orange uhf repeater
Submitted: Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 at 20:39
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sxc_thing
hey people was playing around with my base uhf and was on channel three and i can hear people but they cant hear me so i was thinking would it be
orange the only thing i can think. so any ways to the point can any one tell me wat the range would be on it
i live south of it in
Young if that helps
Reply By: Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha) - Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 at 22:33
Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 at 22:33
the lower channels are often used for repeater channels what that means is they send on say ch3 and recieve in ch 33 Have you been replying to them with your UHF on Duplex mode for that channell
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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Australia) - Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 at 23:55
Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 at 23:55
rx on lower channels and tx on higher channels isn't it Davoe ? but yeah must be in duplex mode if it's a repeater
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Reply By: sxc_thing - Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:12
Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:12
yes i do hear them on channel three duplex but would it be that or sumthing else late at night they play music so it might not be the repeater ?????
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Follow Up By: Mike Harding - Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:41
Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:41
>play music so it might not be the repeater
Sounds _exactly_ like a CB repeater.
Over flat country a CB radio might be able to Tx up to 100km on a good day with a back wind. However on a bad day in the High Country you might be lucky to get 2km out of it.
A CB radio produces
UHF radio signals which travel in a "line of sight" manner so, basically if the Rx and Tx cannot "see" one-another they won't be able to communicate, which is why repeaters are usually placed on top of a
hill - the "line of sight" is greater. Sometimes an atmospheric condition (called tropospheric ducting) exists which will carry the signals for anything up to thousands of kilometres
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Reply By: sxc_thing - Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:46
Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:46
ok im not to sure but i thinki i would be about i 150km from
orange i am useing i 2.2meter i think its a 9db nure was given to me and its on the very top of a 6 meter pole with my other antenna which is for my mobile phone
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Follow Up By: Mike Harding - Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:27
Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:27
Young is 140km from
Orange and, IIRC, the country around there is pretty flat so with your antenna at 6m I would think it's quite possible you would be able to hear (but probably not very
well) the
Orange CB repeater however I doubt you would be able to work it assuming you're running the legal CB power of 5W (or is it 4W?). Repeaters will ignore any incoming signals below a certain level otherwise they would be constantly starting up on noise and by the time it gets to
Orange your signal will be hardly above the noise.
If you're interested in radio consider getting an Amateur Operators licence. The new Foundation Licence is not too difficult to obtain and gives you far more options than CB.
Go here:
http://www.wia.org.au/
then click on "Education" then "Foundation Licence"
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