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  1. My current antenna is attached to my roof on an old existing directv mount that was already on roof and grounded, I'm hoping the new comet will swap right in with the 239 to n adapter and I wont need to much else
  2. I've seen some good reviews online for the 10 1/2 foot comet gmrs (commercial) base antenna, I ordered one and it should be coming in by Monday. I'm replacing my current existing antenna and ordered a 239 to n adapter. Anyone have experience first hand with the comet?
  3. Pretty much any handheld gmrs is capable of transmitting at 2 watts, but since you mentioned repeaters I assume that you are looking for about a 2 watt repeater capable handheld?
  4. Try driving closer to the repeater and see if you can connect. The current version of the gmrs-v1 is only 2 watts, most data listed online is for the original version. You really won't get very far with only 2 watts on the stock antenna if you have any obstructions to your line of sight.
  5. As an added bonus, I took apart both of my bad mics and was able to make 1 good one out of the 2
  6. New mic just came in and everything is good now
  7. That is correct when your radio is on a repeater channel
  8. To use a repeater with the gmrs-v1 you don't set the rx & tx frequencies on seperate a&b channels. In your case you would set either channel a or b on rept20 which is channel 20 repeater it will then receive on 462.675 and transmit on 467.675 automatically. Then go to menu 12 (t-dcs) and turn on for 123 code, while on a repeater channel your 2 radios will not work in simplex (directly between each other) because they are transmitting and receiving on different channels. If you still cannot get onto the repeater then you are too far from the repeater to reach with your radio, OR the repeater has been modified/taken out of service and not updated in the database.
  9. Don't know why it double posted, sorry about that
  10. Setup: Duracomm 14amp power supply, ed fong gmrs antenna approx 12ft high on roof mounted to vent pipe, 50 ft of rg8x. I had a midland mxt275 running through this setup already with no problems Test: requested radio checks through the linked net, I can hear the repeater tone after rx. One of the mics is a dtmf and tones come through fine. Also tried simplex to handheld with no luck. Also tried monitoring using mygmrs.com homepage live stream web link to repeater network. Tested: I have a tk880-1 ver2.0, a tk880-1h ver1, a kmc27, a kmc28, 3 mic cables (2 aftermarket, 1 oem) I swapped back over to the mxt275 and it still works just fine. Will go back into programming and check everything again, I'm pretty new to all of this so I may have messed up somewhere. New mic should be arriving today from ebay to try as well.
  11. Setup: Duracomm 14amp power supply, ed fong gmrs antenna approx 12ft high on roof mounted to vent pipe, 50 ft of rg8x. I had a midland mxt275 running through this setup already with no problems Test: requested radio checks through the linked net, I can hear the repeater tone after rx. One of the mics is a dtmf and tones come through fine. Also tried simplex to handheld with no luck. Also tried monitoring using mygmrs.com homepage live stream web link to repeater network. Tested: I have a tk880-1 ver2.0, a tk880-1h ver1, a kmc27, a kmc28, 3 mic cables (2 aftermarket, 1 oem) I swapped back over to the mxt275 and it still works just fine. Will go back into programming and check everything again, I'm pretty new to all of this so I may have messed up somewhere. New mic should be arriving today from ebay to try as well.
  12. That is also assuming no Dcs (privacy codes), dcs codes are used to filter out incoming traffic so you hear only the traffic you want to. Pretty much every repeater has some sort of Dcs code configured on it's receive frequency.
  13. When you have the mxt275 on channel 15 without the "rp" repeater icon it will transmit & receive on 462.550 . When you select the repeater channel 15 (with the "rp" icon) you will continue to receive on 462.550 but transmit at 467.550 . What that means is that you can still receive and hear traffic from a repeater on the non-repeater channel, but when you transmit the repeater will not hear you because it is looking to receive at the 467.550 . Without the frequency separation used in repeater "rp" mode, nobody on the repeater will hear your transmission except any station that is within direct simplex range of your transmission.
  14. Thanks to user axorlov I was able to get past the issue I was having but ended up with having a new issue. Neither of my oem mics are working with either of my radios, possible that both mics are bad. Got another one coming in the mail from ebay to try. They will both key up the radio but no audio is transmitting.
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