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Well I'm always saying the LRG repeater, so it should be understood.

The good thing about mass production is you can lower costs and pass it on. The bad thing is if you have a production issue it runs until someone catches it.

I don't think the main reason is we forgot. The main reason is profit and greed. Environmental regulation here in the US is overwhelmingly expensive to deal with and over there they just don't care. Along with cheap labor and govt subsidies providing benefits to those who export from overseas to the US.

So since I'm IDing, no CW is required. Don't have plans on stranger to stranger use of the repeater.

I like my $25 TidRadios and think for the price they are fantastic. I've had several bad ones because I've bought 14 of them. All replace as easily as making a polite email. I've yet to have a good radio go bad. Only radios that never worked to begin with.

As you can see Randy, I don't care about heads exploding. As a matter of fact it's really fun to watch.

Here's a question. I know that when you set up a repeater for family use only the repeater doesn't need to self ID. And if it's a public repeater with many users it does need to self ID. But what if I have a family repeater and invite someone to use it, basically only to converse with me since we are friends and he won't really be talking to any of my other family members. Since I'm the repeater owner and I ID myself at the required times as well as my friend using his own ID. Does that mean the repeater needs to self ID?

We as Americans pay for the R&D of all the medications and the rest of the world get the real price without that added in along with the patent fees and such. And if this isn't specifically true it certainly seems as if it is. I would think it should be the other way around where the American companies would give it's own citizens the deals and hike the prices on other countries to make up the difference.

It was always a stupid idea to rely on other countries for vital things that we can produce ourselves. Always comes down to greed and not need. This and the next administrations need to follow through and make all vital products and services to be made in the US. The huge transformers that are needed for the major parts of the grid are made overseas and take 2 years to get after you order them. Does this seem like a good strategy?

And Socalgrms complains constantly about cheap chynese radios that have some QC issues. Looks like the big boy have the issues too but no one is going to mention them because they paid big bux for the radio.

dBi numbers are bigger therefore you can sell more antennas.

I was playing around with radio mobile online and notice that their calculations are off because they are using dBi numbers in dB and dBm equations. That's what prompted me to look for a calculator for µV to dBm. t They have it as (46.23-1.3+9.8+9.8-1.6)-132.0=-69.07dBm I believe it should be (46.23-1.3+7.65+7.65-1.6)-132.0=-73.37dBm

https://absolute-emc.com/calculator/convert/dBm

Ya, I just got the CA712EFC and the "C" is just a sticker they put on. 1st time I bought the antenna I emailed the company and they said that's the way they do it. 2nd time I ordered the antenna it was the same. No need to email the company, had already been through it.

My non output H3 would transmit for about 1/3 mile to my other H3. But it wouldn't connect to a repeater. So very likely there is output even if it's just from the oscillator in the front end and not the main power output. The radios are sensitive enough to pick up very weak signals. Just not throw them far enough for a repeater to pick them up. But ya, check your tones. With the H3 you can wirelessly clone one radio to the other. So if one works and the cloned one doesn't there is an output issue.

Ya, that can be annoying and nice at the same time. But you have to do it in the right order. If you put the tone in the RX it'll automatically put it in the TX, but you still need to go there and press the blue button to enter it. At that point if you have a split tone you can enter it, but you must put the RX tone in 1st. It you put the TX tone in 1st and then the RX it'll change the TX tone. That was just part of the learning curve on the radio.

Why are you here? You don't seem to like any radios anyone has, only have negative things to say. Do you come here to bish at people because your life is so sad?

It's not an "issue". It's the way it works. Unfortunately it's not in the manual so no one realizes it until they ask questions. It's more of a missing item in the manual.

Did the update a while ago and it was successful. I had the cable with the chip built in and the cable they sent me was just a straight USB>RJ45 no chip. I'm guessing the chip is in the repeater. So ever since I did the update it's been tough for my house to reach the repeater. Today I remembered they put a squelch function in the works and I went to find it and the default is set to 6. Who sets the default that high? I dropped it to 1 and low and behold my wife can reach the shop. I've always been able to reach the house good. At 6 it was pretty sketchy and a lot of the time no audio, just the repeater courtesy tone. We'll see if it keeps working from now on or if this was just a coincidence.

Sounds like they took a nice radio and really screwed it up. I have none of those issues with the original. Worst issue is you get a dead transmit radio every once in a while, and they replace that. Ya, if you get in with them through email they will treat you right. I deal with Luxi and she hasn't lead me wrong yet. Gave me a UV26 to test and review. I like the H3 better.

What's not awesome about it? I think the TDH3 is pretty awesome for the money.

Got the tracking # for the hardline, not arriving for a week. Looks like by that time the weather might be a bit more pleasant to be out in. Below freezing tonight.

Sounds like a good setup.

Well that's different than entering the program mode for the original TDH3. It's just push the PTT and turn the unit on after you've activated the firmware update in the IAP app. We don't need to push the 1 button.

Usually with this type of hardware you can just put the previous firmware back into the machine and get it going again. It has a ROM memory that is the basis of the radio and the firmwares just update that without affecting it. So turning the radio off, push the PTT and use the previous version and it should start up again.