Every GMRS Radio Setting Explained & How it Works

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#gmrs #baofeng #btech
In this video, we provide a comprehensive guide to every menu option on your basic GMRS radio and how it works. This video is perfect for beginners and new GMRS users who are trying to figure out how to program their GMRS radio and what all the settings mean. In general, this will cover Baofeng, Btech, and all basic GMRS radio brands.
Learn how to optimize your GMRS radio for the best performance with the understand of GMRS Radio setting. Let's go!
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Squelch (SQL)
01:07 - Step (STEP)
02:47 - Transmit Power (TXP)
03:18 - Battery Save (SAVE)
04:05 - Voice Activated Transmission (VOX)
04:42 - Wide/Narrow Band (WN)
05:20 - Display Illumination Time (AB)
05:42 - Dual Watch (TDR)
06:36 - Button Beep (BEEP)
06:47 - Transmission Timeout (TOT)
07:23 - Privacy Tones (RDCS, RCTCSS, TDCS, TTCTCSS)
10:30 - Voice Prompts (VOICE)
10:46 - Scanning Options (SEV) Modes - TO, CO, SE
11:28 - Channel Display (MDFA, MDFB)
12:19 - Busy Channel Lockout (BCL)
12:50 - Frequency Direction and Offset (SFTD, OFFSET)
13:25 - Channel Add/Delete (RC-CH, DCH)
13:48 - Screen Colors (RX LED, TX LED, WT LED)
14:16 - Alarm Mode (ALM)
15:19 - Dual Push-to-Talk (TDR-AB)
16:39 - Squelch Tail Elimination (ST, RP-ST, RPTR-L)
18:12 - Power-On Message (PONMSG)
18:28 - Roger Beep (ROGER)
18:40 - Reset (RESET)
18:53 - DTMF Tones (DTMF)
20:20 - DTMF Tones - DT-ST, ANI-ST
22:36 - Push to Talk ID (PTT-ID)
28:16 - Final Thoughts
Here is the link to the Mobile app in the video that I used to decode DTMF Tones:
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@carnellbutler6678 21 күн бұрын

This was for me!!! The radio dummy. Thanks, I feel like a pro now

@brucethomas6296 23 күн бұрын

I really appreciate your platform. I hope it grows big, you give great honest insights !

@brucethomas6296 23 күн бұрын

Dude great video I will be watching this multiple times, great learning opportunity !

@citizensurvivalplan 23 күн бұрын

Thanks alot friend I am glad you enjoy this content!

@meganpingatore431 23 күн бұрын

Really helpful - thank you 🙏

@DaddyyCrab 21 күн бұрын

Thanks for the education and keeping it simple! 😎

@citizensurvivalplan 21 күн бұрын

Thanks alot!

@sixshooter4570 19 күн бұрын

Great video explaining all of the settings. I have a Wouxun KG-UV9GX and it didn't have a proper manual although I do have a spreadsheet explaining the various settings. I'll now fire up Chirp, I also have the extra CD and plug that I purchased for programming this radio. Thanks for your time and effort. I'm also thinking about purchasing a set of the Wouxun KG-935G Plus radios.

@unitedstatesirie7431 10 күн бұрын

The only handheld duel band radio I trust for Survival use is the Yaesu FT-60R radio. ✅ This radio uses a rechargeable battery pack and an optional AA alkaline battery tray.

@NickBEADG 5 күн бұрын

Wide gives you better range, but penetrates obstacles less. Narrow band is shorter range but penetrates better. So if you are in a crowded place, but close, use narrow.

@citizensurvivalplan 4 күн бұрын

Through extensive real world tests I have not found that be be true only in theory. Is there a very specific setup that would produce this result.... probably. For general use wide band is best.

@joeymertle9809 21 күн бұрын

Great video. Just what I needed.

@sloppysquab2556 14 күн бұрын

great video, ill watch this a few times to process it all lol

@EJB24103 17 күн бұрын

Great Video and tutorial, thanks for sharing 👍🏼

@NickBEADG 5 күн бұрын

Awesome video, very informative!

@jim3922 22 күн бұрын

thanks for going through these setting. it’s helping a little. I bought a pair of TidHD radios because… youtube people were really excited about them. I just wanted something I could talk from home to work with the wife, a few miles. but that thing is way too complicated. i’m not even sure how to get started. I haven’t even showed my wife because she’s just going to shutdown when she sees it. My area’s radio club doesn’t have a GRMS repeater listed on their website. So I feel like half the functionality of these fancy GRMS radios isn’t going to be used by me. maybe I should have bought a higher quality set of FRS radios instead…

@citizensurvivalplan 22 күн бұрын

GMRS radios really are not any more complicated to use simplex (radio to radio) then frs. If you are going a few miles you will not reach with FRS. remember you can set up your own repeater its really easy and also you can use a 20 watt base station radio in your car from the outlet this will give you alot more range then a handheld.

@jim3922 22 күн бұрын

@@citizensurvivalplan interesting. maybe i should look into my own repeater. i have a two story house and could possibly put an antenna in the attic. I don’t want to be climbing my roof, so while the chimney would probably be a great place to mount something, I’m not interested in the climb.

@shadowpapito 23 күн бұрын

Thank you ..

@chrissewell1608 20 күн бұрын

Good job explaing all the ANI code stuff. I just wonder if there is some computer program out there that actually recieves and decodes all the DTMF tones? Because its pretty useless for a group of folks to use the features if they can't tell who is talking or in trouble!

@citizensurvivalplan 20 күн бұрын

The kg 935g can decode them and the btech phone app can. I am sure that a computer program can too you will just have to find one.

@omywonkenobi 22 күн бұрын

@citizensurvivalplan, You have explained the different menu items on this particular radio very well and easy to understand language. I see how the explanation is very similar to the menu items on a TidRadio TD=H3 which a lot of people are talking about in the forums. Thank you very much. Question: Do you have access to a TidRadio TD-H3 and can you make the procedure on how DTMF codes are programmed and used on the TD-H3?

@citizensurvivalplan 22 күн бұрын

You need to do DTMF in chirp like I did in the video. Pretty much all the menu items I cover in the video on the btech/ baofeng radio are in the TidRadio TD-H3.

@didotb01 16 күн бұрын

4:42 it's actually the opposite, the narrow band would "reach further" but practically doesn't do much in your everyday transmission in vhf/uhf bands. What this does best however is save space, so an entire wide fm band can now be used by 2 different groups of people; and, what I actually believe the most important, is it saves you battery power in exchange for audibility. If you average the total power transmitted over WFM and NFM, NFM would be much more efficient albeit harder to understand the transmitting side. Imagine a 5w transmitter on 1st floor and a receiver on the 3rd floor, and getting a 59 signal report on WFM vs a 49 on NFM Did the narrow vs wide started with the AM vs SSB? Only on those modulations do I actually think it'd matter a lot.

@nunosapunso6239 21 күн бұрын

What about Rx Hop(frequency hopping)?

@citizensurvivalplan 16 күн бұрын

what about it?

@TheRealRenn 20 күн бұрын

Video intro image is a lol....fantasy where one dies in 2-seconds with zero re-spawn option. It's what we have become in our minds it appears.

@citizensurvivalplan 20 күн бұрын

But did you learn how to use your radio?

@citizensurvivalplan 11 күн бұрын

LMOA! please look at your own profile picture!!!! also a nameless faceless profile.

@TheRealRenn 10 күн бұрын

@@citizensurvivalplan got anything else, Karen? And yeah, I know how to use my GMRS radios and repeater. Thanks for asking.

@citizensurvivalplan 10 күн бұрын

@@TheRealRenn If you knew how to use your radio why were you watching this video?

@TheRealRenn 10 күн бұрын

@@citizensurvivalplan because you came up in my feed....it's the YT Algorithm. You seem triggered because you are not getting what you want here. Keep posting...I find it amusing. Or just click that ghost button option. Mkay?

@chrissewell1608 20 күн бұрын

The phrase "Privacy Tones" is misleading. There is no privacy or secure frequency in radio!

@citizensurvivalplan 20 күн бұрын

Yes this is why I explained just that in the video.