dcbaden

Great. Thanks again.

Awesome. Thanks for your response. Is coordination an issue? There's only one other repeater nearby, so I'm thinking that I could just pick another channel. Here are my plans, any critique is welcome: Buy an old Kenwood TKR repeater from ebay and a Chinese made duplexer, both tuned for the channel pair I intend to use. Mod the repeater to work on 12V so that I can connect it to my shack power supply and/or backup batteries. Hoist a commercial UHF antenna cut to 46x.xxx test, test, test... enjoy

Good to know about the MTR2000. Is there any special licensing needed to set up a repeater, or is it done under my GMRS license? I'd like to do this but I'm finding Part 95 very confusing. Can't make heads or tails of wattage and antenna height either. Any help is appreciated.