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I agree, if it’s using the “travel tone” you are likely okay to use. I would go ahead and ask someone who is on it about it. I did this once and was able to talk with the owner who told me about his repeater and now chat with him occasionally.

Okay I see what you were saying now. I misunderstood that you were mounted to a plastic roof, though I don't know how you would be reaching that far that way. Sorry for my confusion. I honestly don’t know if you would get better than what you got going already. I’ll leave that to those with more experience with antennas, ground planes and side by sides in this situation to add their two cents but it seems you are doing pretty good with it right now.

Hey @WRWI380 it is great to hear you have made some quick progress. A ground plane would certainly help. I am not sure what you would need to do to achieve that in your particular vehicle but I’m sure the info is out there. Perhaps a wire going from the mount to chassis or if you could mount directly to the roll cage. They do have antennas that don’t require a ground plane but from what I can gather you are better off if you can get a ground plane. I’m just throwing stuff out there without knowing what the situation actually is for the side by side. You must be doing something right to reach it from where you are so you are on the right track. Anyway very cool and thanks for letting us know about the success. ?

I think you’re fine, it’s anybody’s guess what all that was about. Some people ?

Sorry @WRUT935 I'm no help here. I checked Chirp and don't see the KG-XS20G ?

What do you use to program your radios? If you are using Chirp it an easy copy and paste and I use it all the time.

I don’t have an aversion to diving into the actual regs but this is very clear, basic and well laid out and I feel this would be great to hand to someone with no knowledge of the service as well as great reference material. Nice job and thanks for the download.

@davidotoole I don't know about working with android but have you seen the Garmin Rino 750 ? It's Gmrs, GPS and camera all rolled into one. Not cheap though. and I am not sure if it does repeaters. At any rate they have a lot of GPS devices, maybe you'll find something ideal there.

There is a good chance you were hearing Capilla Peak 600. It’s higher ground than you so you may very well reach it. It appears to be open. Go to the map page https://mygmrs.com/map , you will need to join and sign in as this is a separate site from the forums. Then select your area. Once signed in you can access information. Click on a repeater on the map and you will find info about that repeater and if you need permission to obtain the tones to access the repeater or not. The gear in the upper left corner of the map will allow you to select to see stale and off line repeaters as well. If you decide to save some repeaters on the site be sure to save to favorites, NOT “myrepeaters” as that would be saying you own them. Do some research here about adding tones to your radio and read up on it in your radio’s manual to get a bit of understanding and then ask some questions here and you’ll get answers but basically think of tones as keys. The TX tone on your radio will open the receive on the repeater. The RX keeps out anything but the transmission from the repeater (this is optional and if you leave RX off you will hear everything on that channel). If I over explained anything I mean no disrespect. Not knowing your level of understanding. Good luck.

In the last three weeks alone there have been at least three people who have added repeaters as theirs that aren’t their repeaters such as this here And this one you didn’t mention if you tried to switch it over to you. Nice pictures, they don’t change the issue at hand though.

It’s not just repeaters, by leaving the rx tones off you will hear everything on that frequency including simplex which can be useful to make sure you’re not stepping on someone else when you key up.

Well that felt odd, I reported myself ?! I mean I must be stopped, oh wait that’s not why I did it. Here’s hoping that it helps. ?

I was not aware of that, I will now. Thanks @Sshannon.

I believe everything gets posted the same only under new ownership which of course it isn’t. One poster here recently realized his mistake when people started sending him requests for access. Since it’s on the map site and not the forum there doesn’t seem to be a way to let the person know they did this other than using the request form. I looked and he doesn’t appear to be on the forum site yet. At least here you could send a message. It looks like his page is claiming eight repeaters in Indiana. A monumental feat for having a license for two weeks ?. Rich ( @rdunajewski ) has to be seeing that this is a problem by now I would think.

It is getting ridiculous how often this happens.

I really liked the 771G but for this reason I swapped it out for the 701G and have been very happy with the 701G. So much so that I now have four of them. It isn’t quite as good as the 771 but pretty darn close and close enough was good enough for me to not be smacking the computer screen every time I took it into my office or putting an eye out. I really found the 771 to be a pain to hike with too. I keep the 771 handy if I need it but it’s 701G for me.

Looking over the passive repeater pdf from @Lscott I had a moment of recollection, I have worked on radio, cell and television towers on many occasions as an electrician but on the power side of things and I suddenly remember seeing one of these passive repeater panels. I never knew it’s purpose. Very cool to finally know the story. As a side note I loved going to these locations, I would take photos from some ridge with a lake below or some such scenery text it to my brother with the caption “my office today”.

This blows my mind, a picture truly is worth a thousand words. Thanks for sharing. @Lscott I can always count on extra reading material from you sir. Many thanks

I am completely intrigued by this post. Here’s why, last Thursday the wife, dog and I took a walk around a nearby lake to see the water level (at this moment at 98%) and I was able to break the squelch on the local repeater using my KG-935+. With the wife moving ahead and the dog dragging me along I didn’t have an opportunity to stick around the spot I was at to try and make a contact and it has baffled me ever since. There is no way I thought I could hit that repeater from my location. I was back in the canyon when I did this. I tried again when we got back to the truck by the lake but no luck which didn’t surprise me. I’m looking forward to going back and trying this again. The only other thing I could think of was I hit a non listed repeater back there with the same tones and frequency but that seems almost as unlikely.

Sounds like a use case for MURS, like Walmart. License free not much traffic on it.

You said you used to be able to hear this repeater so something changed. It may be that you programmed in the wrong RX tone or that the repeater has changed their tones. @Sshannon explains well the reason to leave the RX tones off when diagnosing an issue with receiving. Now you can check to see if you are accessing the repeater and you will be able to tell having eliminated the RX problem by turning RX off. Based on the RX tone not being correct as you now know it’s possible your TX is wrong also but now you can diagnose that separately.

I agree with @BoxCar turn the tone off on RX. You can check if you are receiving on 21 also as it’s the same frequency without tones.

Well I think this settles the argument (at least in this case) of the design lacking some intuitiveness in the adding of repeaters to a favorite list. It shouldn’t be this easy to make the mistake. @Sshannon is right, don’t blame yourself. You did what you could to make it right. I thinks it needs to be fixed either by the owner or @rdunajewski . Perhaps this will bring about some change and spare anyone else having to deal with this issue.

Under the heading of “my repeaters” if you added these as “my listings” the site thinks they are yours. They should be added as “my favorites”. I agree with this. It should not be this easy to add someone else’s repeaters as yours.

I use an HT so I can take it to another room… you know if I see that it’s bothering my wife ? However to your idea, one thing I would like if it were me is a way to easily see the radio display and controls. Either with a radio that has it in the mic like the Midland MXT575 or some creative use of remotely mounted display like the KG-1000 plus. I also would love to see what you come up with. Please share photos if you go through with this.