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Rick Sparber All Messages By This Member #16016 开云体育 I set up my FT-60 to scan 2 meter. It has the original rubber duckie antenna on it. I take it outside where I can see the antenna farm 2.5 miles away up on the mountain. I hear nothing most of the time. Using the repeater book, I do know the repeater frequencies. I scan through this region of the spectrum and still get nothing. The squelch is set just above the noise floor. ? What gives? ? 73, ? Rick
Phil Jenne All Messages By This Member #16017 no one is using the repeater. try using one frequency with the PL and listen for the identifier. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:54 PM, 'Rick - yahoo' rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote: ? I set up my FT-60 to scan 2 meter. It has the original rubber duckie antenna on it. I take it outside where I can see the antenna farm 2.5 miles away up on the mountain. I hear nothing most of the time. Using the repeater book, I do know the repeater frequencies. I scan through this region of the spectrum and still get nothing. The squelch is set just above the noise floor. ? What gives? ? 73, ? Rick
Jack All Messages By This Member #16018 开云体育 My suggestion is to wait until you get your call and are legal, then transmit and identify on one of the repeaters and see if you get either a reset beep or someone responds to you. ?Chances are there’s nothing wrong with the radio but only a unused repeater. ?Don’t panic and think it’s a radio problem until you can prove it is (or not). Jack, ae8p toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jun 15, 2014, at 9:54 PM, 'Rick - yahoo' rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote: I set up my FT-60 to scan 2 meter. It has the original rubber duckie antenna on it. I take it outside where I can see the antenna farm 2.5 miles away up on the mountain. I hear nothing most of the time. Using the repeater book, I do know the repeater frequencies. I scan through this region of the spectrum and still get nothing. The squelch is set just above the noise floor. ? What gives? ? 73, ? Rick
Rick Sparber All Messages By This Member #16019 开云体育 I didn’t mean to imply that anything was wrong with the radio. I pick up some traffic but not very much. I was wondering if it was an antenna gain problem but find that hard to believe given how close I am to the repeaters. ? My real fear is that ham radio on 2 meter and 70 cm is dead in Phoenix. ? Rick ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: FT-60@... [mailto:FT-60@...] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 7:45 PM To: FT-60@... Subject: Re: [FT-60] a real newbie question ? ? My suggestion is to wait until you get your call and are legal, then transmit and identify on one of the repeaters and see if you get either a reset beep or someone responds to you. ?Chances are there’s nothing wrong with the radio but only a unused repeater. ?Don’t panic and think it’s a radio problem until you can prove it is (or not). ? Jack, ae8p ? On Jun 15, 2014, at 9:54 PM, 'Rick - yahoo' rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote: ? ? I set up my FT-60 to scan 2 meter. It has the original rubber duckie antenna on it. I take it outside where I can see the antenna farm 2.5 miles away up on the mountain. I hear nothing most of the time. Using the repeater book, I do know the repeater frequencies. I scan through this region of the spectrum and still get nothing. The squelch is set just above the noise floor. ? What gives? ? 73, ? Rick ? ?

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