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elevate36

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  1. Yes that helps a ton, thank you for all of the information, very informative. It seems I'm not able to hit any repeaters except the one with hardly any signal. Interestingly enough, the UV-9G is only able to hit it sometimes with a Nagoya 771G antenna and seemingly never with the GM-15's antenna, where the GM-15 stock antenna on the actual GM-15 radio is able to hit it consistently. I think I'll return the UV-9G and maybe keep the Nagoya antenna. Thanks again for the help.
  2. Got it, thanks again. I just watched a video on the difference between GMRS and Repeater channels which helps make sense of how the tone filters work. Another question related to this, and maybe a bit too technical, but I understand that repeater channels have two frequencies, one for receive, one for transmit. When you choose a repeater channel, you are transmitting to their receiving channel. It then repeats the signal and transmits it on a different frequency with a 5 mhz offset that your radio is ready to hear. Why is it that you don't hear your own voice played back when you speak into a repeater then? Or am I misunderstanding this somehow
  3. Thanks for the replies. In messing with it further and going outside, I was able to hear the kerchunk with 1 bar of signal on my GM-15 Pro but unable to hear anything with my UV-9G. I think I may have a bad UV-9G as my NOAA and FM tones come in pretty poorly compared to the GM-15 Pro also. I'm glad I'm able to hit the repeater with one radio at least. Maybe getting a better antenna would help. That is an interesting note about leaving the Rx tones off as well, I didn't know that. So can one listen in to any repeater just by connecting to the correct frequency since no tones are needed? Of course transmitting requires the correct tone, just want to make sure I am understanding it correctly.
  4. Another new CT guy here. Curious which repeaters people are able to hit / using around the state
  5. I know this is probably an easy question to search for, but I can't find any that answer this specifically. I just got my GMRS license and am trying to see if I can hit any repeaters near me (in CT). I don't have a ton of hope because CT is full of hills and mountains, although I do see a few on the map that seem to cover really large ranges. I am trying to connect to one near me after I input the Rx and Tx CTCS codes. When I hold the PTT button, it shows full signal strength on the radio, but I am unable to hear any noise/morse code, etc back from the repeater (or anyone talking on it). Does that mean that I am not hitting the receiver? What does the full signal strength in the radio show in this sense?
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