MarkInTampa

If you can see bars but no audio, you have the TX tone set right. Does your radio have a RX tone set and is it correct? Try disabling RX tone (if set) and check to see if you are getting a audible kerchunk.

Hit up Tim at BCI communications in Tampa (I-75 and MLK). He's not to far from you and has a bunch of Rohn tower sections and stuff for sale at a fair price in decent condition. His eBay name is twowaytech if you want to look him up.

Hi Greg, long time no hear! When I first setup my base station a few years ago there was a really decent band opening here in the Tampa Bay area. Me and another somewhat local on the other side of the bay (that would have been YOU!) were hopping all around the state on GMRS. I was feeling pretty pumped about how the new base was doing until I found out you were using a HT outside your car port. It deflated my ego just a bit. I learned a lesson, when the band is open it doesn't matter your equipment you can get may miles. My personal best is Tampa to both the Valdosta Ga repeaters - around 210 miles, but its only happened one night in three years.

You could try to use ARTEMIS Offline Signal Identification to identify it. Download at ARTEMIS Download . Set a filter to 462MHz to listen to signal samples known (76 at the moment) to be available in the band, click through them and listen to the audio sample and hopefully you will find a match. Listen in particular to the samples of the obvious choices first - NXDN, DMR, P25, Motorola. Ignore obvious ones that are not relevant in the US like NMT, PAL, RTS-9TS, etc. Here's a Techminds video of how to use ARTEMIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_8Y_4FvoHI

Saw those the other day. Pretty dang cool. About the only DMR/Analog HT I've seen that does cool analog stuff I've been missing in HT's like my MD-380. Things like tone scan, add/remove channels on the radio without a PC, etc. It's almost like a standard analog radio with all the analog features one would want that does DMR instead of a DMR radio that can do basic pre-programmed analog but with no real analog features.

I was not able to hit the Bushnell repeater from the Beef's parking lot Friday night for what it's worth.

PMR (Professional Mobile Radio) is basically the European version of LMR

Not for real. On map view it shows he has 15 repeaters at one location. Most of them do exist but are not his, are 85+ miles (Okeechobee 550 and Fort Drum 650 at least that I've been known to use) away from the location he lists and already exist on the MyGMRS map with proper locations and the real owner names.

Try disabling tone on the repeater input. At least it will rule out incompatibility of the tone settings between the radio and repeater.

It is, or at least the backlight timer is! Menu setting 8 (labeled ABR - don't know why) is the Display Backlight Timer. If set to 0 backlight is off. Setting are 0-50 seconds, make sure this setting is not at 0.

You are around 4 miles from one of the strongest repeaters in the area on 462.675Mhz with a 50 mile radius. I used to be able to hit it from Pensacola on occasion. Channel 6 is only 12.5kHz away (462.6875Mhz). If the repeater is running wide band, running slightly off frequency, your receive is off or sensitivity/selectivity sucks, etc.. it could sneak through. Is the id the same as the repeater on 462.675?

I did a server upgrade for a Dentist years ago. After installing the server, software and transferring data everything worked fine EXCEPT the way the teeth are counted/labeled was all wrong. I called customer support and found out that Dentists in England label teeth differently than those in the USA. The fix was to change the default installed language option from "English" to "American".

I know Goldstone very well. My dad was worked there for 35 years and was the head of R&D for the DSN (Deep Space Network). I loved going to work with the old man as a kid!

Fort Irwin is kinda limited on what they can do radio wise. Lot's of restrictions because of the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex being adjacent to the base.

Why not? I was wanting to do the same thing on the base station. If I'm sitting at my PC with speakers on ether side of my monitor for the computer, it would be nice to route/mix the radio output to those same speakers. Back to the OP: The -V2 should have came with a RJ-45 accessory/breakout cable. You can change the speaker output settings in the menu to "EAR" (earphones) or "EAR+SP" and run a 2.5mm patch cable to the audio input/mic jack of the PC and you should be fine.