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The Smiley rubber duck antenna is a 5/8 wave.

I have the RT97S and it's easy enough to program them to receive and transmit on different frequencies. But the reverse setup of receiving on low and transmitting on high would need a differently tuned duplexer. I guess you could just reverse the cables on the low and high sides on one of the repeaters.

They are probably using more than one channel. Jump one on 600 jump 2 on 625 and no loop. They state you name your frequency and they program it. You don't have the option to change it.

Maybe one of these might get through your browser protection. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=retevis+daisy+chain+rt97l

467t/462r > 467r/462t > 462r/467t > 467r/462t So one radio needs to be in talk around mode. You would need a 3rd repeater to make it normal.

One of you should put up a large scale repeater if you want one for the area.

https://www.retevis.com/products/25w-portable-rt97l-dual-daisy-chaining-repeater?srsltid=AfmBOoqaP81EZD5UCS-Aq0JdALo4gAj3TX5dGPSacv3UlR2TZa6hv5SA

Maybe, usually they are about $55-60 a pair with the goodies. When I got my first set it was $79 a pair.

I talk through repeaters that are 17 and 21 miles away so any little advantage I can get I'll take. The 3dBi gain of the Nagoya 771G helps a bit and keeps the conversation a bit more clear than the OEM antenna that comes with my H3. The length no longer bothers me since I've been using it for over a year now. Actually seem funny when I put the short Smiley antenna on it. But if you are only using it for HT to HT short range communications the OEM antennas are probably just fine. And that beer you buy with the money you could have put into antenna is gone in a half hour whereas the antenna should last you years. Buying rocks vs ice.

No one asked about that. He just came in here with the advice. And I want all people to follow all regulations so it's a nicer set of airwaves so that's not to dispute. I just found it odd that he decided to blurt that out.

Nanny state alert.

The only one to stay away from is 240625, that had some detrimental effects on the radio. I can't remember what but I remember removing it after I put it in.

Most of my radios have GMRS_250110 This one added the antenna meter that shows strength instead of just showing full bars on all signals. For some reason they removed it.

They seem to be a very popular radio and I'll bet they cranked the assembly line up to 11 to make more radios and many more are failing.

Possible you got 2 duds. If you have nothing showing on the meter likely it's showing correctly. What does the working radio show? If that shows 4-5 watts and the other shows zero then you got a dud x2. I've gotten 2 duds out of 16 radios. And they would transmit about 1000 ft or so before getting static and wouldn't reach any repeaters.