Oh boy, a new toy for me...

[LeoG]

Picked up the KG 1000G Plus to use as my base station to complement the repeater I have at my shop.  The repeater makes it fine into the house but sometimes the house has a hard time getting through the trees to the shop repeater.  Going from 20 to 50 watts is only a bit more than 3dB, but it seems to work from the repeater to the house.

I had already setup the CPS with my channels and only needed to read the radio and write back.  The CPS doesn't cover the A,B,C,D buttons so I'll have to do those manually.  Like the power button in that you don't need a long press to turn it on.  People complain about the screen brightness.  Not exactly screaming bright, but it's in a lighted shop and not in a dark vehicle.  Since I already have a KG XS20G I'm already pretty familiar in the way it should work.

Wife doesn't know yet.  I'll probably install it after she goes to bed and she'll see the new radio when she gets up.  LOL.  Hoping it might get rid of some of the off center DMR that I have in my area.  The XS20G lets it right through with the SOC receiver.  Hoping the Super Het might limit or eliminate it.

 

[Socalgmrs]

Compliment it with a high gain antenna 9,10,10 db gain and good coax and that 50w will radiate over 500watts.  Should cut through cover very well.  

[LeoG]

It will be paired with my current Comet 712EFC, so 9.8dBi gain.  60 feet of M&P Hyperflex 13 and 24 feet of Heliax 1/2" hardline past the lightning arrestor.  Eventually I'll get that same antenna on my repeater.  I've only had it for a year now.

[GrouserPad]

Nice choice on radio/coax/antenna. I really like those radios, only quirk is be aware if you set a background priority channel. Two of my 1000+ radios exhibited a faulty acting receive when  a priority channel was set. It seemed to create a cutout every so often. Also, I've been using the latest version of Chirp to program mine and it's been working awesome. The CPS software is good to but for some reason my computer settings make the cps text awful to read so everytime i use the cps I had to fiddle with the gridfont in the settings tab to make the text look decent.

[marcspaz]

Great choice! Congrats! 

[LeoG]

40 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

Nice choice on radio/coax/antenna. I really like those radios, only quirk is be aware if you set a background priority channel. Two of my 1000+ radios exhibited a faulty acting receive when  a priority channel was set. It seemed to create a cutout every so often. Also, I've been using the latest version of Chirp to program mine and it's been working awesome. The CPS software is good to but for some reason my computer settings make the cps text awful to read so everytime i use the cps I had to fiddle with the gridfont in the settings tab to make the text look decent.

Doesn't look like you can not have a priority channel.  There doesn't seem to be an off choice.

 

Photoshopped the end of the list to the right.

[GrouserPad]

Ok I see now, it was the PRIORITY SCAN(function 19) function that was causing me an intermittent receive cutout every 5 seconds or so when the radio would scan in the background for priority channel activity. This scan looks for whatever channel you select for the priority channel.

[WRYZ926]

I found out that the Icom IC-2730 will do the same thing if you have weather alerts turned on. The radio will scan the weather channels every few seconds and cuts out the channel you are listening to.

I've never turned on the priority scan feature on my KG-1000G and I made sure to turn the weather alerts off on the IC-2730.  

[LeoG]

Well I see that I have the priority scan off.  I normally don't use the scan function anyway.  But I have 3 repeaters that are in my area as well as my own.  Maybe I'll set one side up to scan the 3 channels since in different areas I use different repeaters and need to let the little lady know when I'm moving out of one area and into another.