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  1. Welcome. I'm over in Caledonia county and I'm just a rookie with GMRS in general. Sadly, we don't have much in the way of repeaters, or even GMRS chatter here as the terrain isn't conductive to using these radios more than a relatively short distance. I can chat on a repeater in Monroe, NH about 14 miles away with my 20w mobile, though with a fair amount of noise. I don't know of any local training or GMRS groups, after searching. I've done my learning online with videos and forums. Jim
  2. Had mine for almost 3 weeks now and no issues. Don't TX much as not much GMRS action around here though. I do scan all day while driving for work.
  3. Thanks for this. I couldn't find a duty cycle rating anywhere for this unit. This gives an idea. I was considering one of these, for family and friends, to cover my small in Northern Vermont as gmrs repeater coverage is almost non-existent here. The nearest repeater to me is 14 miles away and can chat on it from my mobile in my car, at home, I have a j-pole I'm installing in my attic for a base antenna which should help. Other than this repeater, nothing anywhere nearby. The 5 watt output of the rt97 should handle all of downtown and then some if I decide to pick one up.
  4. Inelson, Is the frequency offset set to +5.0000 Mhz and/or the repeater RX frequency set 5Mhz higher than the TX?
  5. My first HTs are the Tidradio GM-5R (Baofeng uv-5x gmrs rebadge) I picked up for $53 on Amazon (20% off coupon) for the pair with the big batteries, mics, etc. Didn't want to spend much while checking out GMRS and was already used to the UV-5R menu. Ordered a BF UV-9G last week, waiting for the fixed/improved batch to ship at the end of the year.
  6. At the point the cable enters the house is what I have read, and will be doing at my home. With a lighting arrestor, to a 10 guage ground wire, to an 8ft ground rod. A 1 or 2db loss is worth the protection.
  7. Here's what's going on over at Chirp for this radio. Appears they are close to having it supported. https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9407
  8. I tried to get Chirp to work with the db25-g, trying a few qyt radio selections, but still won't connect. On Chirp's website, there is a post about it. Seems they are working on it. The 25g and 20g are very different radios.
  9. I just got my license last Friday but have been listening for over a month now. Like many places, It's pretty dead here in Northern Vermont/New Hampshire if you are looking to have conversations with others on this. The closest repeater to me is a hilly 14 miles away but can chat on it with my mobile in my car sitting in my driveway, though I'm told my audio is at the noise floor, A better antenna might be something to consider as I go. Chatter on this repeater is non-existent during the week but weekends things pick up slightly. Away from this repeater is silence until I get near an areas where OHRVs are big. For now I will listen to the sounds of (mostly) silence.
  10. CHIRP doesn't work for this radio anyway, sadly. The radioddity software is buggy, strange things happen sometimes when writing to the radio.
  11. I just picked one up yesterday. The "green" channel looks to be the last channel(s) that were received. Hard to tell as there aren't many people transmitting. Update 10/25/21: Green means most recent RX on that line (s). I have seen up to 2 lines at a time turning green. If you then transmit on that channel and don't get an RX back, it turns to the color you set as default. Also, if you change the channel on that line, the characters will also change back to your default color. I am quad monitoring though. I haven't tried it with monitoring off for all channels.
  12. Thanks, Looks like delivery is the end of the year.
  13. Hey Everyone from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont (north of line A). Received my license yesterday (WROJ327) but have been listening to mostly nothing (dead air) for over a month now. Learning what I can in the meantime. I drive a lot for work (field service) in northern NH and VT so hoping to catch some chatter. Only 1 repeater (Monroe 625, in NH) within 15 miles from my home and pick it up decent outside, so-so inside, with a Nagoya UT-72G mobile ant and a Radioddity DB25-G. Not ready to hoist up a roof ant (yet) but eyeing the KM4HLF J-pole for GMRS and maybe another DB25-G for a base. Kind of hilly here so not expecting much. Also have a couple cheap TIDRADIO GM-5R HTs that I listened to before getting the mobile. Nice to meet you all.
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