Hi Christy.
One thing that I have noticed on 70 cm is that the TMG707 has a pretty
wicked image response that does cause stuff from the commercial band to
come through on the ham frequencies. I chalked it up to living in a major
city, and being only about one and a half miles from one of the major
communications sites.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 06:23 PM 1/17/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, the offset wasn't the problem. I checked it, and it's set to positive,
>as it should be. So, either something's goofy or there's just none of those
>repeaters near me, but that does seem odd considering there are eight 2m
>repeaters I can at least key up, three of them I know I hit well even on
>five watts.
>
>I'm a bit hesitant to run the radio on 35 watts, mostly because even if the
>antenna can handle it, I'm not sure about RF exposure. It's under the limit
>for requiring measurements and the like, but I'm in the same room with this
>antenna and I'd rather be safe than not, especially with cats around that
>just looove to jump up on the filing cabinet I have it on. I know that on
>ten watts, I can't key a one of them up at all though. It's hard to know if
>I'm receiving or not as far as the repeaters since I don't know which ones
>are really active, but I do receive some out of band stuff.
>
>
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>Christy, 70cm is harder to hit. If you're using an antenna indoors you may
>well
>have problems hitting the repeater. Run the rig on 35w if the antenna will
>handle the load. Also, if you're using a magmount try sitting it in a
>frying
>pan (cast iron works well for this) to get some ground plain effect.
>
>Rigs like the Kenwood ts570 have a built-in antenna tuner.
>
>Since you have a computer you can get a serial cable to connect to that 707
>and get output if information from the radio that isn't spoken normally.
>
>Tom
>Tom
>Brennan
>KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page
>http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
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