Wildzebra

I'm lucky enough to have dual channel, that said my secondary is on Simple Ch 19 as well. Taking over GMRS one licensee at a time

Hang on, hang on, hang on, HANG ON! It is very clear to anybody who is watching that I, me, I, aka not someone else, is his favorite viewer. I think we need someone to adjudicate this ruling, and as i'm the one who bought up that adjudication is required, I will be appointing myself to the role. Phew, glad we got that sorted Adam p.s - the official travel channel for GMRS in CH 19, no tone. #neverforget

Ok team, I have solved the issue - and along the way learnt a great deal about how PL/CTCSS/DCS/etc tones work. That said, before I get started I wanted to shout out to @wayoverthere @BoxCar @wrci350 and @Screech for all the suggestions, followups, ideas and collectively all the information that I needed to get this one solved. With that said, while I now understand it all, and I got it to work, I also realize that while it's easy in my head, it's hard to write down - i'm going to give it a try though so maybe someone stumbles across this one day and it helps them out. So through my journey I found out a few things: There are actually two repeaters on the 462.55/467.55 frequency that are relatively close to where I am located - one uses input tone 131.4 no output tone, the second uses input and output tone of 241.8 When i've been testing what has been suggested in this thread, I did have a variable that I hadn't thought to share/I didn't think mattered. I've had the van parked in different spots - and while those spots have been less than 20ft away, that's been the difference between hitting both repeaters clear as day vs barely at all. I've done this several times, it's quite consistent. So my solution is Setup two channels, each using their own output tones and both using no input tone. Set one of the two channels as my secondary channel on the KG1000 - I keep the primary channel on for my simplex comms with my friends When I receive a transmission I will return transmit on the frequency i've got set as my secondary - if i'm heard, awesome - If i'm not I quickly switch to the other channel and that inevitably gets through without an issue. What did I learn? Having no PL/privacy/CTCSS/DCS tone on the receive side means you hear everything on that frequency (I did not know this!) Line of sight/obstacles do and will have an impact to your transmissions I'm somewhat lucky that I have two overlapping repeaters that effectively extend my transmission range Hopefully this explains it all and clarifies the combination of items that happened. Adam tl;dr - radio works fine, user needed to better understand radio theory

Sorry for such a long time to reply - and thanks to all that did - I got knocked out pretty hard with the 'rona* and haven't been doing much of anything. Unfortuantely I have still not made progress with this particular repeater, though I have had sucess setting up simplex and other repeaters on both my HT and KG-1000G without an issue - so i'm thinking it's just the repeater itself What repeater are you trying to access and what settings do you have. If you have a screenshot, add it here and i'll take a look at it and help where I can.

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I am certainly a few feet away - and now that you say it, it makes perfect sense! Time to get in the truck and have the wife at home with the HT

First, thanks for all the replies here - greatly appreciated Tests i've run Reversed the TX[1] and RX[2] (using the tone on both) on the HT and was able to get comms going in both directions I also did the same test but with the tones off - works fine. So if my (somewhat hazy) logic is correct, we're now talking about the repeater potentially being an issue, correct? I've got some other info but i'll start at the start and see next things I can investigate Adam [1] Set RX on the HT to 467 [2] Set TX on the HT to 462

Thanks for this - from what i'm seeing it's saying it has both an input and output tone? https://mygmrs.com/repeater/4914 (if i'm mis-reading this, sincerely, let me know - i'm pulling my hair out here and might be missing the blatantly obvious) Adam

Evening all - before I start if this has already been answered or there is somewhere I can self-serve an answer, please point me there. I did search but have come up empty. I'm trying to connect to this repeater with no success when sending transmissions. Using the RT systems software I have set the channel up as: RX: 462.55000 TX: 467.55000 Offset freq: 5.00 Mhz Offset direction: Plus Operating mode: FM Tone mode: T SQL CTCSS: 241.8 RX CTCSS: 241.8 TX Power: High Problem: When transmitting from my KG-1000G it is not received on other radios. (RX works fine, see below) Testing i've done: I programmed my 10w handheld (Retevis RT1), with the same config as above in and when I transmit on the HT it comes through clearly on my KG-1000G I created a simplex channel on both my HT and Woxun using the same 241.8 CTCSS code for TX and RX - it works perfectly in both directions This unit was installed today and was a swap of the radio only as it's replacing an existing Midland MXT400. As an FYI, the Midland connected to and communicated regularly on this repeater - and when eyeballing the config files of both radios they look identical to me. So, i'm stumped. Two other radios TX and RX to the repeater just fine, and while it will RX it apparently does not TX. Any help greatly appreciated - i've been staring at this thing for far too many hours (hence it's nearly midnight) and i'm no closer to solving this. Adam