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Imagine I will. Let’s say you have a home and down the hill from this home you have a shop. You and the wife would like to have the ability to call each other on the radio however the shop is a big metal faraday cage of a building and your HT don’t make it. Also she prefers to just have coms with you and isn’t really into additional chatter. You set up external yagi antennas between the two buildings to remedy the metal building issue and point them to each other. Now you set up two mobile radios, one at the shop and one at the house and set them for 15 watts or less on output and program them for simplex on one of the 467 MHz main channels which you are allowed to do as a fixed station. Set some tones if you like, just make sure you aren’t setting them for a local repeater input tone. You now have yourself a pair of fixed stations with less chance of outside interference where you two can communicate. “Hey you better come up to the house and clean up. Your brother and sister-in-law are gonna be here for dinner in an hour. Over”

Not exactly sure it'll help. I'm in a very noisy area. Lot of DMR chirping in. And the high gain antenna isn't helping. The KG1000G+ isn't helping out with knocking down the noise with it's better selectivity as I had hoped. The radio might end up in my truck and put the XS20G back. I'll have to see how the wife feels about it since it's primarily in her work space all day. Even with the tones on the DMR chirps through for a burst here and there and she's not happy about it. With the old radio it happened, but it's happening more with the 1000. Time will tell. Plus I need to hunt down that DMR source and see what the heck it is and if they are above board or not.

A man that knows his stuff! That radio is going to sing with the new Heliax! Congrats on the new radio.

Just thrown on a fold down secretary desk. No real organization to it. Just made it fit. The new power supply and radio are bigger than the old so it's more cramped. The radio is just on it's mobile mount laying on the table, it has the angle adapter on the display as it comes from the factory.

@SteveShannon Ah, beans. That's what I figured but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something simple. Thanks for your help! @Socalgmrs Interesting, I'll have to read up on that. What's not accurate about the SWR on a handheld and would they typically read high or low on an HT? I got the meter just make sure I didn't have anything Obviously Wrong (like low/no wattage or abnormally high SWR) even if it wasn't particularly accurate. Regarding the repeater, I'm about 25 miles out from it. Listening with a second radio, the repeater acts like like someone kerchunked it (I think that's the term). I'm not sure I have clear line of sight to the tower so I figured there's just too many obstructions for a 5W handheld to deal with. A little disappointing but I'm not too concerned. Gives me an excuse to build a base station sometime down the road.

I know. The XS20G had no fan, and is sealed IP66. Ya, it's 20 watts, I got a good one that does 26 watts. Never had an overheating issue and at times I blab.

i would give the AnyTone AT-D578UVIIIPRO a look at.. I gave my grandson one of these as a gift, its a great radio.. And they are unlock able

An h3 with issues? Really? So you seam to have 2 things going on. 1 Not hitting the repeater with any of the radios. If your programming is correct the only other thing would be distance/line of sight. 2nd measuring swr on an ht is not accurate at all. But it should atleast do something similar to the others. Bad radio? Probably. id send them all back asap and get some better radios. Note, better, not more expensive.

Based on GrouserPad’s experience that’s not uncommon, unfortunately. There’s no reason to doubt your (or his) experience. TD H3s apparently arrive dead or die shortly after. Don’t waste time double checking yourself. Send it back, preferably for a different radio. You’re fine starting another thread but you would have been okay piggybacking on GrouserPad’s thread. Welcome to the forum!

i love the stand,, now thats unique

There’s no way for it to get too hot except while transmitting. It’s the final output transistors that require cooling.

Hello! I'm new to mobile radios so I want to make sure I'm not doing something wrong before I send my radio in. I've got four TIDRadio H3s, two GMRS units and two ham units that were unlocked and changed to GMRS mode. I've been trying to hit a local repeater unsuccessfully so I picked up a Surecom SW33 to make sure my radios/antennas are actually working correctly. Three of the four are showing a VSWR around 1.4 and an output wattage around 5W with the same antenna so I think I'm just too far out from the repeater to hit it. The problem is the fourth radio (one of the ham units) doesn't show anything on the SW33 when transmitting. Other radios can hear it transmit short range - I've tested it on simplex channels across the house and through some walls but nothing long distance - but the SW33 is acting like it's not doing anything. (Edit: Should note I also tried it with the 50 ohm dummy load that came with the meter and still got no output reading.) Are there other things I can check or change in my test setup or was this radio DOA and needs to be replaced? (Side question: regarding forum etiquette, should I have piggybacked off GrouserPad's similar thread for this or was starting a new thread appropriate?)

Yes. No matter the setting the fan goes on when the PTT button is pressed and stays on until the machine thinks it's cool enough. If it was on TX then it would only come on when the PTT button is pressed but not come on when the machine is hot. Probably not a good idea. I would assume it has an over ride or just won't transmit when too hot.

The definition of an open repeater is one that has been deemed so by the owner. GMRS repeaters are privately owned. You don’t have the right to list them, only the owner does. Furthermore a repeater having a matching output does not make it open, in fact programming the output (receive) isn’t even need to operate a repeater or hear it.

Have you tried VHT + TX? Doesn’t it only turn on the fan while you are transmitting AND the temperature is too hot?

I need to get back to studying for AE. Same as last years study course, life got busy and I'm behind again.

I did.

I'm hoping that you're not really serious??

I don't know, I will look further into this. Your situation seems unique, with no prior call sign shown before your upgrade. Did you go from unlicensed to AE in one session?

Good morning, same thing happened to me. Granted I literally just upgraded, so I'll give it a bit to trickle through the wickets.

Or unless you request a new sequentially assigned callsign.

My outdoor antenna for the repeater station and a third antenna in the shop window. The attic antenna depicted above post and the window antenna are just used to access repeaters in my area. I have two base station setups and one repeater station.

My brother didn't request a new call sign either. The FCC will not change it unless you request a vanity call sign.

So did mine. Because I didn't request a new callsign.

I have multiple repeaters. None are listed. I dont need or want them listed. Why should others list my repeater ?