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I did a final tune on it using a dummy load on the antenna and the vna on the low/high ports. Seems to not have detectable desensing now.

Two mobiles, not kg1000s though. I have a controller for up to 8 radios, but Im presently using 3 radios for gmrs. Two makes the repeater pair, and a 3rd as an rf link to another repeater 40 miles away.

50 watts. It's a new duplexer, just having more desensing on the rx than I wanted.. Retuned and did some really touching adjusting on it and got 80,85 attenuation. It's very slightly desensing the rx but I think it'll be OK. Anything <70 just isn't gonna cut it.

My question isn't what your thinking... So I know how to tune one but, for those with repeaters what kind of attenuation are you getting? I put my repeater on the air, and the next day we had a pretty nasty storm. Repeater seemed to recieve but not transmit. Replaced the tx Saturday and thought all was good, but still no tx. Checked duplexer and I'm barely getting 1 watt out. I have another repeater on standby, so I got it's duplexer out, and retuned it. I got it to -65, but a 5watt signal from around 7 miles away is all I can get without the tx blinding the rx. It's a fumei duplexer, same as the original. I just can't get good attenuation. I think I'm gonna need 80 or more. Anyone have any numbers to work with?

I just met up with a group of them over the weekend to discuss a repeater site and some equipment. But while I was there, my repeater sent its morse id, and some random guy recognized it as gmrs. He knew my business radio wasn't a 'gmrs radio' so questions arose. A couple of other hams chimed in with 95.1761. I left them to debate it and read it myself. I wasn't sure so I just left it. Later I got to thinking about it and started digging around what I could find. There are hams, sad hams, seasonal depressive hams, and manic depressive hams. If I don't need to moderate what I say around them then I don't. Just looking for clarification. But I found it (I think) in some cert documents on the fcc site. I'm not stating anything, and I'm not advocating any specific actions. I was simply curious if there was credence to it. And it seems like (unfortunately) the manic depressive ham was correct.

Disregard.. I think the answer is in the details for manufacturing. Not the end user. I believe the radio needs 90/95 certification, not that 90 radios can just already use 95.

Preface: So I really hate carrying more stuff than I need. I have a digital/analog business radio, which I use with encryption. And I also use that same radio for some digital amature stuff on 2m. I've setup a gmrs repeater and I've been listening to it to make sure it's behaving with its diy controller. Talking to some ham people over the weekend, they think you can use a business radio on gmrs, and here's why. Part 95.1761(c) says: "No GMRS transmitter will be certified for use in the GMRS if it is equipped with a frequency capability not listed in § 95.1763" Ok so my business radio is disqualified there, but, (and here is the confusing portion) it goes on to say this: "unless such transmitter is also certified for use in another radio service for which the frequency is authorized and for which certification is also required." It sounds as though a business radio could be used on amature, and since part 90 also requires certification, you could also setup a part 90 radio to operate within gmrs confines (output and bandwidth)and use that as well. One radio, cover all 3 bases? Is this how the Motorola radios are getting by with repurposing as GMRS repeaters? Or maybe there's just a flaw in the understanding here.

Oh this getting comical. They wrote back and said location was fixed, but now you can't pick a state... I'll just give them a couple weeks to get the kinks out.

Well the call sign entry got fixed, now there is an error for 'Location'. So maybe later this week it'll be working.

My gmrs license was issued same day as others and they were able to add them. I suspect they have a bug in the web site. Maybe they will get it corrected this week.

I tried. Not sure where it goes. Still no luck today. Probably just won't worry about it at this point.

Oh No.. Not a prob here. just repeater book...

well on the bright side, I could add it to myGMRS no problem. And it would storm the day I activate it.....

No I thought I was, and just in case I went to the fcc site, copied the call sign, pasted in the browser. It just keeps on saying its invalid. I had to have a call sign to create the repeater book account, which seemed to be fine. Im a little stumped

Keep getting "Invalid call sign pattern. Please return and enter a valid GMRS pattern into the Owner field." When trying to add my repeater to repeaterbook. There's never been an 'owner' field so I assume its wanting the repeater call sign. But I continue to get that error over and over. Anyone have a thought on what I've gotten wrong here? Im using the website, not the app.

Something to also keep in mind is that some of the ccr brands are not super consistent. I've got quite a few ccr's and I've put them on the analyzer. 75% of them are 'clean enough'. Of the 25% that are kinda dirty, they might pass, some def wouldn't. So even if you find a vid claiming radio X is dirty, that doesn't mean yours would be. If its a sad ham doing the review I ignore it. I don't even get on 2m anymore because all they do is piss and moan about ccr's. It's not the 8th grade anymore guys.. Fwiw, I have yet to find a mobile (even a ccr mobile) that won't pass. I don't have as many mobiles as I do HTs (mostly btech or tyt radios) but they have all been clean.

I've got several of them. Absolutely love it. probably one of my favorite radios. Transmit is pretty clean in the 2m 70cm bands. Side band, fm, am, 18-600mhz, digital modes, mesh network, its pretty fun...

Are you transmitting and receiving on the same antennas? I assume you connected the yagi and tested, then connected the omni and tested. You should get considerably more distance from the yagi in most cases. I can't really recommend a commercial version because I build mine. The yagi doesnt look to be tuneable, and at $100, ide say that's not cheap either. what coax are you running this on? You may have said before but I don't recall now.

I was testing out a couple radios last night, seemed all good. This morning took off down to the river to do some pretty extreme terrain testing over 6 miles. One radio is a uv17r, and made it back to the cabin repeater fine. The other radio (uv9r) wouldn't. So I figured it's a ccr and that's that. Started to rain so I headed back. Just noticed on the 9r that the TXP is set to WIDE for every channel I programmed. Cleared the radio, reprogrammed, same thing. Did a reset on the radio, and reprogrammed. Now its all good, and transmits just as well as the other radios. Seems like a firmware bug. Anyone else come across this?

If you can tune the yagi, it might help a little to tune when it's on the mast, but it's not going to cause death an destruction if you don't. I generally side mount my yagis 16-24" away. But I also run them in some kind of pairing to keep my mast in balance.

Yea.. that's what it was a uv82. And no that by its self didn't unlock it.

I can't remember which btech radio this applied too but might try it. I sold the radio some time back. Also btech might help you out. Hold menu while powering on radio. Enter 100.1201 for frequency. Radio responds with 136-174 on display. Enter 111.1111. Radio responds with 400-512.

I put up a repeater because there are no gmrs repeaters in my area. Nearest is 80 miles south of me. I use it, neighbors use it, it's handy. If I'm within 20 miles of home and I call on my mobile I know for certain I will be heard. The only advantage you might find from a repeater over a base, is your wife could drive 15 miles south, and you 15 miles north. You are 30 miles apart, but only 15 miles from the repeater. You could still communicate at 30 miles. If you only want to communicate back to your house, then just a base with a decent antenna would do.

Ide say you're good to go. You may get some inference if using both antennas and listening on one, while transmitting on the other. Other than that, 4feet of vertical separation should be fine. My yagis are mounted slightly to the side about 12" from the mast, but that was to keep the upper antenna coax from interfering with the yagis when it came down the mast.

Unless your roger beep is the dtmf tones to 'mary had a littte lamb', its not likely going to cause problems. As a radio user (ham, gmrs, frs, muuuuuuuurs, cb), I don't like the actual tones of the boofwang radio roger beep, but I do prefer a roger beep when talking to someone, especially on simplex. On weak signals if I don't hear a beep I assume they dropped out and will come right back. If I hear the beep, I know they released the ptt. Otherwise, you just talk over them, which happens frequently on 2m simplex or repeaters. Sad hams just don't like the roger beep.