WSEZ714 Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 I'm very new to gmrs and I have been learning a little as I go. I want to eventually get a mobile unit that can hybrid between vehicle and home. I hooked my uv9g up to a Nagoya magnetic antenna and it picks up the same as the rubber duckies it came with. However I have no better transmission. The repeater in the area stays pretty busy in the afternoon and I have no issues picking it up at my house or at my mom's which is technically line of sight closer. I have put the input tone of 143.2 into the radio on t-ctcs and even had it in the r-ctcs but no luck either way. Looking for advice. AndyOnTheRadio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 45 minutes ago, WSEZ714 said: I'm very new to gmrs and I have been learning a little as I go. I want to eventually get a mobile unit that can hybrid between vehicle and home. I hooked my uv9g up to a Nagoya magnetic antenna and it picks up the same as the rubber duckies it came with. However I have no better transmission. The repeater in the area stays pretty busy in the afternoon and I have no issues picking it up at my house or at my mom's which is technically line of sight closer. I have put the input tone of 143.2 into the radio on t-ctcs and even had it in the r-ctcs but no luck either way. Looking for advice. Are you on the repeater channel on your handheld or one of the simplex channels? They both receive on the same frequency but the repeater channel transmits on a different frequency. WRUU653, wayoverthere and WSEZ714 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXB215 Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 How and where is the antenna mounted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socalgmrs Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 How far is the repeater from your location. Like already stated are you On a repeater channel with an off sett? WSEZ714 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSEZ714 Posted October 25 Author Report Share Posted October 25 Thanks for the quick replies I was on a simplex channel. I see the rptr channels on there now didn't realize it made a difference. In terms of antenna I have it mounted on my truck and had it mounted on my metal roof testing as well. I'm about 13 miles from the tower. I'll try the repeater channel and offset when I get back home. I appreciate you all like I said I'm pretty green with this stuff. WRXB215 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRYZ926 Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 Also make sure to have the correct tone set on your radio for transmit if the repeater is using tones. You can leave your receive tones off for now. You can hear the repeater with no receive tone set but the repeater will not hear you if it is using tones and you do not have your transmit tone set. SteveShannon and WRUU653 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socalgmrs Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 7 hours ago, WSEZ714 said: Thanks for the quick replies I was on a simplex channel. I see the rptr channels on there now didn't realize it made a difference. In terms of antenna I have it mounted on my truck and had it mounted on my metal roof testing as well. I'm about 13 miles from the tower. I'll try the repeater channel and offset when I get back home. I appreciate you all like I said I'm pretty green with this stuff. This is a common issue. The instructions most likely covered this as well as the info you promised you read when you signed up for your gmrs license. Find some time to read up on repeaters and how they work. It’s a 5min read but will help greatly in understanding and programming repeaters. SteveShannon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted October 25 Report Share Posted October 25 1 hour ago, Socalgmrs said: This is a common issue. The instructions most likely covered this as well as the info you promised you read when you signed up for your gmrs license. Find some time to read up on repeaters and how they work. It’s a 5min read but will help greatly in understanding and programming repeaters. Quit lecturing people on “the info you promised you’d read”. The information on the license says absolutely nothing about repeaters and your comment is not helpful to anyone. OffRoaderX, TrikeRadio, BoxCar and 3 others 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSEZ714 Posted October 25 Author Report Share Posted October 25 That's where I was confused because on the simplex channel grms19 I had the tone programmed in for t-ctcs for the repeater but I understand now why it wouldn't work that way. It called for an input of 141.3hz so I had it as the t-ctcs. I understand they take in a signal and bounce it back but didn't know how to set up the handheld. The manual is very lacking as it doesn't say you can't use the regular grms19 channel. I appreciate everyone's time. I'll holler back next week if I cant get it work still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyOnTheRadio Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago @WSEZ714 I am in the same boat as you are. I have the 9G and the UT-72G. I can hear crystal clear on several repeaters, but people say my signal is week and I'm hard to hear. Chances are you have programmed your radio right, it's just that no one can hear you to respond. It's frustrating. Can anyone point us to a video or article on how to boost your transmit on a handheld? If I find something, I'll share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralCochrane Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago Antenna polarization Input modulation AndyOnTheRadio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXB215 Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago BTech has an amp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleYoda Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago Amp would not be a good idea where he has the antenna (too much RF exposure). AndyOnTheRadio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRXB215 Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago 1 minute ago, UncleYoda said: Amp would not be a good idea where he has the antenna (too much RF exposure). Some how I missed something. Where does he have his antenna? AndyOnTheRadio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted 21 hours ago Report Share Posted 21 hours ago 34 minutes ago, AndyOnTheRadio said: @WSEZ714 I am in the same boat as you are. I have the 9G and the UT-72G. I can hear crystal clear on several repeaters, but people say my signal is week and I'm hard to hear. Chances are you have programmed your radio right, it's just that no one can hear you to respond. It's frustrating. Can anyone point us to a video or article on how to boost your transmit on a handheld? If I find something, I'll share. Repeaters transmit on 462 MHz frequencies. But you must transmit to the repeater on a 467 MHz frequency. It’s possible that you’re transmitting on the same 462 frequency as the repeater transmits rather than the 467 frequency needed to get into the repeater. If that’s the case your signal could sound weak to them if they hear it at all. Make sure you use a repeater channel. WRUU653 and AndyOnTheRadio 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleYoda Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago I'll let him explain if he wants to. The details he's leaving out do matter. But he asked for a video to watch and that is different than asking for advice. WRXB215 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyOnTheRadio Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago Thank you to everyone who has replied! @UncleYoda has been very kind to run a transmission test with me. I placed the 72G at my window that was not facing the repeater I was trying to hit. In all honesty it was a miracle that I even squeaked through. I’m working on some new ideas. I understand that in need less interference where my antenna is placed so I will work on that. I also watched videos on how to create a GMRS base station with a huge antenna on my roof and a lightning rod. However, my budget and housing will not allow me to do things like that. So I’m just trying to figure out something that will work for me and my situation. I am going to go back and read everyone’s comments again and try to fully understand them. I’ll report back later. I am grateful for everyone’s time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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