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SWR meter: a measuring instrument most often used to ruin the tuning of good antennas. NanoVNA: an inexpensive electronic device that is used miscalibrated to obtain the results that are misunderstood.

That's about right in flat single-two story suburban area for a decent handheld. But outside of the town when camping and four-wheeling, it will be different. Both much better and worse, depending on the terrain. If you have line of sight, your Tidradio HTs will talk to each other at 40 miles distance. In my experience, 2m is better in forest and rolling hills, and GMRS/70cm is better in rocky canyons. That is if we are talking about handhelds. You can install mobile radio with more efficient antenna, better receiver and more power, increasing outdoor range somewhat, but still remember about line of sight. No LOS, all bets are off. There is also much less RF interference outside of the town, improving the reception.

Right, tempt him with expensive stuff... ? There are cheaper options for the System Fusion.

Cuz if I hear him needing tacos I may realize that I need tacos too, and that may drive down taco availability at a specific locality. And let's not go into what may happen if everybody will suddenly learn that he's got tacos, while taco supply is low.

Happened to me two or three times. But it was a bit worse, I was using DCS to communicate with my family, and people listening to the repeater did not have Rx tone (as recommended many times on this board, LOL!). While not a major trouble, it can be a nuisance. Especially, if someone with a little understanding of radio, but with overinflated sense of social responsibility decides to act as a rule enforcer.

Repeater owner publishes repeater output frequency, it is your Rx. On GMRS it is always in 462.xxx MHz range. Repeater input is +5 MHz, it is your Tx, and it is always in 467.xxx MHz range.

The question was answered by the first 5 words. It's just that OffroaderX never learned to read.

Congrats! TK-880 is a robust chunk of a radio. 250 programmable channels, zones, operator-selected tone, reasonably fast scan, you name it.

I owned TH-D72 some time ago. It had atrocious battery life with APRS on, like 3 hours or even less, while my FT-1XD happily runs all day (~10 hours) with APRS. I sold D72, and I often regret selling it. I also often do not regret selling it, especially after riding MTB in the hills all day and camping, while using FT-1XD. What I truly miss is an AX25 modem in D72, fully accessible from PC. If D75 has a modem accessible from PC, I would seriously consider it. Yaesu radios do not allow modem to be used by external devices.

As KAF6045 said, more info is needed. Is your HT even programmable by Chirp? By what you said, looks like you've got it working. The Tone Mode = TSQL and Tone Squelch = <some tone> should only hear transmissions with the said tone and nothing else.

That will always be the case. If receive tone is not set, radio hears everything, with and without tones. You need to set TX tone (appears to be achieved) and RX tone on your programmed repeater channel.

Version two has "Ver 2.0" on the label, like this one:

This dialog may (?) pop up always. I do not know, since I do not have v1 TK-880

LTR is a trunking standard, not used for GMRS. Front panel programming: Menu -> Optional Features -> Optional Features 2 -> Self Programming I heard (never had a chance to confirm myself) that v1 only requires this checkbox checked and no HW modifications. v2 indeed requires resistor removal.

I do not have v1 and I don't have v1 manual. I remember reading somewhere that some LTR features are different between v1 and v2. As I understand, for GMRS use they are identical. I also thought that v1, as opposed to v2, does not require removal of the resistor for front panel programming, but I could be wrong here.

Lscott to the rescue! He keeps tabs on all things Kenwood, manufactured since Meiji era.

KPG-62D is a wrong software. TK-880 is programmed by KPG-49D. Depending on where do you source KPG-49D, you might have a file called "serial.txt"

That's what I see, but FCC database does not have a clue about it. Maybe in a month or two...

Can somebody read the FCC ID off the pic? I see 2A3OORA87 or 2A300RA87, neither returns result in FCC database.

Surplus sales of Nebraska (https://www.surplussales.com) got switches too. Among many other cool things.

I was able to download CPS for DLR1060 (US version with FCC ID) from Motorola website for free. Look at this thread, a great summary of DLR/DTR series with links:

Does locking out or deleting all sites except one help? I'm listening to simulcast P25 system, but I'm very close to one of the sites.

I bought Uniden BCD325P2 scanner few months ago, used. They are expensive new, but pop on ebay for much less, depending on condition and accessories. https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/BCD325P2 It does P25 Phase 2, along with Motorola, EDACS, LTR and DMR. However, in my county all city police departments and sheriff are encrypted. Fire is not encrypted, at least some dispatch channels. Analog scanning is great, much faster that any HT would possibly do. I use FreeScan to program, cable is regular mini-USB.

Sure, I'm always glad to help. I can even give you some free advice: 30 seconds of google search is not enough to "erect a good one". You may need 300 seconds, or maybe even 3000 seconds of googling and actually reading stuff, comprehending it, in order to have a sliver of understanding of how tall the order is. For example, this thread that I linked, is long. Even the first post is more than just some guy complaining about too many repeaters. 30 seconds is not going to be enough.

There are some Mondays every now and then, when I just want to drop everything and go to Gjkk in California to break the routine and feel free from the rat race, to be greeted by people with a warm smile and helping hand.