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That looks like a great radio. I have been contemplating that radio myself. I like the fact that it can pick up air traffic too. I'm torn between that and the KG-935G. So many people seem to like it. I don't think you can go wrong either way and hope to hear your thoughts once you got it. When I use chirp I'll download from the radio twice so I have an unchanged version should somthing go awry. I think I picked this idea up from one of Notarubicon's videos.

P.S. This is on a Mac. Also I have two of these and my squelch settings are completely different on one from the other. For whatever reason one was more sensitive than the other.

Here is what it looks like in Chirp, Select the "S" under the skip column for any channel you want to skip. I also found it helpful to increase the squelch levels to cut out unwanted noise. your settings may vary from mine. I just played around to find a happy range where I am located. I hope this helps

what he said was And yes if it’s your repeater you can legally prohibit anyone for any reason you want.

I see I got some of that wrong, not enough coffee this morning. I was trying to sort it out before asking if I got it right so not to waste anyones time. No apologies nessasary. I thank you for taking the time and effort to set me straight. I don't think you made this more complex than it needs to be, we can give that credit to the FCC.

Okay I think I finally understand this. Please correct me if I get anything wrong here. let’s say I have a fifty watt mobile radio. I install it at my home with antenna and power. If I use it to communicate from it to a Mobile, HT or another Base Station it’s a “Base Station”. I can’t use it to talk to 467 frequency channels 8 -14 (probably because of the .5 wattage restriction which mobile radios don’t do anyway). Finally if I use it to talk to any of the repeater 467 frequency channels 15 - 22 now my radio is not a “base station” but a “control station” so I am allowed to use these if (and that’s only if) I am talking through a repeater. Otherwise I am not allowed to use it on these channels to talk to 15 -22 aka simplex.

lets see if I get this right... once you do start communicating with other non fixed stations, like mobile or HT now you are no longer a fixed station but a Base Station. The Definition changes and with that you are no longer bound by the 15 watts.

I don't take credit for this, it's directly from Sshannon's down load. "with other fixed stations only". So what it isn't is a base station. You are right about Murs being used for alarms, gate and such (I often hear "Alert Zone one" on Murs from a nursing facility near by), and yes 15 watts may seem high for such a thing. I used that as an example. The definition and the rules for GMRS seem clear though. Granted they don't include an example, it just says what you can and can't do. No more no less. For me that's enough.

I never said you weren't allowed, I said you weren't qualified to comment on if other people understood something or not. I let my frustration get the better of me. For that I am sorry

another way to explain what Sshannon is saying if it makes it easier to grasp, a radio at a gate to a property (a com box if you will) that only communicates (via radio) with a com box in the home on said property. This is a fixed station. At the end of the day it's the same. It's two radios intended to talk only to each other.

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