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SDS

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  1. Gentlemen, Thanks again for your reply and patience with this rookie. I really do appreciate it I called the company I bought the cable from and they said ... yeah, the guy you spoke with shouldn't have told you to buy that cable .. argh. At this point, what type of cable would you recommend? Also, the jumpers between the radio and the duplexer look like cheap CB coax jumpers. I would post a picture here, but don't know how. What connectors would you recommend? Thanks again!!
  2. Thank you all for taking the time to reply. As this is all new to me, I really appreciate it As an update, I took the seller up on his offer to check the duplexer. The seller tested the duplexer and I was told the duplexer is tuned correctly. When the duplexer was sent back, I reinstalled the duplexer and made sure all the connections were correct. The repeater frequencies used are not active frequencies in this area. At this point, the repeater will work on occasion (repeater worked well with a very clean signal little over 4 miles out) and the later when I tried I just heard the repeater kurchunk (nothing is transmitted). Then, when I get about 1/8 mile from the house I can hit the repeater again. There is no real pattern when the repeater works and when it doesn't. I leave the repeater on (don't turn it off at night) and the repeater doesn't appear to be overheating. Do duplexers go bad and if so is what I am describing a symptom? If not, has anyone experienced anything similar? Any other ideas? Thanks again for you time!
  3. Hello Wizards of GMRS, I have been bitten by the GMRS bug and have even gone as far as to purchase a repeater (ICOM FR4000). Currently, I am using a Comet C-712EFC on a 20 foot mast with 50 feet of DXE-400MAXDX050 coax. The issue I am having is the repeater works fine within a 1/8 of mile, but beyond that I only hear the repeater kurchunk (nothing is transmitted). I have contacted the seller and they said that maybe the duplexer wasn't tuned correctly and offered to reprogram the repeater. Have any of you run into something similar or have any other ideas what might be the problem? Thanks in advance!
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