You just got your GMRS license, now you want your own repeater?

[Ian]

On 3/19/2019 at 10:51 PM, Ian said:

Ultimately, my goal with a garage repeater is essentially a chunky base station radio with a pocket-sized "terminal".  But I live in a coverage gap between all the repeaters in the area.  When conditions are good, I can occasionally hear one ID.  95% of the time, I hear nothing from them; 100% of the time, I can't open them up.

 

I think there's a role for the garage repeater, but that role goes away if there's preexisting good coverage.

Six years down the line, and there's good repeater coverage in central Florida.  As suspected, a 50w mobile with a bluetooth hand-mic has scratched one itch, and having repeater coverage at home has eliminated the desire to roll my own, even now that the RT97L makes operating a genuinely nice repeater technically trivial and generally affordable.  

 

Wouldn't have thought of this, but someone reacted to it recently.