Friday, May 28, 2004 at 12:06
Sounds like they gave you a 3db Rubber Dipole or somthing similar, great little arials and best for around town, big ariels are good for flat ground with line of site, small ones typically are better for around town. You can buy the cable and software for your Icom to programme scanning channels and commercial channels, you can also turn the CB channels 25watt option on. Yes it is illegal but plenty of people do it and if you are a responsible radio operating no one will care, it's only if you are a DH on the radio that people might complain.
But as mentioned in a previous response I would say you problem with repeaters is that you are on Simplex not Duplex. ie you are not transmitting on the repeaters "input" channel.
ie
ch 1 transmit, ch 31 receive
ch 2 transmit, ch 32 receive
ch 3 transmit, ch 33 receive
ch 4 transmit, ch 34 receive
ch 5 transmit, ch 35 receive
ch 6 transmit, ch 36 receive
ch 7 transmit, ch 37 receive
ch 8 transmit, ch 38 receive
When you select ch1 on your radio hit the "dup" or "duplex" button and your radio will automatically jump to the higher channel 31 when you transmit and jump back again to the origional channel to here the response.
Repeater channels are only from 1 through to 8 so you will only want duplex on when using these channels.
Your radio will remeber which ones you've turned it on on and will stay on until you turn it of, ie once you've turned it on on a particular channel you shouldn't need to touch it again.
Hope this helps! The Icom is a brilliant radio, you'll be more than happy.
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