Just some UHF Questions

Submitted: Saturday, Feb 28, 2004 at 19:51
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Hello all.

Well I have now purchased my new handheld UHF radio from a store in town. It is the 5 watt Uniden Uh052XR. It was performing great until I started to listen the first night. What happened was I was listening to on the channel 2 Gunalda repeater, and I noticed that I was getting very strong disorted signals coming from no where. So I decided to change to a different channel, but I noticed that no matter what channel I changed to, I could still here it. After about 5min or so I finally realised what the problem was, but I still can't figure out how to fix it. I noticed that every time a strong signal from this area was coming through, it would expose the signal on every channel except very disorted with all white noise, the squelch doesn't affect it either. What could this problem be? It's just frustrating because if I want to listen to something, if somebody local with a strong signal is talking on a different channel, I can hear that signal with white noise louder than what I can hear what I want to hear.

Also, just a question about "conditions". I've noticed that a lot of people use the word "conditions" on the radio, such as "you can pick up the channel 6 repeater in the right "conditions". What exactly are the "right" conditions?

And now for the last question. What is the MAXIMUM amount of distance you can hear people talking through on the same channel eg 2 repeater but being picked up through another repeater in another area? I always here people on the Gunalda repeater say that you can pick up the channel 2 Brisbane repeater through the Gunalda one, and I believe this. But can you pick up more than just 2 repeaters interacting with each other or over a further distance than 200km?
I know this is a long post, but I'm just really curious about all of this stuff on UHF.

Thanks

Adam :)
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