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I'm a newbie to GMRS and made a great connection with my local repeater guy and sent him a donation to keep it up. His repeater is not that busy but I want to add my own on my hill (mountain). No electric available, good solar view and need to hear how you guys did or would set up your repeater in waterproof Tupperware box... solar, battery, duplexing two radios (40 watts) with cables plus one antenna... Looking for low maintenance as I will not be going up the mountain that often... hard hike carrying equipment up the mountain. I should add the only one repeater in area and not a high traffic area and want to respect my new buddy repeater traffic and his history (friends etc). So I looked at RT97 https://shop.mygmrs.com/collections/featured-products/products/retevis-rt97-gmrs-repeater-5w and found out it is not as advertised being 10 watts. In fact I wanted 30-40 watts unit as using HT 4 watts. Thanks in advance for your help and if Admin needs to move this to another forum, great... Jack WRJX754