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I have my PO box listed on my FRN and both my Amateur and GMRS licenses. 

I believe you modify your FRN first and then update your licenses to remove the physical address. IIRC, it’s no cost to do this. 

Just made my first contact on a repeater, Woop!
My story:
I needed to talk to my son when he walked down the street to play with his friends. He's too young for a cell phone, so we bought him a cheap FRS radio. It wouldn't quite make it, so I bought a UV-5R which worked great for down the street (yes, Tx power was greater than FCC rules). Of course, that led me to NOTARUBICON's videos and Ask Dave and ARRL. I ordered a Wouxun and while waiting for it to arrive I picked up a BTECH GMRS-V2 and a Nagoya GMRS antenna (is that the 771G?). I figured out CHIRP and tones and got my GMRS license from the FCC's truly awful web site.
Very exciting to hear a stranger say your call sign back to you over the radio for the first time.

Just made my first contact on a repeater, Woop!
My story:
I needed to talk to my son when he walked down the street to play with his friends. He's too young for a cell phone, so we bought him a cheap FRS radio. It wouldn't quite make it, so I bought a UV-5R which worked great for down the street (yes, Tx power was greater than FCC rules). Of course, that led me to NOTARUBICON's videos and Ask Dave and ARRL. I ordered a Wouxun and while waiting for it to arrive I picked up a BTECH GMRS-V2 and a Nagoya GMRS antenna (is that the 771G?). I figured out CHIRP and tones and got my GMRS license from the FCC's truly awful web site.
Very exciting to hear a stranger say your call sign back to you over the radio for the first time.

Welcome to the rabbit hole of the radio world!

Here is a little review. Since I got the Nano VNA f I decided to test an antenna that I have had for a while. I had bought 2 for a road trip. Btech sells them for $29. They are a lot cheaper then buying a magnet NMO and nmo antenna. I have been happy with the 2m (144mhz) performance, It has ok performance with GMRS and I feel it has been meh with 70cm (444mhz) performance. So I wanted to see what the numbers were like as far as SWR. I have been mostly using it for repeater usage on 2M and GMRS. No luck on 2m simplex, FRS/GMRS works well for simplex when in range. Furthest GMRS repeater has been to Alexandria give or take 11 miles from the truck. The same antenna, is being tested on a cookie backing pan in my dining room connected to an FT991a. I have managed to connect to 2m Frederick MD repeaters which are 27+ miles away on 5 watts. Still can't make a simplex call 5 miles with the same setup running 30 watts.
 
The stats from BTech 's website:
https://baofengtech.com/NAGOYA-UT-72
 
Frequency Range: 136-174MHz, 400-520MHz; Optimal Frequency Range: 140-170MHz, 420-470MHz Wave: 1/4λ (144MHz) - 5/8λ (430MHz) Gain: 3.5dBi Max power: 80 Watts VSWR : Less 1.5:1 Impedance: 50 OHM Connector: SMA-F & PL-259 Length: 20 inches  
So the VNA is showing the following.
 
144.562 National 2m    SWR 2.53 :1
144.000 MHz                SWR 2.89:1
147.999 MHz                SWR 2.21:1
159.300-163.500 lowest SWR of 1.18:1
 
 
420.000                         SWR 1.92:1
450.000                         SWR 1.33:1
444.900-445.800 lowest of SWR of 1.3:1
 
FRS/GMRS Frequencies
462.5625                       SWR 1.35:1
467.7250                       SWR 1.40
 
SWR was 1.35-1.38:1 for most of the FRS/GMRS band.
 
Lowest actually was at 1.27:1 at 464.575 - 465.763 MHZ well outside of Amateur radio and FRS/GMRS service allocations.
 
 

After posting to someone else's thread and realizing I hijacked his thread about scanning, I figured I'd start a new thread with cool "tips and tricks" that people have discovered with their new KG-1000G radios.   Perhaps we can also use this thread as a "does anyone know how to..." for the KG-1000G.  It will also be an interesting read for anyone considering this radio, since it will hopefully eventually contain a lot of detailed info about how specific features are implemented.
 
I'll start with this one (cross-posted from the other thread - if someone can tell me how do delete that other post, I will be glad to do so!):
 
Quickly adding a "privacy tone" that others are using on blister pack radios
My Jeep and I were in a parade over the weekend for a couple of WWII vets that were celebrating birthdays (97 and 100!).  The organizers were on GMRS/FRS HTs and I asked what channel they were on.  "Channel 7 with privacy channel 35" he told me.  Not knowing which brand radios they were using nor remembering off the top of my head which frequency corresponds to "privacy code 35" on most radios, I was able to use the Menu [41] "SC-CTC" option (which I've programmed to Key C) to "grab" their PL frequency and then save it to my radio on channel 7 within about 30 seconds.  Super handy if you're needing to inter-operate with people on Motorola, Midland, or Cobra radios and using "privacy channels".  Note: If you want to be able to RX and Tx with the tone, you need to also change the default setting for Menu [40] "SC-QT" from DECODER to ALL.    Pretty neat feature that saved me the stress of having to manually look up possible tones and then program them via FPP while the parade was starting...