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First thought is are you using ch 15 or the repeater channel 15? (I believe it's labeled Rept15 on my 805g). The repeater preset will have the transmit offset needed for the repeater, where regular ch 15 transmits and receives on the same frequency (simplex). Second, how are you determining connection to the repeater? Listening for a tone/static/squelch tail back from the repeater or for audio from your other radio? If the latter, it may be desensing when you transmit and not getting the repeated audio. (I see the desense issue was mentioned in the other thread) Third, it is possible the listing is out of date, and the tone/frequency info is wrong or the repeater no longer exists. The listings are mostly dependent on repeater owners maintaining their listing (or removing, if warranted), and unfortunately a few don't bother.

That looks like it's mostly correct. What I didn't see mentioned was a CTCSS tone in the "tone" column. That needs to be included to open the squelch on the repeater. It should be in the form of "141.3" or something like that. Normally, as long as you have permission to use the repeater, you can get the correct tone to use from the repeater owner (if it isn't listed as an open repeater with the tones published).

Alright. Since I am the guy with the tens of thousands of dollars setup and the commercial install I believe I need to interject here. Never did I say that a small repeater system is useless. And there are COMMERCIAL repeaters available that ARE indeed two mobiles in a box with a controller between them. And those work find if that is all you need. My point was if you are going to put up a big commercial grade install that you need to NOT pull the crap of wanting fee's paid for access, as this level of install has a huge footprint that will interfere with other repeaters on the same frequency in that footprint. And the frequency resource is limited for repeaters. I am all for guys that want to put up a repeater on their roof or short TV tower and be able to talk 8 or 10 miles. This sort of thing SHOULD be encouraged. But you still need to be aware of others on the frequency and try to find a quiet pair to set your repeater up on. The other thing that needs to be said here is IF you are going to stick an antenna WAY up in the air and cover a 60 to 80 mile radius, you DO need to have good commercial equipment and not two portables with a back to back cable between them and a cheap duplexer. And here's the reason. If you are the only one that will be using it, and the usage is light, it don't matter. But with a big coverage footprint there is a good chance that it will see a lot of use and portable radios are NOT designed to be run at that duty cycle. The commercial repeaters I use for GMRS are 100% CCS (continuous commercial service) rated. This means they are designed to be transmitting up to 100% of the time, 27/7/365 and live. If you were to try that with the two back to back mobiles the transmitter would not survive the abuse, even with a fan and additional cooling. Now, my repeaters are only logging 30 to 45 minutes of use a day currently... but that number keeps increasing. And that's fine. I built it to run all the time, and offer it for free to all licensed users in the coverage area to use at their leisure. But I would hate to see someone put in inferior gear at some remote site and it die when it was needed. That situation is actually worse in my mind than it not being there at all. Because if it's needed and expected to be operational. And that operational repeater is part of someones emergency plan, then it needs to work as such.

Seems that a lot of people are going to be disappointed when then learn that the 500 and 575 are wideband...

DMR isn’t that complex to setup. It’s just messy. For a single repeater which supports multiple talk groups the easiest solution is use one memory for each full time talk group using the appropriate color code and time slot. The repeater frequencies, and just about everything else, stays the same. I myself have used 6 or more memory slots in a radio for just one repeater due to all the supported talk groups.

Midland has not yet announced an official release date for the 500 or 575 ... I have both.. but I'm not yet allowed to talk about them... ?

Its a waste of hardware and resource to need so many radios to accomplish what is a simple software setting. Make a big warning appear when you turn on 2/70 or other bands. Installing three radios in the truck is just silly and wasteful. The FCC needs to do better on this front.

You can count on all the Wouxon software being crappy, inconsistent, non-professional software. No, behaviors are not consistent between models. Worst software I have used since the 1980s. What you can count on is that you can program your radio faster using the manufacturer’s software than you can manually. Just do not expect an Excel-like editing experience. If you want a professional software experience you will have to pay for it from RT-Systems. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM