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Should be analog and fusion capable. Can't remember exactly, been a while since I programmed.If I’m trying to program this repeater into my radio. Do I need to worry about fusion or is that just saying that you can use fusion to connect to that repeater as well
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But if I remember correctly, fusion doesn't use tones. So if a fusion/wirex repeater has a tone it is usually fm analog capable. Then you just program fm normally, frequency, offset and tones, basically ignore that is says anything about fusion. If you have a fusion capable radio, then just make sure your wirex ID (fusion id) is programmed into the radio and turn ams on. I usually set mine to fm wide with the red bar. Make sure the repeater is programmed with the fm setting. Then if it hears fm it stays analog. If it hears fusion it flips to fusion. Bit more complicated to start a fusion transmission. Since you manually flip it into fusion mode. I love fusion wide (sounds most natural) I think fusion narrow sounds more like p25 and it's meh.
Remember
Fusion= yeasu c4fm digital
Wirex = yeasu c4fm digital with internet ( able to connect to Yeasu Wirex rooms over the internet)
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Roland will be greatly missed.
He was a big signature in the D.C. metro area as well as up and down the mid-atlantic, PA, NJ/NY and WVa.
His base setup (completely legal) had some reach and if the conditions were right with some ducting. His voice could be heard on a repeater by you or even on simplex.
For 2 years straight, when I commuted to and from work. He would often chat with me, purposely pausing his day to catch me on various repeaters. I have caught him doing this with multiple people including Marc. He was outstanding steward for the radio community and was upstanding.
In person, his Veteran Vietnam Naval side came out with the swear words. What a character that "old fart" was.
Rest in peace WRPJ758, 42 (former Capital City React) Roland you deserve it of any person I have ever met.
The D.C. area GMRS community lost a great one. Now who will answer the 5x radio checks a day on all the repeaters.
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Should be in the radio documentation. Not all ready can tone scan, but most none frs radios have the ability.
Then you have to wait for transmissions before you tone scan.
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Don't trust the coverage map. They can be set by the repeater post owners. Often are a guesstimate, with little to no verification.
Couple that with a 50w base station vs a 5w ht then its acrual coverage can/may/usually will be different.
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Are you sure it's a repeater output?
The repeater outputs are the simplex frequencies.
If in fact it is a repeater output. I would tone scan to see what it is.
You may have found an unpublished repeater in your area. Or simply found a repeater you can not key up due to distances.
I frequently here the Towson repeater at my home. But can not key it up due to the distance. The repeater transmits better then it hears from my location.
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That would make sense. I knew the only place feature could be added was on the cloud.From what I understand, local computer programming has been available for quite a while, however, the intilization of the APXNext requires connection to the cloud for activation, then you have enable local programming, then you can program with your computer like normal. It's not very desirable.
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Oh, good to know. I was told the Apxnext was programmed via the ONLY the cloud. I will have to expand this conversation with him to get better clarification. If need so the group has people from Fema, local fd techops and some other 3 letter agencies so I can get clarification.Ive been programming my NEXT via my PC and even my own RM server for quite some time.......Have alot of folks that use them that do the same....Not sure why your saying it can't be done and has to be done via cloud but thats 100% inaccurate. Some folks choose to use the cloud version and there is nothign wrong with that. Its the end users choise.
I mean once you know someone in the govt whom woks with radios. You find the circle is heavily interlinked. Chances are you probably know most of them.
Thanks for the input.
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And some more sounds from hf and like radios these are the transmissions over the bands. They even have some of the military transmissions encrypted of course.
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At least it is localized.The thing is that its only a problem when you are directly south of the site... drive-by on the freeway, slightly north, and even though you can still see the towers, its not an issue... But drive 1 mile south, and you have to turn off your (cheap) radios. Go another mile or two south-east or south-west, and it goes away.
If you like cool sounds. Here is a video clip of a guy recording different sounds of EMF and their source.
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Sounds kinda like this or similar? This uhf radar.Next time i'm out there I'll record it and necropost the recording here.
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Lol.. Now I am imagining chuffing mixed the sounds from the movie Contact.Jeezus, Kripes.. SDRs are not allowed when off-roading..
It actually sounds like a digital (P25/DMR/NXDN) carrier, but with much more static mixed-in.
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Do you have a SDR screen capture of the interference? Is it like the noise floor is way higher or there is something like a carrier on all the frequencies?
Maybe our government decided to build uhf version of the Russian woodpecker..lol
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That's ma "M" for you.Tagging this to remind me I need to try reregistering. I have a non commercial account.
After trying to go the legit route to get software tomprogram a couple xpr6500's (that I suspect were upgraded to 2.0), was told they needed to convert my account to a business account...sent them the needed info, and nothing since (months ago, now), and no change to my account ?
You should see the bs for an Apxnext... hey we will control it from the cloud. Entitlements and programming done from the cloud. So you get the opportunity to pay "M" to program with something they may decide later they no longer care to keep the servers up on. Yeah, yeah, they plan on allowing local programming, so they said 2 years ago.
As far as piracy. I worked for a software company for a long time. I hate piracy. With a cavet, if the firm obsoleted a piece of software with no extended support options. I am ok with people using it, at their own risk. Revenue generation was no longer an option for that firm.
Thus I was going to mention blue max. Someone beat me to the punch.
Most of my friends have the rib boxes an old pc or are running dosbox. There are ways around all of it.
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Another thing with a quality mag mount, recommend nmo style, additional connector. You change your ht to a psedu mobile. Just don't expect miracles? Your dealing with less than 10 watts.
For me at least, most ht antennas are a waste of money. This includes tactical gigantic antennas like the abree 48" folding one. Even on my ham/lmr hts, small exceptions.
Personally, I wish I had saved the money for something like an at779uv/db20g for a starter mobile/base with a quality antenna setup.
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Because everyone's terrain and situation is different. Go test... no one answer, unfortunately. So ask away, this is what the forum is for.Well, I don’t really have a particular set range. I am new to GMRS and I am just wanting to try these types of setups to see how far I can reach, to learn more about these setups & about GMRS. Thanks for the reply and info, I will check it out.
It is a hobby so l have fun, and ignore the aholes out there.
Also I edited my original post with the connector type.
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Are trying to do ht to ht?
Most handheld radios with antennas utilize a sma connector. So your radio will have an sma male or sma female connector and the antenna will have the opposite gender. You can look online for photos. The one with the hole is the female
You can go one step further and get the proper connector to something like a bnc connector. Why? Sma connector the threads and pins can get damaged fairly easily. So if your disconnecting and connecting a lot, a connector with a bnc will be useful to not damage the radio or antenna.
As far as yagis. Yes, they are directional. They usually have about 20° cone (about 3-5 elements) for for direction. The higher the gain, the narrower the cone gets.
Gmrs, UHF and SHF are very line of sight. So if you want distance you need to get above obstructions. Ie, buildings, trees, terrain.
Sorry for being long winded.
EDIT: just checked, according to Mikor that radio has a female sma connector on the radio.
So something like a male sma to so259 connector should work to connector to most antennas. Pl259 is the male connector on most coax and so239 is the female counterpart. Please check the coax to verify connector if pre-installed. Because it could be N type, which would require different adapters.
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We use to walk under transmission line, when I was younger. We would go at night with the old shop fluorescent bulbs.As mentioned, you should be far enough away from the power lines.
While high voltage power lines do put out an electromagnetic field, you have to be pretty close before they will cause interference. And they will not affect UHF/GMRS like they affect the HF frequencies.
Funny story.
I operated a truck mounted machine shop powered by a 25KW PTO driven generator. The generator was not electromangetically suppressed and would jam all comm equipment within 100-150 feet of the truck.
It was very cool how the lights would light up. You could make the emf waves in the light patterns, like ripples of waves.
Now I am older I do not recommend it. Lol
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It is not the arcing so much. It's more of the large electrical discharge of a near by strike 1-2 miles away can generate large voltage spikes, almost as bad for electronics with out the same visual effect as a direct strike.Thanks. That’s another concern of mine with the HVT line towers being a lightning magnet. Arcing over to my tower
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Shouldn't be an issue, as long as the transformers are not having issues. They should be well outside of near fields with the distance of each other.I’m wanting to put up a 35 foot tower with a Comet 712EFC on top of it using 1/2 inch hardline. Before I sink a bunch of money into it, I got High Voltage Transmission Lines on Towers within 150 foot of where I would erect my tower and antenna. Would it be a waste of money and time to even consider it from interference? I have several HT’s of different brands and it doesn’t affect any of them. Not sure though if a base would be a different story being that close to the HVT lines? Thanks for your opinions
Just make sure tower can not intersect the lines in the event of a failure with a fall over. Don't forget to calculate the height with the antenna.
One caveat pay attention to equipment grounding. Electrical hv transmission towers are like lightning magnets. This can attract near field (under a mile or so) strikes. Doesn't have to be a direct hit to damage to your equipment.
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Adding a ground plane kit should not make a significant improvement.
The matching coil is going to be close to the hood. Unfortunately, that is generally were a good amount of the radio signals will be comming from.
Plus you are going to have about 1/4 to 1/3 of the antenna not shielded by the windshield.
It will work, just not as well as if it was on the roof of a car/truck.
With mine on the hood mount of the landcruiser I saw swr north of 2.2 in the gmrs frequencies.
One thing to keep in mind when off roading. It is a stiff antenna with a high wind load. Even with the optional spring it doesn't like taking whacks. There a metric crap ton of allen grub screws. That strip and work loose overtime. I got tired of tilting my over and just switched back to my larsen 2/70 (half of the paint is missing from all the whacks).
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Not really ideal.I can get the antennas up to about 50'. I am placing repeaters at each home to get complete coverage between the 30 mile radius, due to terrain and the lack of power on the handhelds. You can call me if you want more details. .
Find a center location for the repeater.
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They all work decently. Even the Rtlsdr off of Amazon, usually to $20-40.
It is usually what I buy for friends (usually with a minimum with rabbit ears. Then tell them to look at the different consoles (software) to find what they like. Each console has a different feel and some are way more technical.
Don't get caught up in to many of the recommendations. Nor the the technical like lna's, bias tees and long wires off the jump.
It has a lot to learn. But first get your hands on a cheaper unit like an rtlsdr. I had a generic one (silver one) and it looks like Amazon is full of the Nolecs now adays.
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Last time this bad of a cme event occurred it was suppose to be in 2005, 19 years ago
At the time personally, I didn't care so no memory. But then again alot less electronics were available for the average consumer. So shrug.
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poor RX quality when driving
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Does it sound ok when sitting still?
Can be a combination of things.
1. crap mics
2. Radios are set to narrow band on the channel (fairly often cause what you describe, being underwater). It will mostly sound like it is undermodulatrd and muffled. Especially, if one radio is set to wideband and the rx radio is set to narrowband.
3. Picket fencing (not likely). The radio signal partially blocked from one radio to another. Sounds like the audio is skipping.
Keep in mind the antennas aren't static. Due to them wagging in the wind (the longer they are the worse they can get) can cause other issues.
But if it is muddled audio between two mobile radios close to each other, might bet is 1 or both radios are set to narrow band. Frs channels are narrow band by default and can't be changed. Verify on both radios are set to wide band on the particular frequency. Use the repeater out put channels and jack the power to mid levels and see if things improve.
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