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It's a power supply, not an inverter. An inverter takes DC and changes it to AC. Good chance the power output will be a bit lower. Probably won't matter that much though. Unless your normal signal is going through obstacles such as trees.

Go with real life over calculated.

AM is easier to decode when it's all scrambled up from the atmosphere. You can hear the voice even with lots of static. In FM if the signal is garbled the decoding doesn't work well at all.

That's why I drink Hot Cocoa.

(bluetooth) OD Master can't do a firmware update as far as I know. You need to be physically plugged in to do and update using the IAP software. The CPS software easily took off the stun/kill on mine. Not even a little struggle.

Kill and Stun are off in OD Master too. Interesting......

Just looked. Kill and Stun are turned off in the CPS, not sure about the OD Master.

Weird. Turned on the H3 and it was in Stun/Kill mode, no access. Thought I'd have to talk with Luxi again. Turns out if you use the USB port and their CPS you just reprogram the radio and you're all set. I have lots of AM stations in my radio for the airport and the CPS won't program those. But I also use OD Master and it has all those programmed in it so just re-reprogrammed it and it's all back to normal. Took about 1 minute. No idea what set off the kill mode though.

I do tropospheric ducting with GMRS. Just takes the right conditions. And I've never really gotten huge distances. Just impossible connections. Where I am and where I connected has a huge mountain in between that makes it impossible to have any sense of LOS. It's only about 70 miles and it only happens in the summer. And it's only happened once this summer and I'm not sure if it's conditions or from me going from a 7.2dBi to a 9.8dBi gain antenna. There was one night were I was able to connect and talk with several people with my HT and they said it was R9. Very unlikely unless you live in SoCal....

He's our boy.

If you want to ask the FCC a question ask them to make a slew of repeater only channels so they don't interfere with simplex. And make sure they add them up or down, not in between.

So what is the advantage if any, of FM CB over AM CB?

While some of the advantages of linking repeaters is nice the whole concept of using many of the only 8 repeater channels makes it unappealing. And especially when a "club" owns said repeaters on a paid only subscription base. Add a dozen more channels and designate a few of them for linking and that might fix it.

I have a bunch of them. Passed a bunch out to my family. Use them to keep in contact with the wife through my repeater along with the mobile Wouxun. I know most of the ins and outs of the TD-H3

As long as you keep it under 15 watts. Unless they describe fixed to be one specific location to another specific location at all times.

It is more private. You only hear one side of the conversation unless you are in the know.

Heeeyyyyy... You're right. All good then. Can't say anything about me listening to 467

Well she's talking through the repeater. I'm just not hearing it because of the reversed frequencies. It's not like we're having deep discussions that last a long time. Usually it's me telling her I'm going by the house over to this place or that. Maybe if I say "testing" during the conversation it'll clear all that up.

So what about talk around? I use that a lot. On the other side of the river where my repeater doesn't reach my home station does. So I just switch into talk around to communicate with the little lady.

The standard travel tone is 141.3Hz. If there is a repeater in the area that is designed for people traveling through this is the most likely tone it will be on. But as others have said there is no reason that it can't be on any of the other analog tones along with the digital tones. Lots of smaller shorter range repeaters held by people who only use them for their own families or small groups. In CT there seem to be 2 repeaters you can use. One in Glastonbury which is permission based only and the other in Holyoke, Ma that is open for you to use or join their little group. Lots more smaller repeaters with a lot less range if you know where to look.

No young kids on our trip this time. We traveled with the grandkids up to my sons house but we were by ourselves to bring the kids back and it was his birthday so we had the party to go to. My sister and other son came up the next day and we did the party and then stayed another night. Traveled home and I gave my brother a radio. They had to stop for gas and we didn't so lost them relatively quickly, it's hilly on the NY thruway. Kept trying as we hoped they were catching up and eventually we hit a slow down and they got about 1.5 miles away according to the mile markers and we could communicate with a pair of Tidradio H3s. I have a Nagoya 771G antenna and his radio had a Smiley Rubber Duck antenna. I could hear him before he could hear me before we got in range. All in all it was helpful besides just talking. He had a statey come up and warned us, so it was nice having that heads up. And on several occasions when we had slow downs we were able to give them heads up and tell them which lane was the best to be in. At one time they actually got ahead of us for a short bit during one of the slow downs. That didn't last very long. There was also a repeater I had found on the way up. I was just playing around with the repeaters I had programmed in and when I keyed up the Long Island East End repeater I could see the response on the LCD panel but no sound. I removed the Rx tone and I had access. On our way back we used that briefly but had better luck just using my repeater frequencies with me in talk around and him in normal All in all it was a good experience and helpful and I'm glad I gave them the radio.

I have the H3 and it's easy to program it. Are both input and output tones the same? If not reverse them just to make sure you aren't mistaken which one is the repeater input tone. If both are the same then leave the Rx tone at none so you will receive the repeater output no matter what.

Towers not up yet. Still packaged in the shop. And yes, only GMRS. mine mine mine.

Did that include an 80 foot tower and concrete footing? Along with the coax to reach the antenna on top, and the antenna? I paid $1500 for my Btech RPT 50 which included the duplexer and can use any of the 8 pair whenever I feel like it.

By the time I get done with mine it'll be $7K not including my labor.