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I've did both a few months ago when learning which radios best fit my gmrs needs. I find way more use out of a grms radio that's already set up with the "standard" 22 simplex channels and 8 repeater channels than taking a blank ham radio and setting it up from scratch. I mostly use my radios for simplex comes with my team with occasional repeater use. I'm am often in a situation where the group is mixed gmrs and frs so being able to tell the group, "We are using channel _____." today is just quicker and easier.

I've looked at a couple sites and it seems like all the speakers come with a mono plug. I'm not sure they will work with my mobile unit. I need a speaker that will work with this jack, everything designed for a mobile radio seems to have a mono plug.

I know any speaker will work. Googling speakers on amazon and everything is either stereo speaker pairs for a home, computer speakers, or bluetoothish speakers. I was hoping some of the offroaders had something they mounted in a side by side or jeep that looked decent. I have a couple similar to what you linked, I'm looking for something you could mount. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OFKI5TE/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B00OFKI5TE&pd_rd_w=NbfcO&content-id=amzn1.sym.dd2c6db7-6626-466d-bf04-9570e69a7df0&pf_rd_p=dd2c6db7-6626-466d-bf04-9570e69a7df0&pf_rd_r=EK01270BRXXDC3MD8JDH&pd_rd_wg=XaItQ&pd_rd_r=7cc1b22e-f10b-40d8-bcd7-4734666c233d&s=electronics&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aWM&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExS01GMlZGTEtTVEtaJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMjQzNTc2MVcyQjRBVjlIMjNLViZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDQ1OTMzMVNYWFpJVkEzUzU2VSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbF90aGVtYXRpYyZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU= This looks like the style, but as you said I don't think that plug will work with my mobile unit.

I installed a Btech 20x2 in my camper van and I'm looking for an external speaker recommendation to boost the volume when I'm hanging out outside the van. Something semi rugged and easy to mount, not too large.

it's the ncs51 repeater out of Modesto, but there are three linked repeaters and two are listed as ncs51, one in Modesto and one in Madera so I name them differently on my radio. I deleted the photo because the tone is unlisted on mygmrs.com and I don't know want to break protocol. btw, the ceres repeater does come up on mygmrs.com any longer. I never connected to it since I can't reach it from Patterson.

These settings are working. Edit: Photo deleted since the repeater pl tone is unlisted.

I'll try tonight but I think the wife plans on going out.

I think I had two issues. One was the tone mode was set wrong. I should have been on CROSS since the repeater is set up for two different dcs tones, I had set it to TONE on CHIRP and then entered a DCS in what I thought was the transmit column. ( have two other HT's I can connect to the reapeater without issue using different software to set them up, so I understand some fundamentals, I've just never used CHIRP When I saved the settings to the radio, unplugged it from the computer and tested the connection to the repeater, I could see my recieve led light up so I knew I was recieving from the repeater but must have the my recieve tone set wrong (I meant to leave it blank) I then tried to manually go into the settings to remove the recieve dcs tone (it matched the transmit dcs tone I had entered) and test it again... same situation. Went back and checked the settings manually again and the tone I thought I set to off was back again. I set it to off again exited the menu, went back to double check and the dcs tone was there AGAIN. I was confused to why I could not remove the dcs tone through the handset itself, Was that because I had set the Tone Mode set to TONE , or was it some other reason? A previous comment said they thought it might not be possible to change that through the handset..... seems weird if that's true. So I know I had the tone mode wrong. I've since gone into the CHIRP support pages and read the difference between the Tone Modes. But I still don't understand why I could not make the changes through the handset itself. I can post a screen shot of my CHIRP settings when I got home tonight.

It's all working now but I didn't use Chirp. As I was leaving for work I saw that I had recieved the bluetooth adapter to program the radio with a phone app that I had ordered. Using the adapter and the app on my phone I was able to take off the recieve tone and update the radio. I can now connect to the repeater. I just connected to Chirp and now I can see the settings in Chirp. I did not have the Tone Mode set to Cross, now it is.

I won't be able to play with it until later tonight. I'll will see if I can fix it by following the advice, I'd not I'll post a screenshot.

I picked up a uv-5r to playwith and "unlocked" it so I could transmit on gmrs. I dowloaded Chirp and set it up like all my grms radios, set up 22 channles, set the intersticial channels to low power and narrow band, set up the repeater channels with the proper offset and named everything. Everything in simplex works fine, I'm having trouble with one of the repeater channels. I've connected to the local repeater with my other radios no problem. When setting up the uv-5r and testing it I'm pretty sure I'm hitting the repeater because after I transmit, I can see the led light up, but I can't hear it. On Chirp thought I set the transmit tone and left the recieve tone blank. The repeater has two different tones for tansmit and recieve, I leave the recieve off on all my grms radios. When I saw what looked like I was recieved a transmission but couldn't hear the transmission I assumed it was a tone mistake. So I manually went into the radio settings and saw there was a tone set (the same as the input tone I had programed). I turned off the recieve tone then tried to hit the repeater again... same result. I assumed I made a mistake again, went into the radio settings manually and turned off the output town, exited out of the menu but this time I double checked the setting and hit menu again and the recieve tone was STILL there. I can't seem to turn off the recieve tone, it keeps reverting to match the transmit tone. I assume I have something set incorrectly. What settings should I look at on the radio or is it something I need to look at in Chirp?

In a couple months I've amassed a small collection of HTs and a mobile unit in my campervan. A quick not very serious question. Wrist strap or no wrists strap? I have a pile of unused ones.

There is also the ncs51.com group. Also in the Central Valley/Bay Area.

Yeah, I don’t know why the compatibility was an issue but it gave me com 3 as an option and I was able to read and write to the HT. One still weird thing was in the settings window where you select the com port, the confirm button just has three question marks. Instead of “OK” or “Select” or whatever, it was “???”

My son figured it out. He actually went to buytwowayradios site and read the help info. I had to change a compatibility setting to Windows 8, in the Wouxun software.