I can trigger repeater, but no one hears me.

[MordeKyle]

I have two GMRS handhelds. I am trying to hit a local repeater. When I key up and release, I get a tone back from the repeater. No one ever hears my traffic though. I have the CTCSS set to 141.3 on RX and TX as it says on the repeaters page. I am not sure what I could be doing wrong. 

The handhelds are a Btech GMRS PRO and a Wouxun UV9GX. I also just got a programming cable for the Wouxun. CHIRPS seems to have different tone settings, so maybe I need to adjust something there? 

Any help us greatly appreciated. I'm trying to learn as much as I can. 

Thanks! 

[amaff]

21 hours ago, TrikeRadio said:

So was he

[WRUU653]

32 minutes ago, amaff said:

What is this? The search for extraterrestrial life 1920’s???  DIY earbuds??? What the hell

[TrikeRadio]

1 hour ago, WRUU653 said:

What is this? The search for extraterrestrial life 1920’s???  DIY earbuds??? What the hell

I believe this was something the British experimented with for listening for approaching aircraft before RADAR became the best way to watch for attacking aircraft.

[SteveShannon]

1 hour ago, WRUU653 said:

What is this? The search for extraterrestrial life 1920’s???  DIY earbuds??? What the hell

I’m guessing it was invented by a wife whose husband doesn’t pay attention. 

[amaff]

12 hours ago, TrikeRadio said:

I believe this was something the British experimented with for listening for approaching aircraft before RADAR became the best way to watch for attacking aircraft.

Yup, this. And they tried lots of different designs. They're called "Acoustic Mirrors". Basically: point them in the general direction the Luftwaffe was likely coming from, and plonk some plucky private in the seat to yell out when they heard airplanes coming.
The invention (and operational deployment) of radar made them obsolete pretty quickly. But it was a pretty good idea at the time.

[WRXB215]

What's really cool is that those things actually work. The have a small setup at the air and space museum in Alamogordo NM and it works surprisingly well. Also, there is a park in Baytown that has a small half-circle thing that works.

[amaff]

5 minutes ago, WRXB215 said:

What's really cool is that those things actually work. The have a small setup at the air and space museum in Alamogordo NM and it works surprisingly well. Also, there is a park in Baytown that has a small half-circle thing that works.

Yep, exactly. These days they're scientific curiosities to blow kids' (and dorky adults like myself) minds in museums (like round hallways where you can hear a whisper from the other side) or those little cones you stand under in front of a TV so that the TV isn't blaring out sound making noise through the rest of the museum, but underneath the cone you can hear the audio clear as a bell), but the concept is the same. Make all the sound bounce to the focus point of the 'mirror' and you can hear something from a lot further away than you could with the 'naked' ear.