Yes, I use it at my work, I have my own business and travel to a lot of properties where the maintenance guys use radios because the cell phones get poor reception if any inside the buildings and up on the roof tops. This way I can communicate with them much quicker. I bought the radio and software and programmed myself. So far all I have in here are just the frequencies for two of the properties and the GMRS channels. They let me look at their radios in CPS so I could copy the settings to make mine work.
I can communicate with them just fine but no one ever answers me on GMRS so I just figured I was out of range but maybe I have accidentally encrypted GMRS when I copied the settings for the properties.
Obviously, I have a lot of learning to do.
I will turn that basic encryption off and see if it changes anything.
I did not realize this was going to be so difficult when I bought the radio.
I spent a lot of money on this but it was worth it for the time it saves on the job.