New to gmrs

[WSJD714]

I'm new to gmrs and can't connect to the repeater. I'm trying to connect to 462.675. I'm running a uv9g and have the offset and the ctcss tone put in as listed on mygmrs.com but nobody can hear me. Is it user error or radio error?

[WRHS218]

Since the uv9g is a GMRS radio it is pretty hard to mess up. Some things to think about: Are you close enough to the repeater? If you know the general location you could move closer to it until you are sure you are actually opening the repeater. Have you tried simplex with another radio to make sure your radio is transmitting? Is there traffic on the repeater? I'm sure you have double checked your RX/TX tones but you might want to leave the RX tone off if the repeater has one so you can hear all the traffic on that frequency. I'm sure others will chime in with things I didn't mention. Don't give up.

[OffRoaderX]

22 minutes ago, WSJD714 said:

Is it user error...... ?

..we will reserve judgement for now.

With a UV9g, you dont need to think about the offset - these are the basic steps:

• Put the radio on the correct REPEATER CHANNEL - Probably listed as either "Repeater 20" or Channel 28
• Go into the Transmit CTC menu and enter the tone
• IGNORE/REMOVE the Receive tone as it is optional and at this point its only going to add to your confukulation
• Be sure to save all your changes (you may need to resort to the manual)
• Push the talk-button and talk, let go of button and listen for the Kerchunk/Static back from the repeater, or someone responding

If it doesn't work then either you have the wrong channel, the tone is wrong, you are not close enough to the repeater (just because you can hear it does not mean it can hear you) or the repeater is down/broken/offline.

The fact that you said you "have the offset" leads me to surmise that you've done it wrong.