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I'd be cautious. First, those wires look a little thin, perhaps better suited to the 25 watt radios (hard to tell from the one pic, and no specs, though).  Second, check what your lighter plug will support in terms of current draw. It's not uncommon to see them fused at 10 or 15 amps;running high power, my 50x1 draws between 10 and 11 amps, which doesn't leave much (or any) room for other draws sharing the circuit with the lighter plug.

My post on page 1 gives the menu numbers to change the back light color, menu #18,19,20.

I have been in this position for a while now, having a Technician class amateur license and Restricted license (as well as GROL) for vessel and aircraft......keep wishing I had stayed for the next test. However, where I took the test,I did not exactly want to stick around much longer.....there were definitely some "personalities" at my testing location. I run into some of them from time to time, me working in commercial radio, with a little public safety related, and many amateurs wanting to assist but not wanting to put the time in for organized drills. 
Good luck on your tests, and actually using radios. I know many that have the license that never transmit, they just wanted a piece of paper to put on the wall.

A well done (and free!) site for test prep is hamstudy.org.  I’m currently studying for my general license using their site.
 
Edmo

From the FCC:
"RR holders are authorized to operate most aircraft and aeronautical ground stations. They can also operate marine radiotelephone stations aboard pleasure craft (other than those carrying more than six passengers for hire on the Great Lakes or bays or tidewaters or in the open sea) when operator licensing is required."
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/commercial-radio-operator-license-program/commercial-0
 
I would take that to mean that you may be authorized for any band, but only for Marie or Aeronautical uses. Similar to one using marine radios/frequencies inland for hunting, its outside the authorization and highly frowned upon.
 
If you have your RR license, you have some knowledge. Getting your General is not much more information to review than Tech, and you get 99% of the Amateur spectrum.

Man, I can't find anything about brightness either, only thing I found was color, maybe try a different color that is easier on your eyes.

This is a widely recommended practice with any new radio that you want to program with Chirp. Once you initially read from the radio, you should save the resulting file immediately and name it something meaningful to you like "GT-5R_Original." Then save it again with another name like "GT-5R_20211117" or something like that (in this case it's Radio_YYYYMMDD). You can then edit that second file, save it again, then write it back to the radio in order to load the updated file information into the radio.

If you do an initial READ of your new radio and save this as its default file, then CHIRP knows what radio you are using, from that point on.

Yes, while some codeplug software has separate entries for the transmit and receive frequencies, CHIRP uses the receive frequency and the you input the OFFSET: usually 0.600 MHz on 2 Meters and 5.000 MHz on both 70 cms and GMRS.
Then you tell the radio which direction to go with the transmit frequency:
On GMRS it is always + so that it receives on 462.abc and transmits on 467.abc;
On 2 meters and 70 cms you must look at the information about the repeater as published to determine if the OFFSET is + or -
I think CHIRP has a "how to" guide somewhere...
GOOD LUCK!

Just got mine today, I'll take a look and see if I can find something tomorrow. 

Yes, it appears that Matt has been programming in Public Safety channels, some above 500 MHz) and not Ham repeaters.
The Second example shows some 2 meter and 70 cm Ham repeaters used here in Los Angeles and I will email it back to you to try out in your Baofeng and see if it remembers the frequency shifts for repeaters:

I'm not sure what the issue is for sure, but perhaps the frequencies you're trying to add are outside of the radio's permitted frequency range. If so, the radio could be rejecting the programming you're trying to add.

Yes I did all that. 

Good job of setup for software... This is a new post on BTWR website...   https://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2021/05/how-to-install-the-programming-cable-and-software-for-the-kg-905g.html
Has a good work around as well.
Jack

Whoa, I grew up Rochester. My best friend was a police officer back in the late 90s, he then went to fly choppers for the state police. Small world. 

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! ?

Fun fact, pilots are required to have a "restricted radiotelephone license", it's free and it never expires. I'm a corporate pilot and new to GMRS, thinking of carrying my HT with me to mess with on my down time. Airlines are a different story though, they don't like anything they don't recognize, keep it off and hidden and no one will care. 

Those are good questions:
The least expensive, usually from China, hand-held radios ("HT"), use what is known as SOC technology: System on a Chip - The whole radio is virtually built into one chip.
Most of the more expensive radios (usually 3X the cost and more), have additional circuitry known as a superheterodyne circuit.  This gives the receiver both more selectivity (the ability to differentiate between two powerful signals on two close frequencies) and sensitivity (the ability to pull in more distant and/or weaker signals).
In simplex mode: one HT is transmitting on a frequency and the other HT is receiving on the same frequency. There is no second transmission to overwhelm the receiver of the second HT; only the one signal.
In repeater mode, the first HT is transmitting on 467.abcd up to the repeater; and the second HT is receiving the retransmitted reception signal from the repeater on 462.abcd.
The second HT must differentiate between two received signals: the signal you want to receive on 462.abcd from the repeater many miles away, and the HTs more powerful signal on 467.abcd.  Hence the HTs signal washes out the reception of the repeater's signal on the second HT.*
Superhetrodynes have that ability; SOC's do not.
How much is far enough away?  Differing factors are at play here: The power of the HT transmitter; the distance between the HTs and the distance and power from the repeater.
Experimentation will help you determine the answer.
*NOTE: this is why when two inexpensive HTs are bundled together with the appropriate cabling and settings to act like an inexpensive semi-portable repeater, they must be on the two separate Ham bands: 2 meters (144 MHz) and 70 cm (440 MHz) to avoid this washout effect.

First off, welcome to GMRS.

Those radio are officially GMRS radios because power is just over 2w which is one of the crossover points from FRS to GMRS. I have four of them from back when they were rated at 5-watt.

Yes, it is protocol to use your callsign for legal operation under your license. As you might expect, my wife and I both use the same callsign. However, when we are communicating with each other we append ‘Base’ ‘Mobile’ ‘Unit 1’ ‘Unit 2’ etc… depending which radio we are using. Our radios have labels on them, so if another family member is using one of them they too know what to append to the call sign.

Using the callsign takes getting use to when you first start out, but it becomes second nature with practice. In some cases, it is so much so that you may find yourself repeating it far more that you legally need to. But is is also good practice IMO starting out. When you switch to radios that use repeaters, in all likelihood the repeater owners will want you and others to comply with the FCC rules regarding callsign usage.

Again, welcome.


Michael
WRHS965
KE8PLM

Awesome, that will make things much easier. Thank you. 
 

Sample CHIRP (since I do not have the 50x1; ignore that this is for my HT)

It is always a good idea that when you use CHIRP for the first time, do a DOWNLOAD FROM RADIO and save it as "original" or "default" so that you have the original settings that came with your rig. Also, this "primes" your CHIRP file with the other settings that came with your rig, such as backlight, beep, etc.
Then do a SAVE AS and give it another name (I like to use "50x1 202109282045" so that I can always tell from the date and time which is the most current as I resave to a new name when I make changes) and then make your additions to the file, such as 725 repeater in Channel 30 and then do a SAVE again.
Then do a UPLOAD TO RADIO to put these settings into your rig. ?

The Wouxun uses the two pin T connector power cord.

As does the btech, which also interchanges just fine with wiring harnesses for my icom and vertex radios.

You can also test as you go. For example, install the antenna and test it, then install the coax and test it, then, if you have adapters, lightning arresters, or anything else to add, install those and test again. The purpose of doing this would be to ensure nothing you add to your antenna system causes any problems along the way.
Your most important reading, though, will be the final one, where the antenna system connects to the radio. If you had any flaky readings along the way, hopefully you would have made any necessary corrections, so the final reading should be good (or the last thing you added could be causing a problem).
Overall, though, you want to check the antenna system as a whole. The test as you go suggestion is mostly to help rule out problems as you're building the antenna system.

Correct. The SWR has to be checked with antenna and coax in their installed configuration. Otherwise you may get an inaccurate measurement.