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For 10 years I unscrewed my NMO mount when backing my F350 in the garage every night. Sometimes a better mount requires a bit of work. Just food for thought.

So being this has been beaten to death on RR I don't really want 200 posts on this forum over it. It is up to you to pay or not. I provide multiple feeds so don't pay for service however paid prior to my feeds for many years. For me its the ability to download scanner files and to look up certain data. So its all what you can get out of it. Prior to him hiding some of this stuff we had adds and everyone complained about that so he removed the adds and said pay to get certain items. For the cost of servers and everything it takes to host the RR Site, Forums, Databases, and Broadcastify I don't feel its unreasonable.

The software is still on Motorolas Website and available via myview and mol. You need to setup an account with Motorola. Alternative is take it to a shop and ask for it to be programmed.

How do you know you know its setup wrong ? NYC is a mess when it comes to GMRS. Not sure what "club" your looking for but sure there is a ham club somewhere there.

Yagi would be the best bet. But also the cable is important. Putting a yagi 40' in the air with RG58 doesn't help. You will need good cable to go with the Yagi.

I guess whats your expectation ? Many folks come on here and get all excited to put a repeater on the air and find out it covers 5 miles from home then get disappointed. Most large coverage repeaters are on high buildings, mountains and tower sites. If you have a 40' antenna at home don't expect miracles. The questions asked above will help diagnose an issue if there is one. What do you feel it should do ?

This is the way the radio is. For a CCR I'm not sure what your complaining about. Spend a few bucks more and get a better unit. They have to lock them down so they are finally doing what they should have done 10 years ago.

Although not in the rules it should be followed. Some follow the rules but some do not. My guess is he is trying to keep CCR/Pre defined radios off the repeater.

Yes he is looking for a file for the kenwood software. To my knowledge there is not one on this site. Just start typing. Its a commercial radio so it will never work with Chirp

Antenna Farm has multiple. Depends on the year. NMO specific Mount

What kind of truck ? There are model specific ones out there.

Adds are normally based on your browser history so.....

Talk to Demlarva Communications in New Castle. They are a MSI shop and should be able to diagnose the issue pretty quickly. There is also Magmum in Dover area but never dealt with them.

Do you know what the repeater is ? You shouldn't hear that but it sounds like there is delay on the repeater for some reason.

My opinion is its a CCR. You get what you pay for.

464.550 is used a lot by business's and your most likely either hearing DMR or some other stuff on the channels. I can't count the amount of "building" repeaters I saw back in my shop days all on 464.550. It is an Itinerant frequency which means any business can license it. I suspect a repeater causing your noise. Put a PL/DPL tone on it and skip over it.

Put CB on top and GMRS just below it on a stand off bracket. At my last house I had that setup for 15 years.

You need to login to the site also. Not just the forum. Unless your logged in your can see details.

Remember not all groups want other folks on their repeaters. This isn't ham radio. Some folks install repeaters for themselves only. I actually removed all my repeaters from this site for that exact reason. If its listed as open then send the request and wait. There are folks who come here, register a repeater and never come back. Thats part of the issue. Its been an issue for years. Others just are busy. I see messages here and there asking if my stuff is still online and I try to reply when i can to say its closed but life happens and I am sure many get lost in email land Just wanted to share a repeater owners aspect.

More power isn't going to increase gain for the most part. If you only have a 4 watt portable just changing the repeater to a 25 watt from 5 watt isn't going t increase range.

What repeater ? What Radios ? What antenna ? What feedline ? Normally by the time you buy feed line to get the distance you spent more than a cheap duplexer. If you are doing sperate antennas you will need as much vertical separation as you can get. Most dual antenna systems use filtering on the RX side of the system to notch out the TX frequency.

True but for home repeaters I dont see that being an issue. The issue is normally height at a home repeater. I have a SAR site in UHF that we do run into this about a mile from the site. Site is at 2500' and has a DB409 as TX. When dropping down the mountain you loose all RX from the site until you get off the hill. But the goal was to cover 25 miles to the north and there it works great.

Height is key. The taller your antenna the better.

@WRFP399 is the guy who has it.

As said the best bang for the buck is the RT97. Start with that and as you feel its used then upgrade. Buy a good feedline and decent antenna and it will work well. As said height is king. Get antenna as high as you can. Nice thing about the RT97 is it is waterproof so you can mount outside as long as you seal up the antenna connections. Putting it in an attic just below the antenna with a 6' feed line will work way better than 100' of LMR. @Borage257 There is another thread of a guy in Alaska who uses one on a pole with solar power. Think thats the one your looking for.