THE ULTIMATE 'HOW TO GUIDE' FOR YOUR GME UHF

Hey, guys. Craig from Accelerate Auto Electrics and off Grid touring here today and today we're actually in a bit of an informative instructional video on how to use the GME-XRS radios and all their features. We've spoken about them heaps and all of the other videos and the question we get out a lot is how do you program all the se features in? Well, today we are going to show you exactly how to do that. First thing you're going to want to do is obviously turn the UHF on, plug it in, turn it on.

So it's on. And that's all you have to do with this one. From here on your phone, you're going to want to download this XRS Connect app. It's a free app just on the App store. Have an Apple Google Play Store. If you have an android, this will open up yours. Probably show a much wider map of Australia. We've just obviously zoomed right into where we are. Some of the main features of this that we're going to be running through. As I run through all the nitty gritty super technical stuff because i

t put you to sleep, but we are going to walk you through how to program all the really useful stuff that makes your life a bit nicer with these, So some of these things include a like an active playback feature so that if you missed the transmissions that someone's made, you can hit a button and it'll reply back to you after a few minutes back and another really handy feature is the active mute. So what that does if you've got your radio and you make a phone call or someone calls your phone, i

t'll actually mute the handset. Let the microphone on this or reduce the volume, whichever you prefer, so that you can always make your phone call without being interrupted. And the other really handy thing that we're going to run through as well is to program the buttons on how you want them to work. So that got a few different buttons you can program to do different things when you press or hold them or change the squelch and the likes of. So let's get in, get started, and we will show you how

it's done. So once you download the app, you open it up. Like I said before, you'll be met with a screen, which are just a general overview of a map and this heading here. So what you're going to want to do, first of all, we're on to location services stuff later. For now, we'll just go through these settings. So what you don't want to do is hit these three bars at the top here if they open and then from here these are all your settings and into the radio. So the first thing you're going to wan

t to do is go into radios. So this will be the screen you actually met with when you go into radios, which you'll need to do to log in. So hit radios and then you'll have all the nearby XRS radio is within Bluetooth range of the phone. So the one that we want to connect to is this top one to a before. And it doesn't say new anyone that you haven't connected to previously are down here. So obviously I don't want that one. I want to go on to this one. So log into here before we can change any sett

ings or alter anything we need to do. Essentially a read from the radio. So that tells the phone what settings are already in the handpiece. So if we go read radio at the top here, fabulous. And just like that, we can now modify the settings and all the features within the radio. First things first, probably you going to want to do. So it's easy for you to find your audio. Next time is change the name so we can just rename the XRS radio here. So rename or whatever you please just go for the ones

in the 300 series. Let's just call it 300 series. Makes it nice and easy. And then so once you read the radio, you can now adjust the settings. So from here we will go into the settings button, this big cog. Awesome. And then from here we have everything. So what we're going to go through first is the radio settings. So just click into here and then you have all the different, I guess, sub sections of things we can program. The first thing and probably the most interesting thing and I will do i

t first is these XRS features. So we're going to hit Scroll all the way down to the Bottom XRS features. Here we go here. So top one location share enabling location, share what this does or run through more detail in a bit is if you're within, I guess, a receiving distance or transmitting distance of another user with an XRS and they've set theirs up as well. Election drop a pin on a map every time they make a transmission. So if you're for driving a bunch of modes and you have that one made th

at always goes right and one does often, you know what I'm talking about. If they have an XRS and have this turned on, you can find them. So you can go back and track them down and say, Why their landcruiser has broken down. So what we'll do here, let's turn on so we can show you that that's all pretty much standard. Just saying essentially that it's running through GPS, which is what we want, the features that we actually want to look at. And probably my personal favorite feature is this voice

playback feature. So what we'll do now is we go ahead and turn that on. And like I said before, that allows the radio to hold that short term memory. But if someone makes that transmission so we go ahead in a bit and I'll show you that feature working here. We go from here as well. One of the other XRS features is, of course, the active mute, which is also one on my favorite settings in these things. So active, like I said before, when you make a phone call or receive a phone call through your p

hone because it has Bluetooth to it, it will mute this. Now you can actually change it, whether it just lowers the volume or whether it actually fully mutes it. Yeah, entirely up to whatever you prefer. For this one, just go. 75% voice playback turned on and active mute to to full mute so that it completely mute. I'll make a phone call to the phone If someone tries to talk to us through here till now, then that's all set. What we will do is go back here and we'll program the buttons. So once you

've got the voice playback enabled, that's good because it's enabled, but you don't watch. There's nothing programed on the button to trigger it. So what you want to do then is go into program mode buttons and then you've got all of these different buttons on here that you can program to do different things. So the way I normally set mine up is so that top button press, which is this little button here that controls the voice playback, the top buttonhole can be whatever you want, but I'm only pr

ogram it so that does your auto scan, if that makes sense. If you want to and XRS button press, which is this one here you can program you can make it change to end zone design and you can make it control your square settings or whatever you want. And same deal long press hold in program that. So but for today's episode or purpose we're going to just change this one so top button press we're going to make that under our voice playback top button hold We will make it do the squelch level XRS butt

on. We can just make it go, let's put it as display dim, so if you want to dim your display It's night time, it's too bright. You can make it dim down and then XRS button hold. We can just make that Make that change zones. That'll be easier. cool. So from there, we can go back and that's that. So those are a few of our little settings on here. You can change as well, mainly being auto power down. So if there's a if you do have like your radio set on a constant power source rather than ignition,

like most people you can program in how long you want to power down and turn that on and you can make a time out after being on for X amount of time if you wish. And then or you have a little niggly settings, little user interface settings. So your brightness, you don't like being too bright or you want a brighter you beep volume. I think everyone I know hates the beeping on these so you can crank it down to two or off if you want to. Display options, So up on this little top quality, you can ac

tually program it to go from like a signal made up to battery voltage if you want to doesn't really make any difference. It's just all customizable settings. Speaker So if you have the XRS 370 like this one, you can actually select a microphone only Speaker or the speaker in the chassis itself, radio operation, all pretty basic stuff. So I do like to change is a priority channel. So the moment this is set to channel one, typically I'll set this to Channel 40 because I see Channel 40, the the mai

n channel which is the road channel I guess 18 or 40. So this allows you to essentially just hit this priority button on the microphone and that will take you straight to that channel to the right of what channel on your own or if you're in a scan or whatever, either party button is going to jump straight to that channel. So squelch level is adjustable through here, but you can also adjust it through here. Now, we've changed the settings that just adjust essentially the static. So it just in a w

ay, I guess almost cuts back range so that you're not receiving those further away. Poor quality signals. So in the middle. Three or four is normally a good place to sort of have it, but you can play around as you like. Another thing you can program in these is all of your scan settings. So these are highly programable. Like I said, 9% of the features are probably never going to use, but the scanning is one of them. So you can click into scanning what you can do. So let's just say you only want

to flick between, say, the normal road channels and the emergency channels. So like your 5, 35,18 is the other Caravan channel on Channel 40, which is the main road one you can actually program in. So none of the other channels, all the other random channels cycle through, and they're the only ones with flicks between. So you're not getting joe blow working on a fence out west somewhere that's just telling, my to drop the roll of wire off or something stupid and irrelevant. You just getting the

channels you want through the scan settings. So I'll run through down the second. Everything on here is pretty much just programing the main scanning channels. If you want to actually change the channel and have a scan, you go into your CB channels and you can see here you have all the channels from CB one through to CB 80, so that all your 80 channels. And so essentially what you can do there is and go on only want to view the ones that are on scan Channel 8 which is the main scan channel you p

rogram, you can actually individually channel them off all the ones you don't want to have come up on your main scan. Now for the controversial part of the of the video, what we can do as well with these is in your zones you can program in ahead of a scan only channels that make sense or save on the channels. So a lot of company is corporations emergency services. Those type of guys have their own their own radio frequencies I operate on. And what you can do is actually program them into your ra

dio. Obviously legality around this differs and obviously if you're invading on someone's privacy, then it's probably not a good thing to be doing. But I'll show you how you can do that in case you need to. Now, we'll stress you can't transmit on these channels, so you can't interfere with someone on the K-Mart internal radio channel and tell them to dump a pallet off into your ute because that's not going to happen. You can only listen in. You can't receive. How to do that is go into your zone

so you can customizable design. So zones are essentially, I guess, areas so you can program in. Let's just say you work in one area so your program and I have the receiver only channels for one area and then you go to another area out west and go got different radio channels again, program into zones. So that's what the zones are. Zone one, nothing's programed yet. You can rename the zones to to the towns or whatever if you want and then you have that here. So what we can do is go and we'll add

one on the top, receive only channels. You can either create your own channel if you really have the frequency or you can import one from GME's list of known Australian channels. So you know, import here already said this. So you always want to come up with channels standard, but what you'll have to do is click on little location button punch in where you are. We're obviously Maroochydore, Queensland, Maroochydore distance than 5K’s you make a 20K’s, 100K's, whatever, and then I shall bring back

down to 10K’s. So we're not getting a million things. You go search for channels that will bring it up there. So what we have here, what we can actually program into that zone is all of these. So we've got everything from Aldi to baby bunting to Coles and all the things. And so obviously if you're not supposed to be in there, guys don't get in there, don't listen on stuff, you're not supposed to be. You'll find a lot of these channels are probably blank anyway, but this is has a full list. A lo

t of your emergency services stuff. So you know fire up not so much police anymore with some fire’s, ambulance, hospitals, cabs. If you want to listen in on the cabbies, council that sort of stuff there. So all those lists of if you want to import all of them, what you can do is just go select all and just go back and then they'll all be there in zone one. So we can just call this one lets say Maroochydore So now we're showing you how to program these in. What we're now going to do is so it's sa

ve for the our configuration on here. We now need to transfer back to the radio. So if we go here back to radio configuration, select one, we would just on which would be this one here and just need to save it, then get the radio's and then need to write it to radio. And I see here it is transferring to radio. So that's now programing, actually uploading all those settings we've just made to the radio from what we've programed on the phone. So we're going to go out and now that all of the progra

ming has been uploaded to the unit, I'm going to show you the ultimate active voice playback feature. So I'll just ask for someone nearby to say something and I'll show you it. Recording Hello? Is anyone there? Hello Craig. Patrol's suck and LandCruiser's are the best. I don't want to hear that again, but for the purposes of this I'll replay it so you can see so now if I hit this top button. Hello, Craig Patrol's suck and LandCruiser's are the best. Now you see, it works and then they can work f

or a couple transmission. So I'll reply back to her and say, I'm sorry, but you know patrols are the best. And then she'll say You're a liar. Then what I can do is I hit this button twice and I actually go back to the first one. She said, You're a liar. Hello Craig, Playback 2 Patrol's suck and LandCruiser's are the best. the best, and then we'll play the last. You're a liar. And there you have it. Active playback. How Good. So now showing you the active of voice playback feature. These are jus

t some of the stuff that we've programmed in, obviously. So what we've done here is obviously the zone we renamed the zone Maroochydore. So you can see that here that it's changed the name of the zone on the screen. And then from here we can go into those recieve only channels that we programed in before and see here. There's a Woolworths underwater world, all these ones that are there, some of the other settings we programmed in was the XRS button short Press to change to the zones. Obviously i

t's on the zone on Maroochydore at the moment. If we want to dim the screen or we program a long press, the responded in the screen, if we hold that in, can see that it's a dim and it's dimmed screen right down, so it's not so in your face at night time. when I tell you back to normal long press that in there so now under is show you through the location services just a real quick overview so you've got a rough idea all of the areas like I said before, we traveled in groups of mates and you miss

or someone has gone walkabout, they've gone missing, you can't find them, but they're still on radio. And when you find them, what you can do, providing they have service and obviously left the phone with them every time they transmit. Got a pin on a map so you can find them. So what I'm going to do now is going to get Claudia in the hilux to talk to us and it'll come up with a handle so you can set your name and your status, I guess, if you like, so you can view all that information. So we'll

get her to talk and you should see a little pin come up on this map, which will show where she is looking good in that Land Cruiser. Craig. allow that. There we go. And it's come up and we can now see a little pin on the map there. Now, that will come up with her username once it's set. They can see here, drop the pin and there it is. And likewise now to if I talk, it will come up on hers. I'll look better in patrol. Claudia. Now I wouldnt. Thanks again for watching, guys. If you still stick in

with us, really appreciate it. I just want to really get across just how good this UHF's are and just how well you can program them to your individual needs. They're an Australian made product, which is really awesome Australian owned company. So I can't stress enough how important it is to support Aussie made where we can obviously, but they really are just a fantastic UHF and you really can make the most out of these. They just they do so much more than just just basic communication and guys,

so get around it. If you have one download the app, get in, start playing, give it a crack, you can't mess it up. If you program settings and then you can't make it work anymore. Just hit the factory reset button and it'll all go back to standard and you can start playing all over again. Once you start using these features, you won't go back. They're just really, really, really handy. But thanks for watching guys. If you have any questions, make sure you drop them in the comment section down bel

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