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  1. Realizing now that the actual issue I was having was that I had the Baofeng too close to my transmitter when I was testing. Since the Kenwood puts out 50 watts, it must have been blocking the signal for the receiving freq. on the repeater. I had my friend stand about 50 feet away while I was in my car in the same spot and it worked fine. Do you think I need to adjust any settings on the Kenwood? I have it on narrowband... I'm new to all this stuff.
  2. I had set up the offset on the Beofeng so it does not try to receive on the transmitting channel, I realized quickly the dual band was going to mess things up a little bit (I was being a noob). What I realized the problem was is that the repeater will not repeat the signal unless the signal is high enough, but will still respond with a "beep" after I transmit. I moved about a mile closer to the repeater and was able to get much better results, originally I was about 17 miles away (straight line) from the repeater. I suppose I need to break down and buy a SWR meter and get this thing tuned a little better (since this 5w Beofeng could do it in the original location .-.) This repeater goes VERY far once I got it working better. I went about 34 miles from my house (straight line and obviously on the other side of the repeater) and was still able to get a clear signal back. I have never heard of GMRS going that far even with a repeater.. that thing has to be a thousand feet high! I appreciate the response!
  3. Hey guys I'm just getting into GMRS and recently purchased a Kenwood TK-8150. Originally I was going to just use simplex but I was actually able to find a repeater. I'm having a couple issues connecting to the repeater. I have two radios setup, one being the Kenwood TK-8150 and the other being a Baofeng UV-5R. I set both of them up (I think) with the PL tones and I can hear the Baofeng on the Kenwood but not vice versa. If i talk into the Kenwood I hear nothing on the Baofeng and then as soon as I release the PTT i hear static and the "beep" from the repeater. So the repeater hears me but for some reason my voice isn't going through? I am a little confused by the software for the Kenwood. To set the PL tones I set the QT/DQT Dec and Enc to the PL tone for the repeater, is there anything else I have to do? I read online that QT/DQT is the same as PL/CTCSS. Do I need to set the "Opt Signal" option? It shows DTMF, 2-tone, and "Fleetsync" which I don't know what any of these are... Any help would be much appreciated! Sorry if my terminology is lacking, I've only been into GMRS for a couple weeks.
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