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I have had good luck with my Retevis RA87. According to my SWR meter, it pulls a steady 1.0-1.1 SWR reading & anywhere between 40-45 watts of power with a Larson magnetic mount antenna. It also pulls the same SWR & wattage on a dummy load.

It can be a frustrating thing to not have a clear cause and effect. It certainly could simply be group of failures caused by a bad batch of components.

I haven't had one go bad yet. Only be delivered DOA.

Picked up the KG 1000G Plus to use as my base station to complement the repeater I have at my shop. The repeater makes it fine into the house but sometimes the house has a hard time getting through the trees to the shop repeater. Going from 20 to 50 watts is only a bit more than 3dB, but it seems to work from the repeater to the house. I had already setup the CPS with my channels and only needed to read the radio and write back. The CPS doesn't cover the A,B,C,D buttons so I'll have to do those manually. Like the power button in that you don't need a long press to turn it on. People complain about the screen brightness. Not exactly screaming bright, but it's in a lighted shop and not in a dark vehicle. Since I already have a KG XS20G I'm already pretty familiar in the way it should work. Wife doesn't know yet. I'll probably install it after she goes to bed and she'll see the new radio when she gets up. LOL. Hoping it might get rid of some of the off center DMR that I have in my area. The XS20G lets it right through with the SOC receiver. Hoping the Super Het might limit or eliminate it.

Well that’s the interesting thing Steve, is I’m not exactly sure when these radios went kaput…. They worked fine for a couple weeks after my initial chirp setup. I was happy with them. Then I went in and did a few repeater adjustments…and added a few other frequencies to monitor and then I picked them up one day and noticed they wouldn’t key repeaters. So I put them on my surecom uhf meter and it shows 0.00 watts and now here I am

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Nor I.

I did test this with my Mac desktop and had the same results. I also put in a report to Rich.

If I bring up one of the repeaters in list view with stale/offline enabled and click on the repeater name, it will bring up the repeater info and a map view of the repeater location for what it's worth.

Here’s what Gil @WRUU653 found: “Yeah, there is something glitching, I found if I turn on both stale and offline tabs all the repeaters disappear from the map. But if I click on a repeater that is on the map and then click on that repeaters info, then go back and select stale and offline they show up. A ridiculous work around. I had wondered if this was because of my security settings as I hadn’t seen anyone complain about it. I’m using IOS on an iPad. I’ll go put on some coffee and see if it behaves the same on my Mac desktop. I’ll let you know what I find and I guess we should let Rich know.”

They can be made to appear in the map view by going to the list view first but there’s either a bug or a poor design that causes problems if you start in map view. I’ll dig up the complaint I turned in. Also, Gil I think found a workaround. Here is my complaint to Rich, which matches what you said:

And also there is the fact that dogs are shit producers.

<sarcasm>Not really </sarcasm >

They do - but they don't show up on the MyGMRS map view and you have to know to select stale and/or offline repeaters in the list view.

Sorry, I didn't notice the emoji. It was my Oops, its there. But you're right sarcasm and tone is hard to express in text.

Unless removed they should still appear when old data is selected.

The two largest and OPEN repeaters in my area are not listed on MyGMRS anymore. After one year of the repeater owner not logging into MyGMRS they get delisted from the map. I've talked to both repeater owners and they told me the same thing - they simply got tired of repeater requests, problems or questions. New users are welcome, both changed the MyGMRS listing to open repeater and listed the tone and don't log into the site anymore so the listings are gone.

hiding an 80' tower from your wife.. your are good.. you need to sell lessons..

I cannot help you with your specific issue with your radio. The only advice I can offer is to purchase another set of radios. As if any of us here actually need a reason to buy more radios.

In the rare times that my wife makes a comment about my recent radio purchase, I remind her that my purchase requires pennies a day to enjoy while her dog is a lot more expensive. That usually shuts down the conversation.

Sarcasm is hard to come across in text, but I thought the laughing emoji at the end of my sentence was enough to signify that I wasn't serious with my statement. Maybe the admin team can create a sarcasm specific font to use???

I'm lucky that my wife doesn't complain about the hobby and the gazillion mobile and portable radios I have. She's used to the fact that I spend my extra money on toys like my 13 cars/truck/Jeep/Golf Car including a couple of racecars and high dollar bicycles. Occasionally, she will help me at one of my radio club functions and use a radio. As I gotten older in age, I have reduced my number of wheeled toys, but not the radios and accessories and tools. The only time she bitches is when we go somewhere in the car and I have the radios on and scanning the channels. She prefers to listen to the XM Radio and not the two-way radios.

This; just ignore it.

Thanks! I will dive into your suggestions.

I understand that. Thank you.