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Ditto! My XTL5000 base radio and my Repeater Station also are not bothered by my other same proximity radios transmitting when receiving. That is not the case with the other same proximity radios receiving and the XTL5000 radios and/or repeater station transmitting.

I'm glad that I am in a well run/organized GMRS Repeater Club. The Club I belong to has training classes and exercises throughout the year and are involved in Community events. The Club is looking into having social functions for the members and their families that has nothing to do with radio. They also hold a couple Formal Nets every week, and two informal Nets for relaying Traffic and Weather Information on the weekdays. Also, the Club will be expanding their services with more involvement with community. I believe the membership is well over 400 and the Club has several Ambassadors to welcome the new members into the Club and help them with any programming and/or technical needs.

Are you transmitting on a repeater channel (467 MHz freq) to a repeater and listening on a 462 MHz freq on the other radio?

No, it's still on the air. Some repeater owners just don't want to advertise their repeaters on this site for some reason. This repeater does link with the SWCRS network with a special input tone for a couple weekly Nets.

I just sent a private message to the seller.

That radio is the A4 48 channel version. The A7 is the 160 Channel version with a front panel display. The 4th digit character in the model number designates the operating band. "K" for the 136-174 VHF, "R" 403-470 MHz UHF R1, "S" 450-520 MHz UHF R2, and "U" 800 MHz.

I heard some FRS traffic once for about a half mile on one of the interstitial 462 MHz channels in Blythe.

There is no squelch-tail or kerchunck sound on the Glendale repeater. There is a squelch-tail on the Shaw Butte repeater but if you don't say anything when you key, you need to keep it keyed for about 3-4 seconds

What area are you trying from and which repeater are yoh trying to access? What radio are you using? If you join the AZ GMRS and/or Southwest Community Repeater (SWCRS) Club(s) you can get plenty of help with your programming needs and have access to a few more repeaters that are not available to non-members. Both repeater clubs have a lot of expert resources.

They're great radios. I still have two A7 versions and three A4 versions and I still use them to this day in addition to my XTS and Astro Saber series radios.

I wish the FCC would mandate that GMRS operate on narrowband for both the main 462 and 467 channels and the interstitial 462 channel to minimize any potential co-channel use contention problems. The interstitial 462 channels would be perfect for simplex operation.

You can relax and take a pill because there is no test. The tests are only for those "HAM People".

Check out eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/322241896718?hash=item4b071d210e:g:gZQAAOSwgZ1XwZi3&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8JsFfRo6dm0AXwcGP4FZEv3cZs6njlbISV79wXWJh%2B4YtbqC%2FSK%2Ffqofn%2FNrKCO%2FDoK8%2FHXj4ezPT1x6eLDoN6lZn6NJaSC0HzNJ4haIMz44GfkhBSAbltGM%2FJqYJRH%2BvMkDWPAXdz%2FZM%2Ftt52UIJV%2FGYGfA2syfWJvE%2Fb8TbMiNd%2BlptMlQYxhhJcTk%2BfFeQCBrZGmTPwBvw9UgFhvUSfR02y2mla9gUyMzhnbxuROErap%2BoSWRkEzZINqDk2BKo88XXWMNq0rwvjTxxlEVeCZq82NYwhFLuXQLO%2FmLrlqAiPuIKe40NbRYP8VgEn1jig%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8DH76zXYg I bought some of these. They work pretty good and are a carbon copy of a Motorola antenna, they just don't say Motorola on them.

That could be "BOLD"

Isn't "Times New Roman" a font style? You probably trying to say "Times Microwave" for the real LMR400. Not an expert, just lowly ol' internet user.

I bought my brand new, still in the box, Vertex-Standard EVX-R70-G repeater, not including duplexer, for $700.00. I bought an EMR Corp. Duplexer for a tad less than $500 and I am using a Laird FG4605 Base Station Antenna with the tip at approx 30 feet AGL with a LMR400 coax approx. 37 feet in length, sometime earlier this year.

I just checked the current status and it shows the Repeater on the air and is an open access repeater. What tone are you using?

Ok, I've seen this gadget discussed before.

You mean like a remote base station transmiting/receiving on the same freq? If so, how are you going to control the station?

According to my manual, it appears that I should check the cable loss with no resistance/termination at the cable end. I think I'm getting it.

Thanks guys. I appreciate the opportunity you giving me in trying to learn this side of the subject. In measuring the cable loss, is the measurement done open cable end or something terminating the cable end (Closed end)?

Of course, the best amount of coax cable loss is zero but what would be the acceptable amount of loss in a mobile environment (17 feet) cable run and in a base station cable run (37 feet), if there is a difference in each run, in dBs, operating on freqs in the UHF range 450-470 MHz? Any help would be appreciated.

What model Laird antenna did you use to get those high readings?

In the Astro 25 series mobiles, such as the XTL5000 remote mounts, each control head has their own speaker connection thus, each control head individually controls their respective speaker.

As Steve said, no but, it is always good to check the VSWRs on a new setup just to make sure you're not reflecting a lot of power back into the radio by having a bad connector of a defective coax cable. It does happen and a lot of reflected power will affect the power output and you will have a poor performing antenna system regardless if the antenna is properly tuned.