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GMRS-50X1 Can't transmit on any channel, just get a beep and the meter moves at the bottom. If I tune to a specific channel on my Baofeng uv-5rhp I can hear the broadcast, but not able to transmit back. Anyone experience this or know what is up?

This is digested from the User Manual, and refined with experience. Hope it's helpful to anyone trying out this model. Copyrighted material used with permission. Good Luck!! Randy Knowles, KAA 8142. GMRS-50X1 Settings.pdf

I just received my BTECH GMRS-50X1 and I am having issues communicating with my local repeater. Hoping I could get some advice here from the folks that have this newly release radio. Here are the symptoms and configs... My local repeater is on 550 @ xxx.0Mhz Tone in/out Config: Channel 27 is set to 462.550 (offset is set by factory default to +5.000) T-CTC is xxx.0 R-CTC is xxx.0 When I transmit to 462.550 I see the radio go from 462.550 to 467.550 when PTT is keyed. I see 'DeC:xxx.0' below the channel quadrants. My local repeater has a courtesy tone but I do not receive the courtesy tone when I Tx to it although I do hear traffic when people are active. My SWR with the 50X1 is 1.15 to 1.2. What's interesting is that I am able to hit this 550 repeater with my MXT400 using the same antenna and setup with no problems and a low SWR (1.15). I am also able to hit another repeater on 650 with the 50X1 successfully and hear the courtesy tone and was able to make contacts. This leaves me to believe the unit is programmed wrong or defective... Additionally I am seeing that settings may not be storing correctly. See the videos below of me attempting to troubleshoot with BTECH support and the weird config storing issue. (I tried my truck antenna and home base antenna which both worth flawlessly with the MXT400) Factory Reset and reconfigure per instructions from support: https://youtu.be/E2uHXAyBnP4 Setting Storing Issue: https://youtu.be/ovlJnxGSQHg Any advice is appreciated!