UncleYoda

Unless your UV-5G is different from mine, it can't be changed from the radio. It requires editing in Chirp. The Shift-D set to "Off" is the same as blank in Chirp, which is the setting for simplex transmit.

One of Chirp's quirks is that for DTCS, you only enter the code in the "DTCS" column and leave the "RX DTCS" blank and it sets both TX and RX to the same tone.

There's no advantage; you could just get a UV5R.

No

Some cigarette light adapters work OK with some radios; some cause problems, typically noise like whining. I haven't heard of any radios being damaged. For me they mostly work at low power. One issue I know of is power may drop relatively quickly when the car isn't running, so for a base station multiple batteries are a good idea. p.s. any kin to Samuel F.? my GG-grandfather apprenticed under him

Isn't it chaos already when people's posts are being downvoted just because of who they are? IMO, that violates the rules anyway.

Only in your mind. I was commenting on the setting being available in the software. It's there, that's it. I will test it when I feel confident again in Chirp not messing the radio up. You still don't understand that this is different than fully open. Fully opening makes it a non-compliant radio. Just putting in other GMRS frequencies at the appropriate power level does not. But you can't seem to grasp the difference so I'm done with this.

And secret downvoting is better?

The part I quoted. (that should have been obvious)

Why do we not get notification, or a way to view, who up/down votes our posts in Tech Discussion?

No it ain't! (if it works) You can keep all your other GMRS channels and (maybe) use those for something else, including the standard GMRS channels.

I reset ch 22 and 38 to TONE and TSQL and that worked. And then set to fake DCS values, which worked. And then put the original DCS values back and it's still reading correctly. So, it's OK for now but I can't be sure it won't reoccur because it did occur on new channels I added for testing.

Sort by vote is default for Technical Discussion section. And it resets to that every time you open the topic.

OK, but it doesn't work for me! There's not much to see on a screen capture - the lines are blank except for the channel number higlighted in red. I looked at Dan's requirements for submitting an issue and I don't agree and will not be doing that.

I gave you an upvote for that. I have done more testing but I get the impression that no one here would care. And I don't see a pattern.