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Yes! Steve Shannon for the win. Thank sir, thank you.

I don’t know this radio but if I understand the question wouldn’t this be so it scans for everything regardless of if there’s a tone set on the output of the repeater or not? That is to say that if you’re only scanning repeater channels set with rx tones you’ll be missing transmissions with no tones either from a repeater or not.

As you mention marine HT’s only for use on the water and op mentioned giving some to the kids (ages unknown). As marine HT’s can be expensive and kids likely will want to use also when not on the water this may be something to consider. They do make floating cheep FRS radios though. All that said I think you have a good idea there. I like the thought of having a marine HT out on the water for safety purposes. My father commercial fished and this was required equipment. I don’t know anything about the boundary waters but it seems that would be in use there. Perhaps at least one for the op? Just some thoughts…

I picked up a Baofeng UV-9G with the idea that it's rated IP67 and might be handy for things such as kayaking or just getting it wet while out hiking. I have yet to get it wet but I am really happy with it's performance so far. NOTARUBICON known as OffRoaderX here has a YouTube where he gives it a water test

the weather channel, sorry I like a bad pun... Hi Robert, I am still new at this myself but as I understand it while there is nothing official the folks using them for offroad situations typically use 16 (4X4 equals...) and for the road (travel) people use 19, though there are those that use 20 and you can find out all about the debate by just serching "travel channel" here. I personally just let the radio scan on one level while monitoring the local repeater channel on another.

As someone (someone) who has enjoyed your fine YouTube Hobo channel, one thing that intrigued me about this radio was the bluetooth ability. I was wondering if you tried it with connectivity (connec-tivity) to a headphone or an automobile, aka hands free? Seems like this could be useful on the road if it works for that.

...but this goes to eleven. In all seriousness though Marc thanks for this post, good stuff sir.

Thanks for explaining this marcspaz, helps my understanding of things even if not the issue here. Gil

This maybe a stupid question, I really don’t know but could this be a thing that happens if one radio is in wide band and the other in narrow?

Thanks for op asking this question and thanks for this clarification Sshannon, I was also wondering about this and went looking for info about it. I recently and successfully programmed in a local repeater I’m fortunate is only 4.6 miles from my home and hadn’t yet wrapped my head around the difference between these repeater tones and the CTCSS or DCS codes. I’m new to the GMRS world and really appreciate the community here sharing their knowledge.

Just a thought on this, while comparing temps it may be helpful to include the ambiant temp of the rooms. This might help show the percentage that one is warmer than the other. Particularly if located in different climates. It may not apply here, just trying to help as someone who has done thermal testing of electrical panels, motors etc.

This is excellent. Thanks for sharing this tool.

I am also new here. Fun to see some call signs close to mine. I picked up a Baufeng UV-9G for my first radio and dove in with Chirp pretty quick and have programed some local repeaters in it successfully along with some local scanner channels. I have a wish list that includes the KG-UV9GX. With the backorder issue I thought to start out with something I could readily get (I was impatient, lol). It also didn't hurt that the price tag was cheep while getting my feet wet (IP67). So far I am pleased and enjoying learning about it all and can see adding more in the future. Those KG935g's look to be a nice radio. GL - WRUU653