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It's 12 volts. Take the plug off the dead one and attach it to a 12 volt power supply. It also came with a cigarette plug with the same end, you could use that. Or... Retevis.

He's the only one in most of the videos.

So far the customer service I've had with my Btech RPT50 has been outstanding. Sent them an email yesterday (Sunday) and it was responded to by a person (Katy) in 10 minutes. I didn't expect a response until sometime today and let them know I was impressed with their quick response. So far the repeater has worked well. Initially I HAD to do an update to get DCS tones and they replaced a defective duplexer that seemed to be with most of the original units. Since then they've had an update to activate the microphone which use to be only a keyboard input device and one other bug fix which did not affect me. Maybe a rough start but that's what happens with lots of gen 1 products.

Pretty much all my H3s came with 15" antennas. They were flexible enough to be in the relatively square box. They sproinged to life as soon as they were removed from the box. No chance of kinking. But I have no answer for you about you not receiving the antenna that you thought was included.

For the most part our police let people be unless there were complaints. And according to the scanner there were very few complaints. Didn't hear any EMS calls for fireworks related injuries either, so that always nice. The one day all states should allow it is July 4th. It's definitely a reason to celebrate.

Happy 4th of July WEEKEND!!! Saw my town fireworks display a week ago when they hold the fair. Went to my BILs for the 4th and my sisters for the 5th for outdoor parties. Great weather both days. Did work for 2 hours on the 4th because.. It's just Friday. Let the fireworks fly.

Went to the website and found this. And then found this about the HDG antenna So much for the informational insert inside the box

Btech RPT50

Good chance it's dead, email them and they'll send out a new one for you. QC seems to be nearly non existent with them. Good radios are good and usually stay that way, bad radios usually come in dead and there's no reviving them. I have 2 dead ones that eventually I'll pull apart to see if it's just a bad solder joint or something simple. They do transmit, just not that far so the local oscillator is working.

Workarounds are the industry standard. My dead radios came in dead. Never even saw a charge cycle.

The forum would know you did it.

He was pointing out the channels that he thought were in that range, all of them are 467MHz channels and none of the channels in the radio were 467MHz. His mistake was he looked after the decimal and matched up the 467MHz frequency when there are also 462MHz frequencies with the same decimal frequency. There are no .5 watt channels in the radio.

The guy in the video made a mistake. He confused the 467Mhz channels with the 462Mhz channels with the same frequency past the decimal. As long as the radio is used on the 467Mhz frequencies the 2 watt output is legal. It might not even be capable of accessing those frequencies.

Go to your membership account and change it from there if you worry this is a information grab from a 3rd party trying to steal your information. I changed mine through the pop up and so far nothing nefarious has happened.

16' between ground rods. Putting a coax in a glass jar etc. Lighting is going to do what it wants even with grounding. The grounding is a preventative measure to take care of as good as it can. There is no 100% it's going to follow any cable, it's the least path of resistance but because of the huge voltage potentials it can leave that path. Certainly better to have grounded the crap out of something than nothing at all. But it doesn't mean the lightning is going to go where you want it. I pretty much figure a direct hit is a death strike most of the time for equipment. Near misses is where the grounding really shines.

Lest you forget that a lightning strike starts on average about 20,000 feet in the air and travels to the ground with air as an insulator. Arguing about a couple feet is moot.

Lighting is just like tornadoes. Destroying one while barely touching the one next door. Could have been grounding, or just dumb luck. People struck by lighting can survive or become crispy kritter piles of dust.

That right there should protect the radio. But I know nothing will protect with a direct hit. Dissipating charge should be accomplished with the wire sizes as they are. I'm just thinking about my situation. The main electrical connection to all 4 bays in the building I'm in is at the opposite side of where my antenna is. That's 170' of conductor needed to make the connection from where the cable enters the building to the bond where the electrical box is. 25'+100'+45'. And as to having a ground rod for each leg of the tower why can't the 3 or 4 legs be connected by copper wire and then go to a single ground rod? The ground loop around the tower is doing essentially just that but just increasing the cost substantially. And would that change between a steel tower and an aluminum tower since aluminum conducts better?

So why isn't the tower bonded to the electrical ground through the coax which is attached to the chassy which is grounded through the ground line in the power outlet? No matter how much you ground anything because of the resistance of wire they'll always be at a different potential?

Can't you just go to map and zoom in on your area to see the repeaters that are there?

Depends on where you are. Around here it might not be so bad. In LA it's already worthless without an emergency situation.

Still normal for me on FF and Chrome

Well I'm not putting a 1/4 wave antenna up on an 80' tower. That would look silly. LOL

As long as it doesn't say "shall be". Should and must can be gotten around legally.

Also if you do a ctrl F5 it will clear your browser on that website and reload it. Maybe something wonky happened with some data. Not sure if that's universal, I know it works with Firefox