SteveShannon

You spelt farz wrong.

IIRC something like this will occur if you are using the 935G software instead of the software specifically for the 935G PLUS radio.. are you sure you are using the Plus version of the software and not the regular 935G software?  
You can download it here: https://www.buytwowayradios.com/downloads/dl/file/id/1572/product/5920/wouxun_kg_935g_plus_programming_software.zip
If you are already using the correct software then my only other response is "this sounds like a Windows issue".

Less risk, but not no risk.  The coax might still be at risk. What’s the breakdown voltage for the insulation of the coax?  A long piece of coax exposed to a high voltage pulse at one end but disconnected at the other end can still be damaged.  And what about the center conductor?  It isn’t grounded unless you have done something to ground it.  Depending on the design the antenna radiator elements are not usually connected to ground.

That won’t protect the radio at all. Electrons don’t stop instantly and between the antenna connector and the power input there’s a lot of components that are at a different potential than the coax shield and center conductor. 
Yes, it’s not cheap. 
Tying all of the legs to a single ground rod requires changing the path of the discharge. Having a ground for each provides a straight path to ground, plus having more rods reduces the impedance going to the ground. In an engineered ground system such as a substation you might even see a ground mat, chemicals, and other things done to minimize the resistance and create a large bed of equal potential. 

Remember that I personally work in the commercial two-way field.  Ham's and GMRS folks have the ability to disconnect their gear.  Police and fire don't.  And again, a public safety dispatch site really can't.  They need stuff up and operational all the time.  The stuff I am talking about is what gets done with their setups and what keeps them on the air. 
If you disconnect your antenna line from your radio then it's no different than leaving it connected IF everything is properly grounded and bonded.  Because the lines, tower, and equipment is all still grounded. 
Something I forgot to mention with grounding and bonding.  And the reason you bond the coax cables to the tower at the top, every 100 feet down and then at the bottom where the cable turns out of the tower and goes to the building is the magnetic pulse that happens if the tower does get hit.  Due to the extreme currents that are present during the event (strike) there is a significant magnetic field that surrounds the tower.  We all know that a wire will have a field around it as current passes through it.  It's how motors work.  Now crank that from a 6 volt battery to lightning.  EVERY conductor that's around that structure taking the hit is exposed to that field.  And remember that we pass coils of wire in magnetic fields to generate power.  Again, little DC generator hooked to a light bulb with a couple small magnets will light a light bulb when we spin the generator with our fingers.  Turn that up to lightning power and magnetic fields.  So we BOND the coax shield, since it's a conductor back to the tower to equalize that induced current and voltage and shunt it back to the tower and ultimately to ground.
There is a LOT of science to bonding and grounding of towers and antenna systems.  There are some of use that have went down that rabbit hole and have a reasonable understanding of this. 
And I will say this, keeping it simple.  Cars get hit by lightning, even though they are on rubber tires.  And the reason is that 6 inches of rubber ain't enough to keep an arc that's thousands or tens of thousands of feet in length from hitting a car with 4 inches of rubber.  And they get hit because they aren't grounded.  You ever get a bite from a car getting in or out?  It's a thing. But a glass jar isn't gonna keep that genie in the bottle any more than 4 inches of rubber is gonna keep your car from being hit.  IT has to be grounded properly or you are INVITING a strike.
 
 

Terri,
Again I want to express my appreciation for your calm and thoughtful comments and informative posts in response to curmudgeonliness.  Happy Independence Day!

I think radio waves are the same as audio frequencies - resonance....either you are in tune or not.
Something we are all familiar with

Happy Independence Day!

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, and since this is a (mostly) GMRS groups of users, I don't know that you'll find [m]any dissenting voices here.

I'll just point out that BTECH had working, final BF-F8HP Pro hardware in April 2024 at firmware version 9 when I came on board, and my continuous "here's a bug", "we need to make this better", "we need this new feature" meant that the radios shipped 6 months later at the beginning of October 2024 at V29, including a complete re-write of the menus by me to real US English.

V33 was released in the middle of November, 2024 to fix a few bugs we knew about (the radios had to be initially programmed during manufacturing) and we managed to get in fixes for a few user-reported bugs and quite a few user-requested features within the 6 weeks between V29 and V33. V44 shipped in mid-April, 2025 with the CPS 1.2.5m that supports all of the new V33 and V44 features being released at the beginning of June, 2025. V44 and its CPS add quite a few features requested by users and lays the foundation for additional improvements.
These radios are updatable by the user, with the same cable used for programming, and any upgrade problems will either be addressed by support email (when possible) or via warranty replacement( (if needed). I'll also mention that nobody has ever bricked a BF-F8HP Pro while updating it (and believe me, I've had many chances as I've done every firmware release from V8 through V44, across 9 radios (ranging from hand-built engineering samples to pre-production units to early production, and then finally a bunch of production units). Many of these firmware features are exclusive to BTECH, either in perpetuity or for various numbers of years. There's no 'generic' version of this radio and there won't ever be. The user-updatable firmware means that a radio you bought on release day, today, or in the future will all be able to run the latest firmware.

Even before V29 and the radio's release, I was showing it to select users (it had no labeling except for some marker dots in the battery compartment, and I changed the official boot screen to an actual picture of a boot to not give away where it would eventually be coming from). The universal response was "Wow! A Baofeng that doesn't <bleep>!". Before you dismiss it, take a look at the Release Notes below, which shows what has changed in the firmware between V29 and V44:
vers-old.pdf

No it wasn’t. The Q codes started in 1912. QSL started in the 1920s. 10-4 was created in the 1930s.

Premium members can run reports and download files that can be used offline. 

Premium members can run reports and download files that can be used offline. 

They're compatible with the newer full-color screen UV5-family models. BTECH has a cigarette lighter battery eliminator available for purchase now, and I believe an official BTECH extended-capacity battery is coming. But anything from the full-color-screen UV5-family models should work, even if not from BTECH. [Again, not an official position of BTECH.]

Baofeng? Or BTECH?
Baofeng will private label anything for anybody, as long as they meet the minimum quantity. Baofeng also re-uses model numbers for similar or utterly different products, and many of their products have quite short production lifetimes.
BTECH tries to have one product in each market segment, customized for them and available for a long time - you can still buy a UV-82HP from them if you really want one.

Baofeng is indeed a place name (in fact, several) in China. Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baofeng_County (although that is 12 hours from the factory). Right around the factory (Changfu Industrial Zone, XIamei Town of Nan'an City, Quanzhou, Fujian province, China) there's also Baofeng Building Materials Hang, Baofeng Printing Shop, Baofeng Household Appliances and so forth. There's also a Dalian Baofeng Machinery Manufacturing Company elsewhere that makes large metal rollers.

Here is the scoop on the Pofung business.

I don't know what your BFF9 was. There is only one BF-F8HP Pro, it is only available from BTECH, and it went on sale in October, 2024: https://baofengtech.com/product/bf-f8hp-pro/

Thank you for sharing your insider knowledge.  

The number of hams that I know that are also musicians is surprising to outsiders.  There must be some kind of brain function that links the two.

They are not the same company. Baofeng Tech is an American company formed to import and sell Baofeng radios.  Their goal was to add value by providing on-shore service for the products they sell, unlike many of the other sellers of Baofeng.

I’m not sure what you think he got wrong, and it’s certainly possible, but there are no 467 MHz range channels in FRS which allow 2 watts. 8-24 are in the 467 MHz range, but they’re limited to only 0.5 watts ERP.  The 462 MHz channels 1-7 and 15-22 are two watts.  
The eight 467 MHz Main Channels in GMRS (generally reserved for repeater inputs, Fixed Stations, and short term testing) are not allowed in FRS.

I have recently come to appreciate NOAA weather alerts coming to my HT.  I’m also looking to move up in my radio selection and I think this might be a good time to upgrade.  
 
i’ve watched a lot of YouTube videos and did some research but most of the information is 2 to 3 years old.  
 
What would be some recommendations for an GMRS HT that is somewhat water resistant and has the ability to receive NOAA weather alerts?  
 
BTECH GMRS PRO and Wouxun 935 plus seem to show promise.  

You watched the wrong Youtube videos if you are only seeing stuff that is 2 or 3 years old.  
The high-end, QUALITY YouTubers review all new GMRS radios as soon as they are available ..
...just sayin...

No, not for most radios. His combination of previous batteries resulted in charging voltages after charge completion, that were too high for the radio.

So TIDRadio said they're sending me a new one.  They also said this in the email:
"Tip: When charging, please separate the battery from the walkie-talkie and charge the battery alone. This can provide the best protection for both the battery and the device."
Tell me the batteries are defective without telling me the batteries are defective.

I hope you lick this thing. You are very brave. 

RG400 is silver plated conductors, double shield and Teflon dielectric. 
It's what Motorola specifically uses for all their commercial radio jumpers up to 800 Mhz.
If you are not familiar with putting connectors on cables, it's a better move to just buy premade jumpers that are pretested and verified to be good. 
The bit of extra money is worth the piece of mind you get in knowing they will work and are assembled correctly.
For 50 or 100 watts, its fine, the losses are not that significant in the 24 inches of cable that going to a different cable would really make a difference in system performance.  And the cable is flexible enough that you don't have to fight it like you would LMR400 or any other .429 diameter RG8 class cable. 
If you REALLY can't be convinced that it's the right stuff however and want that extra diameter, the go with RG393 jumpers.  Same construction as RG400 / RG142 (142 is a solid center conductor) but it's the .429 diameter.  Your looking at about 15 bucks a FOOT for 393 if it brand name like Belden. 
And if you ARE going to build your own cables, buy brand name connectors and not the crap on Amazon.  There are good connectors on Amazon, but there is some really cheap stuff too that for a repeater, I just wouldn't bother.  Remember that repeaters are a fixed station.  Meaning once you install it at a location, it's just gonna be there.  They don't get moved around like from place to place.  Better 'stuff' being used to build it means less screwing with it and less problems down the road.