VETCOMMS Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 Do any of you use an HT in your house with a mobile attached to a base antenna in your detached garage set on cross band repeat? I'm trying to think of a way to keep the antenna off my house yet still be able to access area repeaters or talk simplex. Will this work? Quote
marcspaz Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I have a base station, currently, but for more than a decade I would use the crossband repeater in my Jeep to talk on the repeaters. It was kind of a pain to go outside to switch repeaters, but it worked pretty well. WRTC928, WRHS218, VETCOMMS and 1 other 3 1 Quote
WRTC928 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 My mobile radio has crossband repeat capability. It's a nice feature, but TBH, I'll probably never use it. There are so many repeaters in my area that I can hit with an HT that I doubt the issue will come up. I suppose it might be useful when traveling to other parts of the country. My days of camping out in the wilderness are past. Still, I think the capability is cool. To answer the OP's question, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. If it's only you using it, the duty cycle probably won't be high enough to be a problem. It would not be working any more than if you were using it as a base station in your house. Still, because you won't be able to see it when it's in use, you might consider putting a small fan on it. If you want to get fancy, you could set it up so that the fan comes on when the radio reaches a specified temperature, or you could just set it to blow all the time. I can't imagine any downside to having a fan on it all the time except the negligible cost of electricity to run it. VETCOMMS 1 Quote
WRYZ926 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I use cross band repeat on my base radio (Icom IC-2730) quite often when I am working around outside. I can get into the local 2m repeater with my HT but I don't have the best signal doing so. I don't have to worry about where I am standing or which direction I am facing when using the HT when I use cross band repeats on my base radio. VETCOMMS, WRTC928 and SteveShannon 3 Quote
tweiss3 Posted January 27 Report Posted January 27 I have crossband repeat available in the cars. At home I use an analog hotspot for home coverage when I don't want to jump on the base. It's simplex and connects to other repeaters with allstar. I have tossed the idea of building a small repeater that I could connect to one of the base stations, but haven't gone down that road yet. VETCOMMS 1 Quote
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