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thats a great idea to do. thats all we do here with our steel buildings. it works great also.

I know what you're saying. I had to go threw their "vetting" process for my Business Account and then they allowed my MOL Account to view and download the software for all my radio models I have. It is a process I must say, yet it was worth it because I needed the software.

gortex2 that is the ideal location especially for how short the coax run would be. I was going to do that myself but steered away from it because of the amount of work required to get all that equipment up there. Reason number two was because if something should happen with the repeater itself, that's a lot of climbing for something that could be easily checked and/or repaired standing on the ground. We don't have a lot of platform space on top of our tower to begin with and if you needed a crane to get in there for an elevator repair, it was just another item taking up much needed space at that point. But like I said in the beginning, that would be the ideal location for it all- at the top.

I have two repeaters on the grain leg with two separate antennas and no issues. the business repeater is at 461/466 and the GMRS repeater is at 462/467. I will emphasize that each repeater is is isolated from one another in their own steel weatherproof boxes bolted to the tower leg (one above the other). they both have their own power supplies and using LMR400 straight up the leg secured to a wire conduit that goes to the top to power the elevator belt. I made sure that my business antenna got higher in the air then my GMRS antenna. I installed all of my own radio equipment myself and pulled all the coax myself also. the only hard part was when i got to the top platform on the leg and pulled up my bag of tools, i realized i forgot the wrenches i set down on the front seat of my pickup. so after three climbs (of witch two of them could have been avoided all together) I had my stuff installed in about 4 hours!

I have an XPR2500 in my pickup. The majority of my mobile units are Motorola PM400 and MCS2000. My handhelds are CP200 and PR1500. My repeater is a Vertex VXR-7000 with the antenna on top of a 100 foot grain leg. I use my system for LMR and recently reprogrammed to GMRS for dual functionality. I have all the programming software and cables because my nearest Moto dealer is 50 miles away. I do use a Baofeng UV-5R for testing new programming on my own system and when I program other peoples radios. The UV-5R is super handy because of its flexibility on being field programmable without the need of a computer.