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Or really go for cool points, an apx7500 V/U dual head...

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When I got into building repeaters this year, I wanted a "good" wattmeter. I picked up a used Telewave 44a. It's a much older unit, and its calibration date is way back in the late 90's. Since there was a discussion about higher tier wattmeters recently perhaps some of you will be looking for the Bird or Telewave meters. Since most all of these in the used market are probably out of calibration, where would you send the meter for calibration? I really don't need it traceable to NIST, but that may be the only option.

Just a thought coming from a catv/broadband feedline environment, we use a glue lined thermal shrink tube and apply with a torch. I have repaired moisture damaged passives that were "weatherproofed" years ago with self fusing splicing tape. Often we would have to cut a foot or more of water damaged cable. I understand my environment is somewhat different. Those of you with "radio shop" experience, what's your thoughts?

And a u-turn on the fine trimmed lawn....

I would suspect the close proximity to the Jeep's body as reflecting the rf power back into the antenna/coax. You could try a different mount in another location to test.

Don't forget to contact the repeater's owner for permission. Is that in Herndon, Virginia?

I have a pair of Moto xpr4350's, a quality set of jumpers, cheap controller, Telewave duplexer, 50ish feet of Andrew 1/2" hardline, and a Laird 5 db fiberglass antenna at 20 feet. Covers the neighborhood well, and good for about 3 miles.

Thanks for posting your saga. It will be helpful for others in the future with their future repeater endeavors. Are there some amateur radio operators that you could reach out to? One or some them might have the level of test gear needed to troubleshoot and get the system where it should be. There is a YouTube video I'm following that has the same issue, is that yours?

They use many of the same accessories as the XTS series, batteries included. I had a 900 MHz version, and it was pretty hard on batteries. I seem to hear it was private labeled for E F Johnson by Moto for a government contract. Of course, that may have been an urban radio myth....

I had heard of a DMR repeater or repeaters being licensed as experimental on GMRS years ago. The FCC addressed digital modes for Part 95 A about the same time frame as using Part 90 radios. Their thoughts at the time were that the existing radios allowed were meeting the needs of the general public. I also feel that digital modulation would benefit the public, although the 900 MHz FHSS radios would fill this purpose. It would be nice to be able to have repeaters capable of digital available for GMRS.

Thank you, I've got a Motorola PM400, and while its obviously not FPP, it does have the ability to change the transmit and receive PL as desired as a menu item. I thought maybe the 7550 and 5550 series may have that as a menu item as well.

Corey, I see your using, the XPR series, how do change the PL on the fly? Or would you still have to put it on the computer.