Well, i have been putting a few radios next to one another, and am
monitoring the output of the signal, and that is what I am trying to see
is how well is the signal being heard?  I'd like to do something to
monitor it closely short of taking a tape recorder, and another radio say
a scanner into another room and recording my activities on the repeater.





On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jerry Berrier wrote:

> You can monitor from another receiver set to the repeater output frequency.
> You're transmitting on an input frequency which is probably 600KHZ away from
> the output if you're on 2 meters, so there should be no conflict between the
> two radios running, even if they are right next to each other.
>
> An interesting thing our net control did one night on a local informal net
> here in Massachusetts was to tape record each checkin and then import the
> recordings into wav files.  He then uploaded all of them on to the club's
> web site, so you could go and click on your call sign and hear how your
> signal sounded through the repeater from his location.  I thought that was
> pretty cool.
> 73
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:28 PM
> Subject: quality of signal monitoring
>
>
> > Good evening everyone.  I am just wondering if anyone has thought of or
> > have tired methods so that you can try and monitor the quality of the
> > signals you are putting out when you are on a repeater on 2-meters or
> > 440?  I have found that I mm managing to  raise repeaters and that's
> > it.  Then tonight I wasn't sure if I was getting  stepped on or not, but I
> > would like to monitor the signal I am putting out, but I can't do that
> > with two radios within close proximity to one another.  Any suggestions or
> > help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.
>