We have been in the middle of a geometric storm. Hardly Able Monitoring. HAM. Get it.
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On May 5, 2023, at 6:50 AM, Larry Macionski via groups.io <am_fm_radio@...> wrote:
?On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 08:38 PM, Mike Holmes wrote:
Last week from my truck I was barely heard, this week I transmitted several
times at 20 watts and nobody heard me
#1 Maybe nobody was listening..
#2. were you keying a/the repeater?
#3. if you were keying the repeater, what was the signal strength of the repeater.
#4. Hood mounted antennas can be directional..
#5. Have you checked SWR and power output with a separate meter? Many times Relative transmitter output on Chinese radios is fake.
Meaning if a bar graph, the bar graph is set in firmware to indicate, low-medium or high power selection, not an actual measurement.
#6. You did not indicate if you were on the repeater or on simplex.
#7. If repeater. did you verify your PL tone with another receiver?
#8. What is the brand of your radio?
#9. What make is the antenna, many of these off brand antennas are designed for 136-174mhz and work best in the 155mhz region. Not ham.
#10 did you program the radio manually, or program it with software...
The difference, programming manually, requires that you save multiple time. Frequency, offset and PL.
Progammin with software the software downloads to the radio and does a "master" save.. that pretty much saves everything.
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Michael Moore
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