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Thank you very much for that. It will save me other hardware and a lot of Coax. I'll make sure there is at least 4 feet between them and give it a shot.

New to GMRS and am looking to put up a base station Antenna on my roof. I have a TV antenna on a pole strapped to the chimney. Can I put the vertical base antenna on the same pole above the TV antenna? If not, how far away from the TV antenna should I mount the GMRS antenna? And lastly if I need to mount the antenna elsewhere on the roof, any suggestions for a good strong mount that attaches to the face of the eves to attach a vertical pole? I have a KG-1000 I'm going to use as the base station and am ready to go as soon as the location of the antenna is sorted. I appreciate any help with this. Brian in Riverside CA

Wow. Guess I shouldn't take things off of YouTube without checking them out first. Thank you very much. Saves me continuing trying to make it do what it doesn't do. I do have the Wouxun UV9GX GMRS radio on order which I should get within the next several weeks. I do have that license so I'll just wait for that one to arrive. I'm also studying for my HAM license so maybe I'll be able to use the GT-5R radio for that once I get that license. I'll get better equipment once I learn enough to warrant it. Thank you all for that information. Was about to bang my head on my desk. ?

The Baofeng GT-5R is a GMRS radio. It is the latest one that is approved by the FCC. It doesn't allow transmission on any frequencies that aren't GMRS by default. But I can manually enter the GMRS frequencies and it transmits fine. It's way faster to use CHIRP to put in all the frequencies and also frequencies that I just wish to monitor such as Fire, etc. So it works as advertised unless I download from CHIRP. I have tried using a fresh sheet in CHIRP after resetting to factory settings and it shows in the duplex column off which shows it won't transmit. So I changed each one of the duplex settings to none one at a time. (have done this three times now) and then load to the radio and it won't transmit. When I go into CHIRP to see the saved settings sheet that I changed to none, all the settings are at off. Don't know if this is a bug in CHIRP but thought I'd see if anyone had a fix before I contacted them. This is my first GMRS radio ever. I've read through the manual and don't even see in the settings where you change the transmit/not transmit settings. Have watched several youtube videos and made sure that transmit in the CHIRP settings was enabled and I'm out of ideas. Think I'll put this one in a drawer for now. I have a better radio back ordered (Wouxun UV9GX GMRS) which is pre-programed. Thought it would be fairly simple and 2 weeks in and quite a few hours and if I thought it was a bad radio I'd smack it with a hammer, but I think the radio is fine and being new I just don't know how to effectively use CHIRP and the settings. Any suggestions would be nice. Thank you everyone who has responded so far. I'll start from scratch tonight and use the suggestions and give it one more go. ?

If I manually put in GMRS frequencies into my new radio it will transmit. But when I download the GMRS frequencies in CHIRP the radio can monitor but can't transmit. In CHIRP in the Duplex column I put none. I save what I have done, load it to my radio. I then close that program and reopen it and the Duplex settings all show off and didn't save the none so I assume it probably up loaded it into my radio that way which I believe would be a setting to not allow transmission. Any suggestions on what settings or such I would use to be able to transmit without manually entering every frequency I want to use? I have reset the radio to factory settings and worked with CHIRP 3 times. Am a little frustrated. ? Any help is really appreciated. Thanks.