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I did separate the radios maybe about 5 feet between them at the most. My friend had his Maxons sitting on top of each other for the Test Comparison and they appeared to be working fine. The KG1000G Plus RF output power was about 37 watts into the duplexer and about high 20s to low 30s coming out of the duplexer, which varied at times. I was drawing between 10+ amps to about 12 amps with 14.1 volts when the two radios were in the repeat mode. In my opinion I think the KG1000G Plus radios are a poor repeater setup.

Yes, the duplexer was tuned to the operating frequency pair. All the cables were checked and double shield low loss RG-8X and the cable run between the antenna and duplexer is LMR400.

I'm sure there are several of you that have interconnected two KG1000G Plus radio together to make it into a repeater. I'm curious what where your results after you did this? Did you experience any desense whereas, you were only able to communicate no more than 3/4 of mile away with a portable radio? At first, I was ready to blame the duplexer. I asked a Club member for some help and he brought his Maxon radios over and there was a significant performance improvement in the distance using the same duplexer and the same newly made cables. So, based on our testing you would think that the problem was not with the duplexer but, with the radios. I even swap the transmit and receive functions between the two radios and the problem still existed. Has anyone else experience similar results with the KG1000G Plus radios being used as a repeater? I would like to hear from anyone that have had similar problems with their KG1000G Plus repeating radios.

I don't believe the series of letters used in the callsign is inclusive to Part 95 stations only.

The antenna is glued on and cannot be removed. The antenna must be permanently affixed per FCC type acceptance.

There is a 550 repeater near the west end of Santa Anna Mtn using 141.3 Hz in/out.

And you won't see the option to turn that feature on or off in the programming software. You will see what ID is being transmitted in the software and have the ability to change the ID.

Go into the DTMF-ID in the radio menu and select off.

They're missing some of the additional CTCSS tones. Per Midland, they have no plans if going beyond the standard codes and tones.

I picked this up on eBay and I'm about $300 into buying the Bird, The case, and an extra slug from Martin RF Supply.

WHAT! You mean they don't have tube testers at the Drug Stores like at Thrifty's? What in the hell is this world coming too!. I guess I'm going to be out of luck if I need to test or need a tube in the future for my radio.

Most of the Truck drivers do not speak english these days and these drivers that are non-english speaking or english as a secondary language more than likely are not aware that CB Radios are/were used by Truckers. In your travels look for the antenna(e) on the trucks and you will notice that a majority of the Trucks no longer have a CB or any other antenna hanging on the Truck. Very few Trucks run with a CB these days.

In California, there are government surplus property laws and all local (City and County) and State Agencies must sell their surplus property through public sales, pursuant to the Government Code. Some property must be auctioned and some you can buy on the spot. In California, all State Agencies must transfer their surplus property to the Department of General Services (DGS) Property and Reutilization Division and they sell/auction the state's surplus property. Depending on the property item, there is a replacement schedule the State Agencies must follow in order to get the funding for replacing specific equipment. The CHP would budget for the replacement of radios every 10 years but, I'm not sure if that is the case today. 17 years ago, that was the case.

I wish I could help you but, I haven't dived into the XPR series yet. Good luck with your project.

Which model Motorola radios you are having trouble with? I might be able to help. I have the factory software and cables for several model radios. I have a Motorola Master Services Software License Agreement to buy, possess, and use the programming software.

Would this be considered as a "Race War" or a "Religion War"?

I remember back in the day 675 was only for emergencies as stated as a condition on the license. Also, the GMRS licenses were issued with mobile call signs, mine was KG something (three letters and four numbers). Somewhere during one of the periods of the renewal processes mine was changed to my current license WQJT335. I also remember back in the mid 70s that Orange County React was very active on CB channel 9 and used 675 as an intercomm link amongst all the React Monitors. I can't remember the guy's name now that had a scanner and cb store on Euclid in Anaheim he owned one of the first mountain top GMRS repeaters on Santiago. I believe it was the 675 repeater that React used. I think his name was Bob Neal. He was very instrumental in promoting radio communications as a hobby. If it wasn't for him I may not have gotten knee deep into this hobby with the scanners, CB radios, and now GMRS. I never got the HAM bug for some reason and today I still don't and probably never will. I bought a ton of scanner crystals from him for my Regency ACT 10 channel scanner before Radio Shack came out with the synthesized scanner or was it Bearcat that had the first synthesized scanner? I've had my GMRS license since the mid 90s and dabbled in mostly simplex use. Before I moved from Northen California 4 years ago, a friend owned a repeater on a mountain top and gave me permission to use it. I never really did use it although, I did programmed the channel in my company car and maybe used it a couple of times. It wasn't until I moved to Arizona, I noticed that GMRS was very active and most of the repeaters were either restricted or closed systems for Club members. So, I decided that I better join so I can get in on using the repeaters and the fun. I'm glad that I did. Now, I have several mobiles, a bunch of portables, and now a repeater station. I guess, I am infested with the GMRS bug and I hope there is no cure for it.

I have the worksheets in Excel ready to email.

Eventually, I will still need the model number of the radios. The model numbers are on the backside of the radio chassis and starts with a "H". The HT1000 only has one zone of 16 channels. The A/B/C switch on top of the radio is only for selecting radio features. I'll probably get the worksheets done tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan., 31.

I always liked the hum of 192.8 Hz PL tone.

I have the Wouxun KG1000G Plus. I really like the radio. It has a lot of features and I can store up to 999 custom channels, I like the two receiver feature and the option to switch back and forth to transmit. The software is easy to use and straight forward. I wish the radio had a feature to have zones/banks of channels, and talkaround. I had a Midland MXT400 but, you can't program it with the software using a Windows 11 PC. I got rid of it because you only get 8 channels for custom programming. I also have a Midland MXT500 and it has the same limited number of custom channels. Although, you do get 8 additional channels with fixed repeater channels which you can change the encode/decode tones. I only use this radio when my wife and I are traveling with two cars. I put this radio in her car.

Scans the PL Tohes and DPL Codes

I will put together some programming worksheets for you to complete and I will email them to you. I doubt that the Motorola or other shops are willing or have the ability to program the codeplugs for these radios for you. You may want to make some calls to see if anyone can and/or willing, I can email the codeplug file(s) to you for to take to the shop. Is there any chance you can provide me with the model numbers of the radio(s) you want to program to see if I have the same model and feature set so I can build the codeplug file(s) without your radios at first?. The MT2000 radio comes in two versions, 48 channels or 160 channels. The 48 channel radio has a top six digit display and is referred as the A4 version and the 160 channel radio has a front face display with a full keypad and has a twelve digit display and is referred to as the A7 version. The display can be configured with either or both the Zone and Channel names with adjustable number of digits not to exceed a total of twelve. I.E., if you elect to have the Zone name with four digits than you can only have the channel name with eight digits. If you elect to have the top rotary knob as the channel selector than you will be limited to 16 channels per Zone. You can have as many zones as you want but, you can't exceed a total of 160 programmed radio positions. You will have the ability to select your zones through the keypad and/or the first three zones with the top A/B/C with if you elect to have that feature switch enabled. Food for thought I'll try to express your programming features options in the worksheets.

When I was looking into buying mobile radios I came across both Part 90 and Part 95 mobile radios that would not accommodate wide band because they were manufactured after the refarming mandate. I believe Kenwood and Midland to name a couple were the ones that would not do wideband. I would need to retrace my steps on what I did several months ago to completely answer your question.

I support narrowband and some of the newer radios that people are using on GMRS will not support or operate on wideband.