"Reverse Split" programming

[AdmiralCochrane]

It occured to me while programming my programmable radios that if you programmed a channel to both receive and transmit on a repeater's input you would be able to hear a nearby transmitter and determine if it was close enough for simplex or not and instantly respond on the repeater with the results.

 

I decided this was practical on most GMRS radios because we would already have the repeater output as a simplex channel and another memory channel for repeater use and a full spilt wasn't really needed. 

 

If you programmed them in succesively as 15, 15r, and 15s you could easly flip back and forth. 

[mbrun]

That is a good idea for those radios without that capability.

 

If I were doing that, I would configure the split channel as a Rx only channel so as to avoid its accidental use as a simplex channel which would/could interfere with repeater operations. I would also configure it without tone so nothing would be blocked.

 

Michael

WRHS965

KE8PLM

 

 

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[AdmiralCochrane]

Valid considerations, but I decided I wanted the ability to jump into the repeater momentarily if I thought simplex would be too weak.  Repeater traffic in my area is very sparse and infrequent; its exciting to hear one contact per week.