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Help me put together a remote VHF base?

I am id-ing on 70cm with the Ht and on 2m with my cross bander so that covers every where my transmission can be heard. With the tone squelch setup on the cross bander (unless someone can guess what it is) the base only transmits on 2m and NOT 70cm. I also have the 70cm receiver setup with a tone squelch so only I trigger it thus eleminating the possability of the 2m side transmitting by a stray signal.

I ran this by an OO and he said no problem with my setup as all id-ing has been taken care of.


lets see, are you saying that you are transmitting on 70cm with an ht,.... into a dual band rig set to X-band to a two meter output freq,.....

HOW , and WHAT are you hearing on 70 cm RX?

what do you mean by "I also have the 70cm receiver setup with a tone squelch so only I trigger it",... WHAT are you "triggering" the 70 cm RX with?:pop:
 
HOW , and WHAT are you hearing on 70 cm RX?

what do you mean by "I also have the 70cm receiver setup with a tone squelch so only I trigger it",... WHAT are you "triggering" the 70 cm RX with?:pop:

His HT is transmitting on 70cm, his crossbander is not.
 
His HT is transmitting on 70cm, his crossbander is not.



if that is the case,............. then he is not really Xband repeating,..... what he has is a SIMPLEX x-band remote base.

bottom line,...... the 70 cm signal is he hearing with the ht ,..... whose callsign is on it? and whos rig is transmitting it?

.... exactly what signal is he hearing on 70 cm RX?
 
bottom line,...... the 70 cm signal is he hearing with the ht ,..... whose callsign is on it? and whos rig is transmitting it?

.... exactly what signal is he hearing on 70 cm RX?

He's not hearing anything on 70cm on his HT. He's listening on 2m on the HT and transmitting on 70cm on the HT.
 
lets see, are you saying that you are transmitting on 70cm with an ht,.... into a dual band rig set to X-band to a two meter output freq,.....

HOW , and WHAT are you hearing on 70 cm RX?

what do you mean by "I also have the 70cm receiver setup with a tone squelch so only I trigger it",... WHAT are you "triggering" the 70 cm RX with?:pop:

Yes the HT (FT-60R) transmits on 70cm but receives on 2m (local repeater output) cross band operation but not repeat, Radio on base IC-2720 receives on 70cm and cross band transmits on 2m. So with HT I transmit on 70cm to IC-2720 which transmits on 2m (repeater input), when I go to receive on HT it receives on 2m so the IC-2720 is out of the transmissions on receive.

Forgot IC-2720 is set with tone squelch on both 70cm and 2m so it only listens to my HT to transmit and will not repeat the 2m back out on 2m.
 
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