LeoG

Looks like right now is a good time to try.

Looks like Sat 8am will be the next good time to try.

Well last night late I was able to hit the repeater. Signal was pretty weak whereas when I heard it the 1st time it was pretty good. About 50% on the signal meter with OK quieting. Definitely need atmospheric conditions to be right to make the connection. Still don't know how I get around that mountain.

Exactly. LOL

Must have been some atmospheric aberration to allow the signal to get to my radio. Tried again today to listen/hit their repeater with no success. A bit disappointed, but shocked I was able to hear it in the first place.

But his repeater system lives on. Figured I do a shout out. Never really expected an answer. After the rain started I lost the signal. If it's not raining tonight I'll check to see if I can hear it again. Maybe it was just a weird fluke that the signal worked itself around and got to me. But it was coming into my radio 5x3 on the meter with mostly good modulation of the people. Some random static I assume from the distance.

I'm receiving a signal from the 575 LI East End repeater in Northern CT when I clearly should not be able to receive or hit this repeater, which I can. I've noticed the low level signal on my radio which is set to a much more local repeater. I figured out what the output PL tone was to isolate it and listened in. Figured out the PL input and was able to hit it. Right through a mountain, unless their antenna is 590 meters above ground level. Not sure if this is something I can receive/hit regularly or not.

Seems as though somehow I can hear your 575 LI East End repeater up in Windsor Locks, CT

Playing radio by yourself isn't fun. LOL

If you build it they will come. If there are no FM CBs there is no ability to talk on the system for the normies. So the businesses take a risk in producing the radios to see if they will be bought.

You have no idea how many people would be banned on the forums I moderate if I had no morals or merits. But I can constrain myself and my feelings and they, unfortunately are still on the forum. It's just another job you have to do within the constrains given.

I set my KG20+ up as a base station using a Pyramid Power supply. The description fooled me into thinking this was a 7 amp power supply when it is really a 4.5 amp. 7 amp is the surge rating. Either way, it works fine and I have full output from the transmitter. I get between 20 and 25 watts out depending on the frequency. I don't transmit that much on the base station as it's more for the wife to listen. But so far the power supply has performed to spec and the radio works just like it should.

Originally the same amount of channels in CB as GMRS. 23 for CB and 22 for GMRS. The they went to 40 and added SSB which just annoyed people. Just like putting digital on GMRS

Probably done by truckers to help their brethren.

Says no linked repeaters. Clearly means you aren't allowed to use a linked repeater. That is how the citation will go. But I agree with you. Needs to be specifically stated. Any ambiguity in the law should benefit the accused, not the govt.

Now that's getting into the nitty gritty. There is no regulation saying you can't use a linked repeater. There is (seems to be) a regulation saying you can't link repeaters. Again the FED will assume that one means the other. But as you said, it isn't written anywhere.

I don't think CH9 being an emergency channel was ever an official decree. It was made that way early on. I could be wrong.

The members of the club used it knowing it was a linked repeater. When I used it, it was my first time and I was clueless to it being linked although I figured it out after 2 days from hearing conversations way out of range of the repeater I connected to. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.... Which is something I never bought. Because law enforcement and the judicial have so many laws and antiquated laws on the books no one can keep track of them.

I'm just assuming it takes a pretty big hill to stop the signal, or a bunch of smaller ones in succession. The signal makes it over the hill still above your radio but because of propagation of waves it starts creeping down again. In the shadow of the hill and as you get farther from it you can get more signal bleeding down. One of the main reasons not to have a super high gain antenna in a hilly area. If you laser beam your signal in one small plane it will get absorbed more by an blocking object.

If you have vertical "walls" of rock it will. But in my case it's hills and I wouldn't expect a bounce to put the signal where I want it.

We be doin' some bouncin then

Oh darn. It's showing information that isn't corresponding to my results for me. Or my signals are punching through hills. This is my repeater (gr) and my sisters location (bl) and I was happily talking to a friend across the river through the RT97S repeater. Just seeing a red line doesn't equal no signal. And I had a very nice signal talking between two 4.5 watt HTs and the repeater.

Great reference !

Here is your area in the topographical map. Have fun https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-gn9tp/Connecticut/?center=44.45529%2C-87.92378&zoom=14&popup=44.44725%2C-87.92001

The maps I use work off of ASL so that's what I'm using. You can do the extra math if you'd like. Both are relative if I stick with ASL or AGL and don't mix them