I have several vx-7r with MARS mod, they all work fine on MURS / GMRS frequencies. Jack W4GRJ

On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:22 PM, John W. jl_wilkerson@att.net wrote:

It is neither designed, nor legal to use that radio on said frequencies From: Tom Hayward Sent: 7/23/2014 3:36 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] VX-7R Issues

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban mototom800@gmail.com wrote:

As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve. So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before uploading it.

Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works great.

I just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website. They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.

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