Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: AZRedhawk44 on December 30, 2008, 12:20:17 PM
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I want to install a repeater in my truck for my GMRS radios. I have my ZA FCC license and call sign registration.
The radios I have are Cobra Microtalk model PR-5000. They are FRS/GMRS combo radios.
To use a repeater, you have to program your radio to transmit on a different frequency than it receives. I think most people configure the TX to be RX + 5Mhz, correct? Can I do that with these cheap little radios?
Or... can I find a repeater that will TX on the same freq that it RX's on... or will it kill itself with a feedback loop doing that?
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To use a repeater, you have to program your radio to transmit on a different frequency than it receives. I think most people configure the TX to be RX + 5Mhz, correct? Can I do that with these cheap little radios?
If you can, it would be in the manual.
Or... can I find a repeater that will TX on the same freq that it RX's on... or will it kill itself with a feedback loop doing that?
There are "simplex" repeaters that don't use an offset, but I've never used one. My experience with repeaters is mainly through amateur radio, not GMRS.
Chris