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Great point. Find out if you can if the repeaters have a backup power source. A repeater is no good in a grid down situation if there is no battery/generator backup.

Thanks you for the responses guys. I will give it a try.

Hello all, I have been trying to access some local repeaters here in my area (MI). I have a Midland MXT115, a Motorola MS350R, and a Baofeng UV-5X. I have confirmed that all my PL tones are correct and the freq offsets are correct as well. I haven't received any responses to my radio checks so I tried to radio check myself by having multiple radios with me (usually in the truck) to monitor my transmission. The problem is when I key up any one of those radios I don't get any voice transmissions on my other radios that are monitoring. When I let got of the PTT I do hear the squelch tail on all the radios, but no voice when PTT is pressed. I'm wondering if because of the close proximity of the radios that the transmit freq is "masking" any reception from the receive freq. IE transmit freq would be 467.550 and receive is 462.550. Is this a possible cause of my lack of success with these repeaters? Thanks in advance.