WhiteOak

Please disregard my previous post, found the info in another members post. In great detail. thanks all

Question: First, thanks to all for your sharing on this forum. It makes this forum one of the best gmrs/repeater resources on the internet. I have just completed my repeater install of two KG1000G;s and have a programming cable on the way. Early range testing is promising. Twenty miles mobile to repeater with a very good reception at the repeater. My question, I've not seen a lot of info on the squelch tail function of the KG1000G repeater. Does anyone know which function puts a squelch tail on the repeaters transmit radio and any particulars about the setting? Any info is appreciated. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for that info. I'll look into that.

Excellent idea, I'll take a look at them. bill

n4gix, thanks I'll either send it off for tuning, or look for a better quality duplexer. bill

Thanks for the feedback everyone. On simplex my trans and receive is excellent from the base to mobile. And I regularly key a repeater about forty five miles to my west. The duplexer (DP-GMRS-50) came without documentation. I'm a newbie, trying to learn as much as I can about duplexers and repeaters and now wonder if I ran my radios into the wrong ports on the duplexer. I only tried it once and ran the transmit radio into the side marked "Low", and the receive radio into the side marked "High". Not knowing pass from reject, could I have plugged the duplexer in backwards? I've been unable to find any documentation on the XLT-50. The duplexer came pre-tuned to the center of the GMRS band (low 462.550-462.725 and high side 467.550-467.725). Not ideal but should do better than what I got. I'm still diggin' for info. Thanks again. Bill, WRMA851

I set up a repeater with my KG-1000's using an XLT-50 duplexer from BuyTwoWayRadios and the performance was not good. I used a Tram 1486 fed with 55ft of LMR400 with a height of about 50ft. The receive range was only a couple of miles. Thinking about two antennas and separating the two radios by extending the coupling cable that came with the radios. I would like to separate the radios by about 70ft or so. Each end of the house. Question, does anyone have any experience in such a situation, and if so, do you have any info on how far you can extend this connecting cable without affecting the performance of this repeater configuration? I'm thinking this would help greatly reduce the affects of desensing.