memory because it is a PITA to do so manually and there was no Yaesu software, free or otherwise, when they released it years ago. Why does CHIRP, a "free" program, have the ability to copy and paste entries from one model, UV-5R, to another CHIRP supported model? Because a bunch of dedicated computer geeks get satisfaction from constantly improving an open source computer program while paying their rent and groceries from some other source. The guys at RT, well this is their day job, so they need that $30 to earn a decent living wage to support their families. They don't hold a gun to your head to buy their product; it is just BETTER than the free Wouxun software for that one purpose; maybe more! BTW: I do not own any Wouxun radios (affiliate link not below), but I did once (the UV-3 tri-bander) and sold it on eBay after Baofeng came out with a cheaper model that used all the same accessories as my other Baofengs (mostly my batteries). I did not like typing all my channels into the free Wouxun software back then either! But I did recently buy a TYT-UV88 HT, which is modeled after the Radioditty GM-30 and it can transmit on the Ham bands, as well (a feature that is important to me - all in one radios). The TYT software is clearly better than CHIRP in many ways BUT I still was grateful that CHIRP supports the UV88 because I used CHIRP to quickly import all my favorite simplex, repeater and scanner frequencies in the order I am always used to using them. Once imported by CHIRP, I then use the TYT software to "READ" it from the HT and presto(!), all of my stuff is in the order I need and use it! Now a little tip, I learned from programming my Anytone AT-779UV (the clone of the Radioddity DB-20G) with its "free" Anytone software. Break up the programming into segments and put gaps in between so that as you grow, you can add new channels contiguously to your old ones, and not at the bottom of the list. So for example: My first group are the 30 GMRS Channels GAP My 2nd group are my GMRS Repeaters with Local first and then more distance ones I use afterwards, with a small GAP in between GAP My 3rd group are the 5 MURS channels GAP My 4th group are the 23 repeaters belonging to the Ham Repeater Club in SoCal for which I am a dues paying member (PAPA System), because I want to be able to hit one of these no matter where in SoCal I am driving GAP My 5th group are all my favorite 2 meter repeaters GAP My 6th group are my 4-2 meter simplex frequencies GAP My 7th group are all my favorite 440 MHz repeaters GAP My 8th group are my 3-440 MHz simplex frequencies GAP My 9th group are my public service scanning frequencies, starting with KNX-AM on 450.700 because in an emergency I hope to be able to hear their broadcasts as needed (with scanning turned off of course on this channel). MAJOR GAP All the way at the bottom of my 500 channels, I have the 7 NOAA channels. Now here is what Wouxun gives you for free: OF course as a GMRS only user, your level of programming complexity is much less, but many of your "viewers" are also Hams and even you will need to add more Repeaters in time.

Unzip the attached file and see if your Norton passes it as OK! It works for me in Windows XP; Version 3.02: KG905G.zip

As of this writing: Maybe, No, yes!

...too early and too often! ?

WELCOME to GMRS: A slight degradation in signal strength is all. I use the Diamond version of the Ham Radio 771 on my GMRS HTs all the time! Do you program your 905G by computer?

Hate to see you go! Wyoming is a challenge for GMRS. Lets chat on HF: W7ML; check my email address on QRZ for a scheduled contact on HF

On which Channel (and/or frequency) do you and your Son transmit to each other directly (by simplex and not through the repeater)? Try turning off any Receive Tones for both HTs. By Repeater Channel 15 on the Wouxun KG-905G, do you mean you receive on 462.550; and transmit on 467.550? Some Radios call Channel 15 462.550 simplex, both transmit and receive on 462.550 and call the Repeater Channel for "550" either Repeater Channel 1, or Channel 23 or Repeater Channel 23; have you tried that channel, with the 151.4 tone only for Transmit to "hit" the repeater? Try having your Son transmit on the Output frequency of 462.550 (irrespective of Channel number) with a transmit/encode tone of 151.4 and see if you can hear him with both your receive tone set to OFF and then set to 151.4. Please report back. NOTE: KG905G Programming software might have the wrong Receive Frequency for this Channel RPT-15:

What city/state are you in? Which repeater? can you transmit simplex to your son?

Well the upside to writing a rather long codeplug on my RD-5R is that I get 2 meters, 70 cms, GMRS, MURS, analog and DMR all in one easy to carry HT package!

Thanks for that suggestion, almost perfect, but I see that those are either UHF or VHF but not both.