SteveShannon

I would change this sentence to:
Save As... this file as a backup, and then Save As... again with another name, something like "UV-5G 202301251630"
Then I would continue with:
Import your CSV file. The columns and rows of Chirp should populate. etc...
And before or after upload be sure to do another Save for this file.

FM on your radio is probably the same as Wide FM or WFM. That shouldn't prevent you from connecting to the repeater though.
I suspect the reason you cannot connect to the repeater, despite being close to it, is almost certainly because you are transmitting the wrong CTCSS tone or DCS digital code.  With DCS (also called DPL or a few other things) you also have to say whether it's normal or inverted. 
Or you're transmitting on the wrong frequency. Typically you transmit to a repeater exactly 5.000 MHz higher than you receive from it.  Most commercial GMRS radios will automatically add in the offset if you're on a repeater channel. That can cause problems if you're on one of the very few repeaters that have an offset that isn't exactly 5.000 MHz.  However, this happens very infrequently.  I would be inclined to think it's a tone problem.
You don't need a tone or DCS code to receive and when people have problems receiving the first thing many of us will advise is to clear out any receive tones. But you do need the right tone when transmitting to the repeater or it will simply ignore your tranmission.

I have no idea how it could be destructive.  I understand that “some people” find them annoying — that’s obvious from @gortex2‘s reply — but destructive?  I don’t see how.  I agree with you that the repeater owner definitely has the last say, but I also think there’s little to gain by joining a repeater and right away doing something that irritates many or most of the other users. I would listen to hear if others use roger beeps and then follow the community norm, just to keep the peace, especially if you hope to talk with any of them on the air.

Some hams have had to get very creative. Dipoles or end fed half waves hide along fascia boards or are disguised as Christmas lights.  J-poles can be hidden behind hanging plants or in flagpoles. Tall trees can help hide many kinds of vertical wires. Fences help hide horizontal wires.
If you can make an antenna, you can make an antenna that looks like something else!

Or an even cheaper Baofeng radio. ?

Scotch 33+ 3M electrical tape as @gortex2 said the good 3M will last. The cheep stuff is useless. Also ? for @Sshannon’s UV cable ties. 

There are cable ties that are intended for exposure to the elements (UV resistant).  Just use one of them, but be sure you don’t tighten it up. Coax cable is very easily damaged.  A short piece of ground wire could also be used.
Also, Panduit makes a lot of different cable handling accessories.  I’m sure others do too, but I’m most familiar with Panduit.

How far down the mast will there be cable ? I would use stainless ties from HD or Lowes. Just below antenna I'd wrap it with electrical tape (3M good stuff) then 2 stainless ties. There is no reason to do a loop, just run it straight down the mast. Where it goes into house/shed put a small drip loop and tape with double stainless tie there also. 
For reference good tape will last for years. I removed my fathers tower last year when he sold the house. I had used 3M tape then around the 6' mast with stainless ties about 15 years ago. I still had to cut the tape and ties. They were fine in Upstate NY snow and ice belt. There really is a difference in harbor freight electrical tape and 3M. 
 

DB20G isnt bad for the money, makes a good ammo can radio.

Your idea might have some merit. Doing the manual editing in Excel might be easier than flipping through various windows in the programming software. 
 
Reimporting the data also has a nasty habit of wiping out the zone names I’ve assigned and resetting some options back to their defaults. I have to renter all that again by hand. 

Look in the manual for ANI tones. Disable them if they’re turned on. 

Some hams have had to get very creative. Dipoles or end fed half waves hide along fascia boards or are disguised as Christmas lights.  J-poles can be hidden behind hanging plants or in flagpoles. Tall trees can help hide many kinds of vertical wires. Fences help hide horizontal wires.
If you can make an antenna, you can make an antenna that looks like something else!

I was going to say “Jinx, padlock!”

you were too fast for me,?

So really, BTech should have designed all their radios to use the same cable. I’m in agreement with you there. 

I wouldn't mind if it were the same cable as for all my other radios, but it's completely different cable that requires an adapter cable to program it. Same for all the accessories that I have for other BTECH/Baofeng radios -- have to use the adapter cable with GMRSPRO

Look in the manual for ANI tones. Disable them if they’re turned on. 

Check page 52 and 53 of the manual. It sounds like you are sending the ANI code. Menu 16 to turn off 

i have taken off the rx tone and i then could hear traffic. thank you all for the helpful info
 

That’s a really good point.

That's true, that's true. Baofengs are notoriously slow scanners, but if you kind of know where to scan, you can save a few hryvnias and spend them on some Khortysta Platinum for an after-action bunker celebration.
 

Could be R-168 too. It is part of encrypted "Aquaduct" system, and in this case picking it might worth the trouble.
Here is ad for sale with pictures, ad says that this radio was captured in Donetsk region and has a very secure password: 0000
https://reibert.info/lots/radiostancija-r-168-0-5um-akveduk-spec-svjaz.956129/

Or an even cheaper Baofeng radio. ?

Here's a video from a few months ago discussing the sinking of the Moskva by Ukraine. From the 57 second mark, check out the Baofeng UV-5R. In other news, I've seen images and video over the years of various combatants on Middle East battlefields with mag-mount CB antennas on their Toyota battle trucks. 
Russian warship 'Moskva' sinks in Black Sea: What does it mean? | DW News - YouTube
 

You may need to do a model if the metal structures are a 1/4 wavelength or larger in size in the immediate area of the antenna. Things like roofs, hoods and so on can affect the radiation pattern. Those structures are approximated using a grid of wires in the model.
This is an old model I did looking at the radiation pattern for a 2 meter horizontal loop antenna using a magnet mount on the roof of my old Jeep. I wanted to see if the 18 inch mast they sell with the magnet mount was sufficiently high for good performance. Doesn't look very good. Both photos have the same exact 3D orientation. 
As you can see there are two main areas of high signal radiation. One is mostly directed skywards, useless. The second in in a horizontal plane, which is where you want it. Because the roof is a rectangle the horizontal part is not symmetrical, more signal in the direction of more metal in the roof.