[KG-1000's as a repeater]

On 8/22/2021 at 1:59 PM, WhiteOak said:

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 am working on a similar build with the same duplexer tuned by John at twowayradios.  Tested it at 20ft up and I get about 600 yards.  After 600 yards it is completely static then nothing come through.  It was doing this same thing before I got the duplexer tuned (Didn't know I needed it tuned) and called twowayradios and they said send it to John to get tuned. However, now that I have the tuned duplexer the problem remains. I live in a fairly flat area and can get 2 miles on my handheld in the same area.  Also sometimes the kg1000 will show a green transmit light after I have transmitted a couple times.  Do I need to adjust dwell time?  Is there something wrong with the duplexer or power source?  Any help would be great.

Coronamoto

WRPQ909