Does I have the stupid?

[iyakonboats]

Hopefully the listing caught your attention. I used to know how to setup my BF-F8HP and I live in Stuart, Florida and we have a repeater on 462.625 and it shows input and output tones of 136.5, which I setup in the radio via R-CTCSS and T-CTCSS as 136.5 and my offset is 5MHZ+. I know there may not be others on the repeater; however, my other Baofeng I setup the same way and cannot hear when I transit. Am I missing something that is painfully obvious?

[GrouserPad]

Are you getting a tone or cw id or squelch tail back from the repeater with one radio and not the other? 

[TrikeRadio]

if your two radios are too close together when you test hitting the repeater, they could be desensing each other.

Move them apart... like across the room if necessary... or get someone else to monitor the other radio further from your transmitting one.

[iyakonboats]

I went outside with one and left the other in my office with my phone recording, heard nothing. I know it must be something I'm doing wrong

[iyakonboats]

14 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

Are you getting a tone or cw id or squelch tail back from the repeater with one radio and not the other? 

I am getting that "feedback" after I'm done transmitting, yes

 

[TrikeRadio]

Does your radio have a setting to turn ON repeaters? (Some do, some are set on automatically without a setting)

also... there are usually pre-set SIMPLEX GMRS channels that only do simplex...

an then above channel 22 there are repeater channels for those same frequencies...
what channel slot are you useing? if it is below 23 you may not be able to hit a repeater.

[TrikeRadio]

2 minutes ago, iyakonboats said:

I am getting that "feedback" after I'm done transmitting, yes

 

can you reverse the process? use the other radio to transmit and see if you get a repeater squelch tail noise back on that one too?

 

[iyakonboats]

On the BF-F8HP it doesn't have this setting, it lets me manually set the frequency directly, I'm not using the preset channels. I am getting the squelch tail noise on the first one.

I just tried in reverse, same. I'm looking to see if I am missing something in the F8HP

[iyakonboats]

I'm using this radio and these instructions: 

 

[Socalgmrs]

If you have set ups repeater your radios will never communicate with each other. They will need to transmit to the repeater and the repeater will transmit back out.   Radios on. Handles set up to talk to repeaters do not talk to eachother.   So are you close enough to the repeater to use it?  

[TrikeRadio]

6 minutes ago, iyakonboats said:

I'm using this radio and these instructions: 

 

hmm.. if you followed the instructions on that video for both radios, and are getting squelch tail response from the repeater on both... then I am not sure why you are not hearing your transmit from one to the repeater and back to the other.

Have you just tried calling for a radio check with your id to see if someone else out there can hear you and respond?

[TrikeRadio]

8 minutes ago, Socalgmrs said:

If you have set ups repeater your radios will never communicate with each other. They will need to transmit to the repeater and the repeater will transmit back out.   Radios on. Handles set up to talk to repeaters do not talk to eachother.   So are you close enough to the repeater to use it?  

he did say he was getting a squelch tail back from the repeaters with each radio when transmitting... so that seems to be working

[TrikeRadio]

Another thing you can do, remove the RX tones on both radios... jsut keep the TX tones for the repeater and see if that lets you hear your transmit to the repeater coming back in the other radio.

[iyakonboats]

20 minutes ago, Socalgmrs said:

If you have set ups repeater your radios will never communicate with each other. They will need to transmit to the repeater and the repeater will transmit back out.   Radios on. Handles set up to talk to repeaters do not talk to eachother.   So are you close enough to the repeater to use it?  

From where the repeater is on the map, less than 3 miles and it shows about 10 miles range

[TrikeRadio]

Any success yet @iyakonboats ? any other ideas?