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Yes.

yes, put the * tone in the TX location leave RX open or off. if you need further help please start your own thread.

As for as I know there is not. the best option would be to use a PO box. All of my FCC searches go to my PO box, No physical address has ever been listed.

Yep, it starts to get real complicated after that. lol, I'm out.

Yeah they are on DCS125 and they are harmless. they might even be operating legally according to the new rules. I do not here them on the input, so they are off my radar so to speak.

If you use your radio from your car or truck a lot, Get a mag mount antenna or a glass mount antenna, both can easily be moved from a truck to truck. Generally the stock antenna that comes with the radio is as good and in some cases better than the upgrade replacement antennas. However, some have had good luck with the 15" antenna sold on E-bay and "A" For boating you could consider installing a UHF marine antenna to connect to your HT wile onboard. I recommend installing SMA to BNC adapters to the tops of your radios and using common BNC antennas and connectors for your antenna connections. This makes it easy to change antennas on the fly.

Do you have an outdoor antenna? unless you have some height, your not going to hear much.

Try listening to the input for 600, I am hearing illegal marine simplex users, no ID. What's worse they are using the travel tone for their PL. I have been recording their comms. I know what area, still need to figure out which marina. I had to take the repeater down last night, something was very wrong, so I am installing our old backup so as the run test. I hope I did not damage the transmitter.

LOL, yea I was thinking the same. but after playing with one end I realized how different it is than LMR600, anyway a Ham friend is supposed to drop by one day and help and show how. I have 4 terminations including the jumper inside the cabinet. I am in no hurry, so it will happen when the time is right.

The repeater in plantation is a local repeater only, maybe a mile or two. I live in east lauderdale and with a 5 watt radio at 62' and directional antenna, I am unable to hit it. I have been west of 441 and south of sunrise with truck antenna and nothing. I am the sysop for FTL600 and we are prepping for a hardline upgrade, you may have better luck with FTL600 after the upgrade.

Perfect timing, I have been taking records of illegal input activity. This will make it easy to file.

I'm fixing to terminate and install a brand new run of Heliax LDF4-50a. The comscope prep tool I ordered, did not include a coring tool, how important is coring and can it be done by hand? I know a few of you have worked with this hardline and will have first hand experience, I could use some help. Please Advise..

No, I use a Hoffman environmental enclosure, I drilled a 5/8in hole in the bottom and used a bulkhead style arrestor, with an LMR400 2 foot jumper inside the box. My grounding, grounds the arrestor and the environmental enclosure. I have been told I should ground the tower also, and separately.

The attic install is less than ideal. Roof line install is a much better situation. Lightning is much less of an issue if your mast is grounded and you have a grounded inline lighting arrestor. I have a 55' tower 6 years and no strike. Go with the chimney mount and ground, you will be much happier.

I ordered 80' of LDF4-50a, and connectors. Plan to do the upgrade in the next week or so..

Oh, make sure you do not have an RX tone set.

Get a pole and put up an outdoor antenna, the higher the better. Use a segment of LMR240 or LMR400 for a longer run, to connect to radio with an adapter. I use a BNC adapter and use BNC type antennas and BNC on the main feedline as well. You can also use a more flexible 240 for the final connection to the radio. BNC does have some loss, but is convenient to take radio from house to Truck, to car. If you do decide to work with poles, check out the pole to pole brackets as well as the hinged base lean over option for ease of servicing. Also a Yagi antenna is directional and will allow you to connect to radios and repeaters much further away. If you go directional you may also want a rotor.

Not sure I would feel comfortable mounting to that existing bracket and raising more than a few feet. I would get a masonry bit and drill your own in the more ideal location. Then you can easily go up 10 feet. also keep in mind, off set dish antennas beam is more up than out. even on that old bracket you will not be in line of sight.

I like the battery power supply option, You would purchase a nice deep cycle battery and an appropriate low noise charger for said battery. then connect your gear to the battery via a fused circuit. Your power will generally be 13.8v and during grid power fail, you will still have 12.5 to 13v and several hours of stand by power. In my case, I have a 110AH lead acid battery under my bench and 12v power outlets at my work space. I also have several 12v powered tools and a ventilation fan. I also have a 9" LED TV that only uses 5.5 watts. Great post storm set up, keeps communications going for several hours. Our repeater has a 55 AH AGM battery and operates for up to a day of lite to moderate use. clean quite power supplies like Astron can cost several hundred, this set is comparable in price.

I want to go Heliax 1/2 inch, but I am so afraid of damaging it with a retracting and tilt over Antenna Support Structure. Heliax is not very flexible and I have tight and close quarters around the base. I should just pull the triger and give it a shot.

That's a shame, thanks for letting me know.

Yes, check your spam folder, if it's in there, un-spam it. should also recover to your inbox. If all else fails, set MyGMRS to priority.

Get a pole, a house bracket, good quality antenna and feedline. the pole and house bracket cost less than $30 and provides a good place to mount a quality antenna. messing with aluminum gutter work will create all kinds of problems, some already mentioned above. For best results use two poles and a pole to pole bracket and do your best to get the antenna at least 10' above your roofs ridge line. There are lot's of options for mounting a pole to your home, a tilting base is also helpful.

I figured, but wanted to clarify in case someone were to get confused. Best regards

Will the Tera do mixed tones Like TX PL, RX DPL.