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11 minutes ago, WRYZ926 said:
They are also easily overloaded by other radios in close proximity (1/2 mile or less)
Although overload is a real thing, after testing LITERALLY every GMRS handheld manufactured in the last 5 years, I have never, EVER, NOT ONCE seen any overload/desense issues unless the radios were closer than about 75 feet, an 90% of the time they had to be closer than 25 feet or so.
To claim that overload is an issue at up to a 1/2-mile, on its surface, seems like a preposterous over-exagguration, based on my very extensive testing. But that's just my experience..
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3 hours ago, WRXB215 said:
...starting out with ham radios is going to make it a
littleLOT more difficult...Fixed that for you.
For someone that is already at least vaguely familiar with what repeaters are and how they work, its a "little" more difficult.. For someone that knows absolutely zero about nuthin, it is going to be a LOT more difficult.
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1 minute ago, back4more70 said:
my HAM ID
It's H.A.M.! You passed a test, you should know better.
- WRZY833, back4more70 and WSAA635
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All of your radios are H.A.M. radios, so they probably won't be able to transmit on the GMRS repeater.. But, if they are unlocked, you can ignore the 'output' tone until you know what you're doing, and just use the input tone by entering that in your repeater-channel setup which will be specific to each radio.
You have a lot to learn - there are no simple, quick answers.. Unless you had real GMRS radios, then it is actually pretty simple and quick to use a repeater.. but you have H.A.M. radios.. sooo...
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8 minutes ago, WRYS709 said:
Edit: Nevermind
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1 hour ago, Sshannon said:
This is probably the issue. UHF just doesn’t pass through moisture bearing vegetation.
Moisture bearing vegetation is even worse than houses full of .. .fat people!
- Sshannon, hfd376, back4more70 and 1 other
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If you are using a real GMRS radio you dont need to hassle with the offset, just switch to the correct repeater channel - IF the repeater truly does not require a tone, then thats all you need. My guess is that it does need a tone, but it's just not there for whatever reason.
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Where are you located? I've noticed this on Channel 17 for the last month or two, almost everywhere I go when I'm off-roading and at my house. This means I am hearing it over an area that is thousands of square miles of southern California - even when i'm deep in canyons where there is no line of site to anything. I am starting to think it is sunspots or aliens.
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2 minutes ago, Webslinger said:
Curious as to why I could hear Net Control and other stations so clearly, but when it came my turn, my signal was in and out?
Because they all have a better signal/are closer to the repeater than you, and you have an HT with a small antenna/are further away/have more stuff between you and the repeater.
The best thing you can do is connect to a bigger/better/external antenna or get closer to the repeater. A mag mount stuck to a cookie-sheet placed up high/near a window can work great.
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3 minutes ago, WRNN316 said:
Thank you to the people who responded with civility and couth
You're my best friend now.
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You could be doing any one of a-bazillion things wrong.
But i'll start with these questions: What kind of antenna is the repeater connected to and is it tuned to the frequency you are using? What kind, and how long is the coax? are you using the specific frequencies on the repeater that the internal duplexer is tuned for?
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6 minutes ago, WRNN316 said:
Go eat a snickers or don't even comment. I don't care how many repeaters you have set up, buy yourself a trophy or tell your wife about it. Im trying to figure this out and thought this would be a good place to ask questions. Did you build this lack luster website and now you're offended by me calling out its lack of details?
I think i like you, can we be friends?
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19 minutes ago, WRNN316 said:
I feel like there should be more info about the repeaters listed
Your feelings do not matter.
I have setup in the neighborhood of 30 repeaters from the listing here, and 100% of them had all the information I needed to use them. If you are not able to figure out how to use a repeater listed here, then you are doing it wrong.
and no, those details will not benefit the community at all because they are irrelevant, or in the case of tones, all the info is already there.
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Its very easy:
- Read manual
- Identify what Repeater channel your local repeater is on
- Change radio to the correct repeater channel
- Enter the correct TX (transmit) CTC or DTC tone for the repeater and save (for questions, refer to item #1) do not concern yourself with the RX/Receive tone until you level-up to "I know what I'm doing now"
- Hold radio near your noise output hole, & push the talk trigger and talk, then take your finger off the trigger
- Hold radio near your noise input hole and wait for everyone to congratulate you on a job well-done
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The hole is only for electricities, not bits or bytes.
- WRXB215 and back4more70
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3 hours ago, WRUE951 said:
kind of like what you do against HAMS on a non stop basis
I have never done any such thing against just any/all H.A.M. operators - and if you are not capable of understanding who I actually do that to (basically as @Sshannon specified), then you are exactly who I, and everyone else, makes fun of, and rightfully so.
- Soggybottomboy and WRHS218
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Noob question RE: Repeater tones
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The Output Tone is always optional and is only used to limit what you hear to only that repeater.