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I ditto on turning the power down. 20/25 will do as well as 40 in most cases, as the higher the tx power the more chance of drowning your input, even with dupexor (unless you are spending $3,000 on it, and even then I have turned them down to necessary power only. When I worked for M we had a customer that used a 25 watt mobile for 2 way and phone interconnect, and 2 HT600 portables, but her repeater antenna was on a 500 foot tower she owned. We had the repeater all rigged up blowing A/C directly into it, as she liked to use that phone for 20-30 minutes at a time, and it was an R100 repeater! We had it set down to get about 2 watts out the antenna, and it had great coverage, more than she needed. Input path to the repeater will determine the usability in most cases not power out. Too many guys have CB mentality, not what you need.

pfactor here saying hello and checking in for my myGMRS.com maiden voyage. I look forward to learning while interacting. Thanking you in advance for providing this opportunity,

Thank you jmoylan69 for responding. I am ashamed to admit that my handheld unit is a cheap Motorola 1.5w walkie talkie. I can select the channel that is pre-programmed RX 462.5500 and TX 467.5500. And I can also set the code to 141.3 Hz. Both units hear the repeater announcement. Then if I use handheld A to transmit, both units hear the response from the response. But it's just a screech and the beep. Both units hear it. But not the actual voice comm. I hope I'm making sense. Since both device can hear the initial announcement and also trigger that...they are accessing the repeater properly. It's the actual communication following the announcement that is without the voice.

Uhmmm maybe that would make a great call sign in DX...