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Accessing Repeaters


lnelson007

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They were local to Sarasota, Florida: 462.600 (141.3 tone -gmrs repeater 17/channel 25),  462.650 (103.5 tone -gmrs repeater 19/channel 19 ).  Also tried the Sarasota Amateur Radio Club directly at 146.910 (tone 100.0).  At this point Michael I would take anything just to hear that it’s working properly. Thanks for responding. 

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Use Tones for transmitting only for now; turn off all receiving tones

Be sure CHIRP is set to HIGH power for these two repeaters.

If you are not transmitting on the Ham radio 2 meter frequency, turn off the tone (How do you enter this frequency? Is there a VFO mode?)

Does it look like this:

 

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Haven’t installed chirp yet (have a Mac so initially I wasn’t sure chirp would work because of Apple security). I have now ordered the cable.  Sounds like that might help. (I should receive cable over the next week). I’ll give chirp a shot and if not resolved, will get back to this board. Thanks again. 

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Update: Programming Cable received and chirp software loaded! Once I bypassed Apple security (which the instructions clearly addressed), loading Chirp on Mac was pretty straight forward using the instructions from BlueMax49ers and their chirp link. Uploading it to my Btech V1 was also easy. I have now heard from at least 2 of the repeaters I entered. One was GMRS so I was able to talk. The other was VHF so I was able to listen. Just good to know I’m making some progress although there is still a lot to learn, even with GMRS. It’s clear BlueMax49ers was/is the way to go. Mark sent me a note and assured me he was also available to assist if any problems. I told him of the sites informal approval of my choice and his apparent positive reputation! ?
 

One question: I actually have 2 Btechs V1s (one for my wife). I’m hoping I can now just connect the second one and upload to that device the same data. Just wondering if software will recognize that it’s a new device and require something more complicated. Otherwise, I think I am on my way.

I’ve  heard and read a lot about how supportive this community is. I appreciate all of your responses, (most especially you Michael). As I learn, I hope to be able to pay it forward. Thanks. ?

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When I've programmed two or more radios of the same type, I've had success just unplugging the programming cable from one, then plugging it into the other one. I then read from the second radio just for good measure, then upload the same file to it that I uploaded to the first radio. I can't think of a time that did not work for me.

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2 hours ago, wrci350 said:

It should be just that easy.  Plug the cable into the second radio and send the data to it.

This. Nearly everything I've dealt with, radio wise, the cable is what the computer recognizes, so it won't notice the switch.

The one deviation has been a radioddity gd73 (ham dmr radio), but that takes a box-standard micro usb.

I also have nothing but praise for the bluemax49ers products. Zero problems with any of them, across 4 different models, one said not to work with anything but the manufacturer cables.

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