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kmcdonaugh

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  1. Usually if you just tag @rdunajewski he will get it removed within a few days. Not too many admins here and people lives to live. Give them some time.
  2. Flintrock Hill repeater in the Austin, Tx area easily has the most coverage, I've personally hit it 40 miles away and other people have claimed to hit it up to 60 miles
  3. Wait until you find out how much your cell phone is spying on you
  4. I literally read this entire thread purely for its entertainment value.
  5. Are you within range of a linked repeater? Keep in mind not all repeaters are linked
  6. I would tune it to 465 MHZ, which means cutting it to the following lengths. L1 needs to be trimmed to 15 3/8 inches L2 needs to be trimmed to 9 13/16 inches However, do not try and trim down to the specified length at once. (Trust me I know, I screwed this up once), Cut a little bit off at a time toward the desired length. After cutting L1 and L2 a little bit each time, re-attach them and measure the SWR again, and then cut again, etc. You will slowly see the SWR starting to come down. The reason for doing this is to not accidentally cut it too short, in which case there is nothing you can do. Side Note: You can get a really good SWR, DO NOT try to get a perfect 1 SWR. Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? No. Most people consider any SWR lower than 2 as a " good" SWR. Me personally, I try to get it close to 1.5. Also having said this, do not do it immediately! Some one else in this forum may have a better way than I know of. There is a wealth of knowledge here!
  7. This is the correct answer. If you have a long enough cable between the receiver and the transmitter, you may be able to get away with it, but having said that, if you are using a short cable to connect the two, due to most radios having very poor shielding, your transmitter will most likely drown out your receiver, and you will get very poor results.
  8. Mygmrs.com and forums.mygmrs.com are two separate websites with two different log ins. If you log in to forums.mygmrs.com and then go back to the maps on mygmrs.com, you are still not logged in to mygmrs.com. It gets confusing the way it is set up. In order to see the tones, you will have to have an account and log in to "mygmrs.com" NOT forums.mygmrs.com.
  9. The only linked repeaters I know of are in San Antonio and Houston. Houston is the mygmrs linked network and San Antonio is the Alamo linked network. So even those two cities are not on the same network. Side note: There is one linked repeater on the mygmrs network in Mexia, Tx.
  10. I actually already have a pi 3 model B that I haven't used for anything. I tried to get a node number and password to link my repeater, but haven't heard anything yet
  11. If the repeater owner does not log in and "update" the repeaters after 365 days, the repeaters go in to "stale" status. In order for them to show up on the map in "stale" status is to go to settings (gear icon), and turn on "show stale repeaters"
  12. A better question is if they will ever get the linked repeater package back in stock or even just the SD cards
  13. Cell phone towers, specifically new 5G towers. Probably still has 4G as well. But 5G has much higher bandwidth, but does not have as much range
  14. Nice! That is good. I'll have to look up what firmware version was running on the UV5R for the guy who said it wouldn't work anymore when he tried it.
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