Repeater connection problem!!!

[WSFM218]

So I have a Baofeng UV-5G Plus and a TidRadio H8. I'm having serious problems hitting a local repeater near me. The repeater is JoshRadio; I entered the tone listed and even drove within a mile of the repeater but no one can hear my transmission! Can someone please help me troubleshoot this problem? Maybe I missing it! Please HELP!!!

[UncleYoda]

One other thought... Chirp has a Settings tab at the top.  And several pages listed on the left.  If certain important settings are wrong there, it can block transmit.

[WRKC935]

Does the radio work on other repeaters?  That is as good as a watt meter for testing if the repeaters are similar distances away or the one that does work is farther.

 

[WSEN940]

I posted on another thread about how to test your radio for this exact scenario. link below.

As you have two radio's you can do a very simple test to make sure that you are able to transmit/receive correctly. This is a good way to get to know the radios and the software and have a controlled test bed to work from. In effect, you are independently checking the two halves of the repeater equation. Now, if this test passes, then you can bet your bottom dollar that the tone for the repeater is wrong, or, you are just not reaching it. Although the latter, in your case is not the issue if your sitting so close you can feel the radio waves (joking of course)

Radio Check for Repeaters

[WSEN940]

And for follow up. I created two .csv files for anyone who wants to do the radio check I laid out. I have both the UV 5G plus and a TD-H3 so I built a test code plug that you can load into chirp to use. Obviously as they are the CSV files, you can use them for any radio as I note you have the TDH8.

Set the UV5G to have channel 1 on the top line and channel 2 on the bottom line. Transmit on the TD and you should see the top line receive work.

A/B the UV5G to the bottom line and transmit. The TD should then light up. 

If this works...the radio is fine. 

As noted elsewhere. You do not need the tone squelch on receive for a repeater, you just need it's input or TONE frequency. I did this test with the Tone Squelch enabled. 

repeater check td.csv repeater check uv.csv