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The Tower 575 and the Shaw Butte 725 Repeaters are owned by the same person. There is a person that has a hard-on for the repeater owner and has been creating havoc on those two repeaters. Towers 600 is no longer open and now has controlled access by permission.

It is at someone's home. I believe it will be moved some time in the near future. The Club is working with an owner of a former Grain Silo to replace the Mesa 725 location. Also, the Club has been collaborating with the owner of the Valley 625 repeater. For now the owner is willing to link his Valley 625 repeater to the White Tanks Repeater and the network on Tuesdays for the two Nets. The Club is also exploring sites for south of the Valley and the Casa Grande Areas. However, this is a far future plan for now unless something becomes available insofar as a available remote site. The owner temporarily shut down the Shaw Butte Repeater again and I have a feeling that he may restrict the Shaw Butte repeater just as he did with the Towers 575 and only allow a handful of his close and dear friends.

I believe the other three sites may be at non-commercial remote sites

I believe the queen said in the video repeatedly, that you "cannot" use it as a base station because the hand mic looking device is only for programming the repeater unit. That probably means there is no method/means of inputing voice audio directly into the unit. Although, I am not an expert on the matter, I'm just trying to recollect on my 12 hour old memory from watching the video.

I bet you a dollar and a donut it (coverage as in your farz) will be a lot worst.

Ask the Queen.

I had the same problem with trying to use two KG1000G Plus radios as a repeater and had extremely long hang times. I believe most of the problem was the desensing between the two radios. Also, I was getting what appeared to be intermod at various times. Another problem that resulted from the desense was the distance from the repeater. I was only getting 3/4 of a mile in the distance from the repeater. I was able to eliminate the duplexer as a possible cause. I was using an EMR Corp duplexer. I resolved that problem by scrapping the two CCR radios and bought and installed a real repeater station. Those problems went away with the repeater.

Only the White Tanks repeater has backup emergency generator power for 10 days. Apparently, the other three repeaters do not.

Maybe Repeaterbook hasn't updated their tables/data base yet. Your licensed was issued a little over a month ago. Just be patient.

I will ask that question at the next meeting. Hell, why wait, I'll pose that question on the AZ GMRS Forum and see what I get back.

There some repeater owners that have implemented repeater access control by using assigned PT-T ID. Without the proper permission and your assigned PT-T ID, using the MDC1200 signalling feature, you will not be able to access the repeater. If you misuse the repeater system by being a badboy your PT-T ID will be removed from the system will lose your rights to access the repeater system. It is my understanding that there is another owner in the area may be implementing some sort of the same type of control.

My Sun City West 625 Repeater has battery backup.

The license call sign stated starts with "WI". Some time in the late 90s or early 2000s, the FCC stopped issuing a mobile class license that started with a "K" and started issuing GMRS licenses with the "W". I believe the first "W" GMRS license began with "P". I don't think the stated license call sign is a GMRS license call sign.

Chalk it up to another cheap Chinese Radio POS that can't get it right and is off freq. causing problems. Typical Chinese junk. That frequency is definitely not an allocated freq. I'm noticing more and more $18 Chinese junk POS from Amazon being used by people on Jeep runs these days. You can always tell when they key up their Bowwangers. Also, I'm sure that some people don't know how to program their Bowwangers for narrowband channel operation and that is contributing to some of the comm. problems. Well, gotta go load up for another Jeep Trail run for today.

I'm sure the giggley weeds and pucker bushes will have a slight affect on the propagation of the radio signals in the desert.

All three manufacturers have both remote and dash mount units. Obviously, the remote mounts have remote control heads. Do the cheap Chinese radios have, zone/bank programming of channels, monitor feature that will disable/enable receiver decoder, repeater talk around/direct, multiple scan lists, home channel selection, and MDC1200 PT-T ID features.

What feature is that? GMRS is not a radio feature. The non-inferior radios have the capability to communicate on GMRS freqs very well.

Non-inferior radios, such as, Kenwood and/or Motorola, has a ton of more features, than the cheap inferior Chinese radios. Also, the proprietary programming software is a lot easier to use as compared to Chirp. A matter of fact very few of the cheap Chinese radios have their own programming software The non-inferior radios are better supported with accessories and are serviceable and reliable for decades. As in cheap Chinese junk chips, the cheap inferior Chinese radios will just crumble away in very short period of time and can't be depended on when the need arises. As for the bashing, I believe the cheap Chinese radios earned that reputation on their own merit. Do you see anyone bashing the Kenwood, Motorola, or Harris radios?

Well then save up so you can get the bag of the quality whole chips instead a bag full of cheap little itty bitty chip crumbs. You save more in the long run.

If radios are like Potato Chips, you wouldn't want to eat cheap Chinese junk food, so buy a quality radio and enjoy the taste of a real radio.

In case that anyone was wondering what would be the draw with both receivers receiving traffic, add an additional hundredth of an amp for a total draw of .45 amp when both receivers are receiving. FYI - the factory inline buss fuse is 15 amps. So, it is obviously that the manufacturer never intended for this radio ever see a 20 amp draw and if that was the case you'll be replacing a gazillion fuses every time you key up.

I'm kinda curious how would a repeater extend the range between the trailer base station and the hiker?

I hear they may have some unusual habits. Also, I've been told I was too stupid to pass the test. Well, they are right, I am too stupid to pass the test. I owned that because I admitted I flunked the test twice. I just cannot not remember the correct answers to the electrical math and ohms questions on the test. I guess that would make me a bad operator if I had a license and didn't know my ohms. As for being stupid, the only ohms that I am aware that I need to know in this hobby is 50 ohms for acquiring the proper cable, connectors, and antenna, and speaker. Of course, that is all I know for being stupid.

I believe there will be other HAM radio equipment suppliers in the same boat in the very near future. The HAM radio hobby could be in jeopardy of not gaining new hobbyist if they don't make some serious changes in the near future acquiring new people. This will cause suppliers and equipment providers to focus in other areas of interests and follow the path of where people are spending their money, such as GMRS. The HAM hobby should have started yesteryear with those changes but they are too set in their ways and not willing to make the necessary changes to recruit new hobbyist. The times are changing and the way it was is not working today. Until the Hobby eliminates the meaningless test for the technician license, or make a new entry level license class for an Operator restricted to the 2 Meter, 33 & 70 CMs bands, the recruitment of new hobbyist will not be enough to grow and support the hobby again and it's very likely the HAM hobby, suppliers, and equipment providers will no longer exist. It's the HAMs choice, make the changes or let the hobby die. It would be best for the HAM hobby to make the changes for the good of the hobby and let the sad HAMs continue to be sad.

And require them to operate with narrowband beams.