<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I have several vx-7r with MARS mod, they all work fine on MURS / GMRS frequencies.</div><div>Jack</div><div>W4GRJ</div><div><br>On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:22 PM, John W. <<a href="mailto:jl_wilkerson@att.net">jl_wilkerson@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><meta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It is neither designed, nor legal to use that radio on said frequencies <br></div></div><hr><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tom Hayward</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7/23/2014 3:36 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discussion of CHIRP</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Re: [chirp_users] VX-7R Issues</span><br><br>On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban <<a href="mailto:mototom800@gmail.com">mototom800@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS<br>> channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve.<br>> So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp<br>> will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before<br>> uploading it.<br>><br>> Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant<br>> noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is<br>> unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works<br>> great.<br><br>I just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website.<br>They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or<br>what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to<br>get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.<br><br>Tom KD7LXL<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br></div><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br></div></body></html>