Hello All!

I recently got licensed, and bought my first HT station. I ended up going with a TIDRADIO TD-H3 since I saw it can do HAM bands, along with GRMS/FRS. I figured this would be a good HT that has decent features, price point, and size (so I can bring it hiking).

However I am trying to get it to tune to an FRS channel, which should be doable, as it is listed within the bands it supports. However it isn’t letting me transmit. If I hit PTT, nothing happens. If I try to configure the GRMS channels via CHIRP I get an error about the fact that my TX freq is out of range so it hat do disable duplex.

I updated firmware, both with the one downloaded from their site, as well as tid_uMod. Still get the same results on both. This is the one I bought https://www.ebay.com/itm/178349069761 (dont buy from that seller by the way, they’re an amazon drop shipper… Planning on reporting them)

Thanks in advanced!

Edit: I figured it out! The HT was in “HAM” mode. In order to use both Ham frequencies, and GMRS freqs, it has to be in “Normal” mode. To change the mode, turn off the HT, then turn it on whilst pressing PTT and *. This will pop up a screen with a list of 1. HAM 2. GMRS 3. NORMAL. Once selected, you need to press the BT button to confirm, which will wipe all settings, but you’ll be able to use GMRS.