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Do any of you use an HT in your house with a mobile attached to a base antenna in your detached garage set on cross band repeat? I'm trying to think of a way to keep the antenna off my house yet still be able to access area repeaters or talk simplex. Will this work?

I see there's a section called, specialized mobile radio system in the 800-900 mhz band. Is this where I'm learning of a license holder (not sure if it's LMR license) providing digital radio service to subscribers that pay a fee to use their system repeater?

How is it to program for both analog and digital? Is the cps confusing? I've read you have to unlock it when you get it? Do you use the vehicle Bluetooth with it or that separate Bluetooth device and store the radio remotely?

I'm starting to find interest in this radio as it's DMR and analog tri band. Does anyone have this radio? Could it be used with an LMR license to transmit using AES256? Just hoping to learn from those with experience using this radio.

So I'm curious about the encryption part of this, specifially AES256. If using encryption on HTs would the repeater need to be encryption capable or does the encryption simply pass through the repeater so any DMR repeater would work, or does the repeater need to be AES256 capable? Does the encryption happen on the transmitting and receiving radios only?

I can always change out the bottom section with a shorter 7 foot section and see if the antenna performs just as well, i just thought the extra 3 feet would be a good thing. I like the idea of not guying the mast but it sounds dangerous and unwise not to do so. What, specifically do you use for guy wires? Do you anchor the wires to the edges of the roof near the gutters on the one side of the building and the roof peak on the opposite side of the building? I like the one guys idea of the telescoping mast that did well without guying. Will have to look into that.

Something like this? Or not sturdy enough https://servicefirstproducts.com/products/25-freedom-edition-telescoping-pole-black

I just put up a Laird Antenna on about 20 feet of chain link fence top rail (2 pieces). We had 27 mph winds today and i noticed a bit of sway in the upper pipe. Am I up too high above that upper bracket mounted to the building? I'd think ice & snow will make that sway worse. 20241121_122551.mp4

Question for those with Laird FG series antennas. It says not to block the drain holes on the bottom of the antenna near the connection. How do you wrap the coax/antenna connection when it's so close to the antenna? Just wrap right up to the base of the antenna? Originally I was going to wrap with waterproof tape up into the bottom of the antenna but that would block the drain holes. What do others do?

So many choices, thanks for the help! Now to get my waterproofing tapes for the connection at the antenna.

Thanks. I was looking at Gigaparts M&P but all I saw were PL-259 connections. Much appreciated!

So this is N- female on the antenna as well? If so I need coax with 2 N male ends right?

Am I correct that this is an N-type male connector on the repeater?

OK rookie question. I have this adapter on the back of my Vertex vxr-7000 repeater. I plan to get new coax, likely M&P ultraflex 10. Is it better to remove the adapter and have N connections on both ends of the coax to minimize loss or at 30 - 50 foot coax length will it matter?

I'm such a rookie. Figured out the problem. I didn't push the repeater button in on the Vertex so it was running in base mode. Putting out 33.8 watts with an SWR of 1.5 and transmit % of 95.98% on the temporary antenna. It's tuned for 462.625 and meter shows 462.623. Thanks for the help!