My guess is I am having a desense issue, but I'm not 100 percent sure.
The repeater works fine until I am about 1 mile away from the antenna site. Once outside of this area the audio from the mobile units stops getting through to the repeater. I know we are still reaching the repeater because we receive the squelch tail after attempting to transmit. The station ID from the controller can be heard loud and clear within a 3 town radius, so I know we are getting good coverage from the transmitter side of the repeater.
The duplexer has been tuned, we are using the proper jumpers for the duplexer, we are running 70 feet of 3/8" superflex andrew heliax. Brand new Comet antenna, etc. etc.
The only possibility I can seem to find through searching the internet is that there may be a bad jumper at the duplexer.
This setup was running at another site with no issues. The only thing that has changed is the feed line and the antenna.
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My guess is I am having a desense issue, but I'm not 100 percent sure.
The repeater works fine until I am about 1 mile away from the antenna site. Once outside of this area the audio from the mobile units stops getting through to the repeater. I know we are still reaching the repeater because we receive the squelch tail after attempting to transmit. The station ID from the controller can be heard loud and clear within a 3 town radius, so I know we are getting good coverage from the transmitter side of the repeater.
The duplexer has been tuned, we are using the proper jumpers for the duplexer, we are running 70 feet of 3/8" superflex andrew heliax. Brand new Comet antenna, etc. etc.
The only possibility I can seem to find through searching the internet is that there may be a bad jumper at the duplexer.
This setup was running at another site with no issues. The only thing that has changed is the feed line and the antenna.
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