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Ah, that makes sense, the “desense.” I plan on testing tomorrow with a couple of friends, each of us with a radio. Fingers crossed. Thanks for your help.

New here - call sign obtained last week. I have 4 Baofeng UV-5G radios. I used the map to find an open repeater system in my area. I used CHIRP to program all 4 with the same info: Preprogrammed channel 29 Freq: 462.700 TQSL tone 103.5 I am able to reach the repeater with all 4 radios. I did a radio check, am I reaching the tower. Someone confirmed they are able to read me. I also hear the kerchunk from the tower on all 4. When I transmit from one radio, the other 3 do not pick up my Tx, but they do get the tower kerchunk, and other call signs Tx. Question: am I doing something wrong? Why don’t the other 3 radios pick up my Tx from the 4th radio? Thanks in advance for your help with this new guy!

I’m new here, too (call sign obtained last Thursday). As I understand it from using CHIRP to program my GMRS radios, if you’re using the input/output tone in Hz (like 141.3), then it uses the same tone for both and you don’t need to program each separately. As a test, I used the manufacturer software to program mine, and manually entered the tones in the Tx & Rx (output/input) columns. then when I load the radio from CHIRP, it only shows 1 tone with that setting. I did a radio check and said “<call sign> Radio check, am I reaching the repeater.” I got a response back from another call sign saying I was reaching the tower fine, just a little static. It could be that you’re just a bit out of range for the repeater to pick up your transmission, but you can receive the output from the tower? Just a guess - hopefully one of the experienced folks here can confirm. I did notice my Tone column was set to TQSL, not Tone, maybe that is the problem?