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Did my walk around the block with to have a record of the 2nd original duplexer.  Since I do these things late at night I have a digital recorder I use to "listen" to me.  I do the test of the repeater and then switch to talk around to let me know where I am in case the repeater test doesn't go through.  There are a few spots on my walk that are iffy.  Like I've mentioned in other threads I have 1.6KM of dense forest in the way of my signal, 70' trees with my antenna at 40'.
After the new single channel tuned duplexer is installed I'll try to do the same test in the same spots.

Since the radios have a real off switch that physically disconnects the battery from the radio when off it really doesn't matter a whole lot as long as you turn the radio off when you charge it.  I've been using the charging stand since I've got the H3s and I only charge them when they are turned off.  Sometimes I charge the batteries separately when I need a new battery now and pull from my extra pile, then that weak battery gets charged out of the radio.
Just don't charge the battery while the radio is on and you shouldn't have any issues.

I could do a Radio Mobile calculation to let you know if you have line of site or not.  I would need pretty specific gps location to do so.

Did my walk around the block with to have a record of the 2nd original duplexer.  Since I do these things late at night I have a digital recorder I use to "listen" to me.  I do the test of the repeater and then switch to talk around to let me know where I am in case the repeater test doesn't go through.  There are a few spots on my walk that are iffy.  Like I've mentioned in other threads I have 1.6KM of dense forest in the way of my signal, 70' trees with my antenna at 40'.
After the new single channel tuned duplexer is installed I'll try to do the same test in the same spots.

Yep, I can't wait to do a real world test when I put it back in the RPT50 Btech.  Right now I have a wide band tuned duplexer in it that they sent as a replacement.  And this duplexer worked much better than the one I gave Marc to tune.  As soon as I swapped out I noticed a marked improvement in reception.  Not sure how it's tuned, if it's the same tuning as the one I gave to Marc or something else.  It's probably tuned better than the original just from the fact I could get better reception out of it.
I've done a lot of real world testing with my current setup.  I know where I can hit it and where I can't and where it's iffy.  It's the iffy spots I'm hoping to see better results.
And Marc I just want to say it so the people here see it too.  Thanks for doing this.  I appreciate your effort and I'm looking forward to putting it to good use.  I know you just wanted to play with your toys, but it's hopefully going to be a real world difference for my repeater.  This way we can both have our fun.  And just think, now I'll have that other duplexer.....👍

I could do a Radio Mobile calculation to let you know if you have line of site or not.  I would need pretty specific gps location to do so.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

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Looks like the duplexer is on the way and should get here late Wed if things go well.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

We have 4 or 5 that semi regularly use the repeater.  My wife isn't one of them but on rare occasions she'll chime into a conversation.  She has no problem contacting me though our repeater though.  I still think she thinks it's our private frequency.  I know it's not.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

You know how women like to talk.....

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.
Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.
 
And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

Yep, mine to.  But lots of sites run quick.  But that does answer the question about if there is a delay.  Yes, transmit stays on for predetermined time.  I guess my brain was off when I was thinking about that.  Not the first time, and I"m sure not the last.

Yep, mine to.  But lots of sites run quick.  But that does answer the question about if there is a delay.  Yes, transmit stays on for predetermined time.  I guess my brain was off when I was thinking about that.  Not the first time, and I"m sure not the last.

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