LeoG

So when you shut down your linked repeater did you think about just keeping it up as a standalone?

The positional problems are likely frequency cancellation. When you have multipath signals coming in like Steve said there are areas in the room that those signal paths cross over each other. And depending on how the frequencies match up with each other they either cancel or reinforce the signal strength. Also know as an interference pattern. This is usually in weaker signal areas but can still happen in stronger areas. In my driveway, my normal parking spot I have a repeater that comes in weak and intermittent. If I back the truck up 4 feet the repeater comes in perfect. When I was transmitting to the repeater it made no difference which spot I was in, came in fine. When I'm in my house on my HT inches make a huge difference. And the funny thing is for the most part it doesn't change. We'll have to see as the leaves drop off the trees.

So you know Freddy on the 575..

I think digital on the current frequencies will be a big nuisance to any channel they're on. If they want digital just make sure it has it's own place so the analog channels can still work properly.

Paying to be in a club so you can use the repeater is the same as paying to use the repeater with a technicality.

I think the larger repeaters might need rules so they don't overwhelm the area. Like putting up 8 repeaters on all the frequencies and then charging to use the repeaters. Little guys putting up 5 or 10 watt repeaters for local area coverage for their families don't really impact the areas much.

Mine came from CA too.... I'm on the other side of the country so +5 days.

I told them I would edit my rating after I received the radio. They still sent it. You can always edit it again if you give them 5 stars and something doesn't work out. I like the little H3s. I'm not hard core so the little things don't really bother me.

I have none of these problems with Odmaster programming with bluetooth.

I have a couple of TD-H3s and the OEMs work OK. The Smiley Rubber Duck works better and is much smaller. It's the best of both worlds. The Nagoya 771G beats them all for distance. When I was doing some testing I was able to get 1.3 miles on the Smiley before it quit abruptly and the Nagoya went out to 1.8 miles and still had more but I didn't want to walk more. Most of the time I use the Smiley because it convenient. But if I think distance will be involved or I'm going to be using the repeater at 21 miles away I'll use the Nagoya.

I really haven't noticed after a rain a difference in my reception of the transmission. I thought that was a bit odd. In the winter when the leaves are off I expect better results. But hopefully by then the antenna will be up higher.

You aren't telling me anything I don't know already My antenna is on the back building highlighted in orange. Needs to go up another 20-30 feet

That's the difference between the 2 cables. 1.6dB loss over 65' for the for the Airborne10 and 1.3db loss for the Hyperflex13. The gain of .3dB comes at the double the cost of the cable. I think my distance isn't great enough to jump up to the better cable. If it was a 1-1.5dB I wouldn't even be asking.

That is true. But a signal can punch through a tree if you have power. It's dead in the water with a formidable hill.

Well at the shop I have 50' of LMR400 and I need to get coax for the house. So it looks like I can get away with the Airborne 10. Plus it's a higher wattage transmitter than an HT. It claims 20 watts out but I've measured it at an average of 25 watts when it's a 14 volt input in my truck. Right around 18 watts when the voltage is at 12.0 Kinda what I figured when it's only going to be .3dB

So............ Is it worth it to go from M&P Airborne10 to Hyperflex13. I have two applications. 1st is at home and will be with a 20watt transmitter with a 7.2dBi antenna. 2nd will be at my shop with a 7.8 watt RT97S with a 7.2dBi antenna. The shop coax run might be 50' instead of 65'. Cost isn't really a huge factor even though the cables are 2x the price from each other. There are fittings to buy and have installed which tacks on another $50 and shipping for $20 or so, but is it really worth the 0.3dB? What would you do?

You really need to travel into some hilly areas with trees.

They do a little investigation by asking questions for things they know you've already done. And then they send you a new radio. It'll come by turtle post, but it'll get to you eventually.

The GMRS version of the radio is just that, a radio that will operate on those specified frequencies designated by the FCC for GMRS. Same thing if you put it into HAM mode. It won't be transmitting on any out of band frequencies. And open mode is just that. You can transmit on frequencies that you shouldn't be transmitting on. It's not being stupid, it's doing what it was designed to do.

Usually on the repeater I will start out with the call sign and then ask for who I'm looking for (family member). They're pretty non radio and rarely say the call sign. My wife will usually say the numbers at the end. Since it's a shared license I just do all the sign callouts for us. When we finish I will say call sign and WE are on the side or WE are out. What's funny is now the people on the repeater are recognizing me. I called out for the wife and got no response. I hear in the background 373 is on from someone to the owner repeater. He's going home now. I laughed and then talked to the guy on the way back to my shop and then another 5 minutes after I got there. He got into a bad area just as I was signing on the side.

My talkies did it to the stove and headlamp. But that's at 5' or so. The light is a good 35' away from my antenna. And it doesn't activate when I key up. It's when I unkey the mic when the light comes on.

There are lots of non profit groups that are willing to help or front those bills. Might be hard to find them for FCC related lawsuits though. Never know though. You might piss off a lawyer that is an HAM enthusiast with a bunch of lawyer friends.

The FCC isn't going to be dragging people into court, the people are going to be dragging the FCC into court to challenge their rules/regulations that they make up by themselves and treat as law.

My 20 watt mobile will turn on my neighbors motion detector light. I've had my H3 turn my stove on when I was close to it. All on 467Mhz, never on 462Mhz. Also have a headlamp that can be turned on with the H3. I have 3 repeaters 7, 17, 21 miles away that I can hit with the H3. The 2 farthest are on mountain tops. Sound volume when doing H3 to H3 is low/soft.

Congress tried to delegate it's authority to write bills to be made into law to bureaucrats in Alphabet agencies. The agencies took advantage of that for 40 years and now it going to be reigned in. It's going to be a painfully slow process to get things back to the way they were suppose to be.