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I'm going to go with if you don't get over the majority of the foliage then the height isn't going to matter that much. I started at about 3 ft above ground as a test, then I went to 16 and then went to 40. I really never got much range increase from doing this in the direction that had to go through the trees. As a matter of fact at 16 feet it got worse because it was in the thick of the leaves where at 3' it was only going through the trunks. Just an observational opinion.

So that makes Zello against regulation. I hear that on one of my repeaters a lot that they were talking on Zello. But since I don't have or use Zello I'm not exactly sure what it is.

So this part

Mine is about 40' up but surrounded by trees that are 20' higher. I'm waiting to push it up above the trees to see if I can get farther. Right now with the RT97S I can get about 4 miles in the direction there are no trees. The treed areas are about 1.4 miles before the signal deteriorates. Might have to go up 80 feet to clear them. Not sure I can do that.

It that beautiful person who makes you sandwiches in the morning for your lunch.

Congrats !! What is the height of the antenna?

On the side there are two connectors for the mic and programming. One of them is the output to an external speaker. Not sure which is which though.

I generally get what I want, she does what she wants. Back in the day when we were married less than 10 years money was tight and we discussed things. Now after nearly 40 years we try to enjoy life.

That's how it started with me. Got a TD H3 pair for my birthday. Next thing you know I have 10 of them and I'm passing them out to the family for SHTF events if they come. Now I have 2 Wouxun KG20+'s one for my truck and one for the house. Coax, antenna, masting, lightning protection coming in the mail one by one. Trying to get the wife involved. She's sort of on board. Doesn't care if I do it, but resistant to use it even though she enjoys listening, we have an active repeater nearby. Trying to get it so my wife can easily contact my sister who is in the same town. But trees and hills complicate things. They both work at home so they could talk whenever they wanted at the push of a button. If I could get her on board with that then it's be much easier with everything else. But then I might have to worry about her addiction interfering with mine.......

I can neither confirm or deny that as there is an ongoing investigation on that subject..... Now where have I heard that before

I didn't know the H5 existed, but it does. Smaller battery at 1500mA-h. Looks like it's the size of the H8

H5?

Places aren't allowed to have raffles because state law says you can't gamble. So you change it to make a $5 donation to the organization and get this ticket to put in the cup to win the prize.. And now gambling is legal. Laws and technicalities can be a real challenge.

He forgot about companies that go there and then sell the information to them. Do you really think the govt would listen to that? Or a court would give them the decision? But good try.

How do you establish this for an open repeater? Unless you transmit a short "show" with the rules etc once a week or month. Paper or text isn't a reality between radios. This is one of the things I talk about with regulations being so broad you can't figure out what they really mean. How can we come up with so many different interpretations from the same regulations written on paper? Besides it's done on purpose so they can interpret it they way they wish at the time they need to use it.

Nearly impossible if you have an open "travelers" repeater on 141.3Hz. People come and go likely never to use it again.

Exactly

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.