Hello, I have a question about programming my radio to specific repeaters in my area instead of using just the preprogrammed repeaters. So here’s the deal, I have followed Notarubicon’s work for a while and he got me into GMRS. I’ve had a CB radio for years and now and I’m excited to get into a new hobby. I plan on buying the Midland MXT575 in the near future as well.
I have followed the instructions to the letter and I still don’t know what I’m doing wrong because I can’t hit a repeater. Preprogrammed or not. I have the freq set on 462.675. The TX tone is set to 123 Hz. I have tried the RX tone on the same 123 Hz but apparently not a lot of repeaters use that. I didn’t mess with the offset or freq shift since that seems to be for HAM. I have programmed 462.675 and 467.675 into the memory (as shown in the second video), this is on channel 5 and 28 by the way. I have also tried this same thing on channel 127 another time. And yes I am doing this from the keypad on the radio and not through Chirp.
The bottom line is this, when I try to key up on these channels that I have tried to set to a repeater, it won’t even key up. It doesn’t show the radio is transmitting at all, the screen doesn’t turn Orange indicating I am transmitting, nothing. But if I go up or down a channel, it begins transmitting normally when I press the PTT. I have occasionally gotten traffic on the programmed channels when people have been on, which I thought was interesting since I can’t transmit. Needless to say, I am stumped. I have followed the instructions completely step by step in both videos but there must still be something I am missing or doing wrong or maybe they are faulty radios? I have two of them and they both do the same thing. So if anyone one out there can help me with this issue, I would be forever grateful.
I haven’t been able to make contact with anyone through these radios yet and it has been discouraging to say the least. And yes I fully blame you, Notarubicon, for getting me into this mess. And yes I know you’re reading this because you’ve told me I am your favorite viewer. I appreciate you noticing me by the way.
(I’m -mostly- kidding for those who have trouble reading between the lines).
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Hello, I have a question about programming my radio to specific repeaters in my area instead of using just the preprogrammed repeaters. So here’s the deal, I have followed Notarubicon’s work for a while and he got me into GMRS. I’ve had a CB radio for years and now and I’m excited to get into a new hobby. I plan on buying the Midland MXT575 in the near future as well.
I have followed the instructions to the letter and I still don’t know what I’m doing wrong because I can’t hit a repeater. Preprogrammed or not. I have the freq set on 462.675. The TX tone is set to 123 Hz. I have tried the RX tone on the same 123 Hz but apparently not a lot of repeaters use that. I didn’t mess with the offset or freq shift since that seems to be for HAM. I have programmed 462.675 and 467.675 into the memory (as shown in the second video), this is on channel 5 and 28 by the way. I have also tried this same thing on channel 127 another time. And yes I am doing this from the keypad on the radio and not through Chirp.
The bottom line is this, when I try to key up on these channels that I have tried to set to a repeater, it won’t even key up. It doesn’t show the radio is transmitting at all, the screen doesn’t turn Orange indicating I am transmitting, nothing. But if I go up or down a channel, it begins transmitting normally when I press the PTT. I have occasionally gotten traffic on the programmed channels when people have been on, which I thought was interesting since I can’t transmit. Needless to say, I am stumped. I have followed the instructions completely step by step in both videos but there must still be something I am missing or doing wrong or maybe they are faulty radios? I have two of them and they both do the same thing. So if anyone one out there can help me with this issue, I would be forever grateful.
I haven’t been able to make contact with anyone through these radios yet and it has been discouraging to say the least. And yes I fully blame you, Notarubicon, for getting me into this mess. And yes I know you’re reading this because you’ve told me I am your favorite viewer. I appreciate you noticing me by the way.
(I’m -mostly- kidding for those who have trouble reading between the lines).
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