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I'm in the Penasquitos area near I-15 and SR-56.

I can hit several repeaters in my area (north east San Diego city), but they are extraordinarily quiet.

I expected to hear something other than silence for days on end. Not a big deal, as I don't have much skin in the game. But surprised that it's dead, in my area at least.

Doubt I'll do that, but you never know. One thing is for sure, GMRS in my part of San Diego is pretty nearly dead.

In 48-72 hours, I typically hear zero conversations. Maybe someone keying for a sec, but that's about it. Guess we're just not all that chatty.

Still dead in and around San Diego. Barely turn the thing on, as I was going full days without hearing a thing on any channel.

Now that I've had GMRS set up for a bit, one thing I've noted is that it is really quiet. I'm in the San Diego area and can hit a number of local repeaters, but it seems that there's basically close to zero activity on GMRS. It's not as if I have the need or time to do a lot of chatting, but I was surprised at just how quiet it is. I can scan channels for a day and hear essentially nothing, or close to it. Is this pretty typical?

Here's another question. I found some info on a repeater (not sure I can hit it) and it shows a DLP code of D245 (no letter after that code). When I program my radio, there is an option under DLP for D245N and D245I, but I don't see just D245. Anyone knows what the difference is or how to properly input their code/tone?

Disregard for now. The software can read from the radio. I was holding down transmit and the button under it while turning the radio on. Turns out I only needed to hold down the button under transmit.

Appreciate the article. Cable was provided recently by Baofeng and shows in device manager as Prolific, but no yellow triangle. However, could not read from the radio. Following instructions, downgraded driver to 3.2.0.0. with the same problem. Plug is pushed in fully and radio is in programming mode. Correct port selected (Com 3). Not sure what the issue is. Let me know if you have any thoughts or recommendations. One more thing is that even though it was not reading with driver version 3.2.0.0., when I unplug the USB cable and plug it in again, it seems to revert to the newer 3.6.81.357, which also doesn't work. The specific error I get on 3.2.0.0 is "please check all connections and communication port settings", but from what I can tell, they seem to be good.

Thanks. Chilling w/a glass of wine, so I'll check this out tomorrow.

Thanks! I have 2 Windows laptops. One (Dell) won't work, for whatever reason. I'm currently updating the other (Alienware), which I haven't used in ages, to see if it will work. But I probably will ultimately have a few questions...

I'm using a MacBook Air (current version) running Big Sur 11.5.2 with 8gb of RAM.

Looks like it doesn't work on Mac. Tried to open using an older Window computer, but not reading from the radio. Using a Baofeng programming cable. Only 1 communications port is not greyed out (COM3). Tried a different port which shows as COM4 and that cannot read from the radio either. Let me know if you can figure out what I'm missing, if anything. Getting the error "Please check all connections and communication port settings".

So just to be clear, if the repeater is transmitting a code, and you do not have a receive code set, you will hear that repeater and any other repeater on the same frequency. But if you have that receive code, you can use it to isolate the conversation to only the output from the repeater that you are interested in hearing. Is that correct?