SteveShannon

I’ve seen “YouTube reports” that both sides have adopted Baofeng radios when needed. I wouldn’t be surprised. 
And, yes, Ham Radio 2.0 had a YouTube video with a representative from the Polish Amateur Radio Club where they were actively soliciting support for Ukraine. I don’t remember the details, but it’s an easy video to find.

I sure can’t tell.  I was kind of hoping to see a “Pofung” label. ?

If it is then this is the brochure for it.
https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/EA_Collaterals/ENGLISH/MOTOTRBO/Portables/DP4000_DataSheet_ENG_lor.pdf

This video purportedly show a Ukrainian drone picking up a Russian handheld that was dropped.  Personally I have my doubts, only because with all the Russians who have been killed in Ukraine, the Ukrainians probably don’t need to do this, but I don’t really know. It’s fun to think that this might have happened, anyway. 
Steve
 

This video purportedly show a Ukrainian drone picking up a Russian handheld that was dropped.  Personally I have my doubts, only because with all the Russians who have been killed in Ukraine, the Ukrainians probably don’t need to do this, but I don’t really know. It’s fun to think that this might have happened, anyway. 
Steve
 

Well I finally got a chance to experiment with the handheld while listening to a long conversation.  The dropping audio problem turned out to be the squelch, and once I turned on the receive DCS for the repeater then the squelch behaved itself and the dropping audio problem went away.  With DCS off the audio was coming and going.  So I suspect a programming or audio circuitry error in the Wouxun KG-S88G, but here is the workaround.

Have I got a deal for you guys. ?
My old Asus EEE resets back to the early 2000s every time I shut it down.
FYI you will get errors from windows update and browsers if you try to operate that way very long.

I’m gonna put up a repeater and make it a requirement that everyone must use a roger beep and the more annoying the better.  We’ll hold contests!
And it’ll be on channel 19.
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I think I just go back to playing with my D-Star, NXDN and P25 radios.

https://mygmrs.com/repeater/2309
If you scroll down past the map, there are some instructions on how to set up zello on that repeater.
Hope this helps.

It is technically possible, but I sure wouldn't do it. There is so much loss running duplexer that the idea of adding a diplexer to share the antenna sounds painful. Like, depending on the quality of parts, your talking about reducing your transmitter and receive signals by 24dB to 30dB. 
 
Real world, one of my duplexers has 10dB of loss and one of my diplexers has 14dB of loss to provide 60dB of separation. With a station that only has about 20w to start would give you 0.3w... one third of a watt is nothing. 

You can download the 935G programming software even if you don't have a programming cable and just open it. It will be the default settings of the radio including the factory channel presets. If it looks OK to you, then reset the radio (menu 57) to factory default. 

The interstitial channels do in GMRS:
(b) 462 MHz interstitial channels. The effective radiated power (ERP) of mobile, hand-held portable and base stations transmitting on the 462 MHz interstitial channels must not exceed 5 Watts. 
(c) 467 MHz interstitial channels. The effective radiated power (ERP) of hand-held portable units transmitting on the 467 MHz interstitial channels must not exceed 0.5 Watt. Each GMRS transmitter type capable of transmitting on these channels must be designed such that the ERP does not exceed 0.5 Watt.

You didn’t provide much background.  
I don’t know if the preprogrammed channels will survive a reset.  Your seller can advise you.  What I would suggest is to download the configuration from the radio before performing a reset.
As far as your second question, whether CTCSS should be on, it depends on whether whatever radio you’re transmitting to is set to expect CTCSS.  If you’re just transmitting in hopes that someone will hear you and chat with you, then leave CTCSS off.  If you’re trying to get into a repeater that requires CTCSS, then turn it on, but you must make sure to set the right CTCSS tone to transmit.
When getting started it’s usually better to leave CTCSS off on the receive side, at least until you know what you’re doing.

^ ^ ^ Thank you, ss. 
 
User JeepCrawlers first reply in that thread is indeed edifying. 
Then, there's mbrun's comment! Hahaha...
"When I hear roger beeps, I immediately think of kids playing with toys and cheap radios, sort of like clipping playing cards onto one’s bicycle to rub on the spokes and make noise while you ridding. Fun for the person making the noise, annoying to everyone else."
I am further edumacated! Thank you. ?

If Kenwood ever started to produce the TH-D74A again in a DMR format they likely couldn't keep them in stock on the shelf. I would be interested in buying one just to get away from the Chinese stuff.

I’m gonna put up a repeater and make it a requirement that everyone must use a roger beep and the more annoying the better.  We’ll hold contests!
And it’ll be on channel 19.
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I think it’s still possibly multipath. 

variation on Jeep crawler that I have used for decades is self vulcanizing silicone tape, E tape, butyl mastic and more tape. Have used heat shrink w/"glue"  inside where tape was not really an option.

Update, got a replacement, working fine.  So the issue is with the radio.

Maybe I didn’t understand what you were asking when I answered earlier. 
I thought you were asking why hams also use GMRS. That’s the question I answered, thinking in terms of different services used differently.
Or are you saying that they’re taking over GMRS and bringing with them traditional ham activities in an effort to make it ham-light, such as calling CQ, using Q codes, and ragchewing on GMRS?
Steve 

Even though this is the first post I’ve read today, I’m unable to “react” with a like emoji, so I want to say this is an absolutely excellent post!  
As far as licensing goes, that’s how it is here in Montana as well.  I’m literally the first person I’ve met in Montana with a license. I requested an FRN many years ago (pre 2005 I think because it was before my job change) for the purpose of obtaining a GMRS license, but then the FCC said they were going to request to make GMRS licenses free.  So, I thought I’d wait.  I and everyone I know who owns GMRS radios have been using them ever since without licensing, until I decided to get legitimate in 2021.
None of the people I speak to using my GMRS radio have a license and most of them couldn’t even describe the licensing process.  Our usage of GMRS radios happens entirely at our monthly rocket launches so we can keep in touch if we need to. We don’t have conversations on the radio. We have conversations while we’re sitting together, but when we’re recovering a rocket the radios allow us to check on each other, or to offer suggestions “I think it was more east than that!”  
Most of us went to an outdoor sporting goods store and bought a Garmin Rino for the mapping ability.  When we’re walking around in the hills looking for our own rocket we appear on each other’s maps screens, at least the last known location.  We may only speak on the radio for a few seconds once a month, but those few seconds are important to recovering rockets that might be worth thousands of dollars.  Having radios also allows us to react in case one of us has a medical emergency.  Many of us are in our fifties, sixties, or seventies (some are even older) and hiking up and down rock strewn hills stresses the human body. Plus, it’s easy to get turned around on an overcast day.
We don’t use networks or repeaters and we never ever hear anyone else on the channel we’ve agreed upon.  I have toyed with the idea of setting up a portable repeater on one of our hills to keep in better touch, but that will result in losing our ability to see each other on our maps.
I still have only physically met one other GMRS licensee, other than on this forum.  But I know a lot of unlicensed people who use GMRS for purpose driven communications just like I did.  They don’t know or care about the regulations and they’re not hurting anyone. They’ve never even heard the word “interstitial” before.

I’m gonna put up a repeater and make it a requirement that everyone must use a roger beep and the more annoying the better.  We’ll hold contests!
And it’ll be on channel 19.
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Note that the image references "FREE SPACE" -- which is essentially a non-existent condition in real life (even a probe moving between Jupiter and Saturn will have the radio and power source acting as some form of reflector/ground).
Compare:
Free Space half wave dipole (note the 2.15dBi figure -- that's where the conversion from dB Isotropic to dB dipole [dBd] comes from)

"Perfect Ground", antenna 100 meters up

And finally, "Real Ground" using high-accuracy model (0.005 S/m conductivity, 13 dielectric constant), same 100 meters up