If the output frequency of the repeater you are trying to hear is near 147.3 
MHz, this is the third harmonic of your cochlear implant's transmitter, and 
it will cause interference.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Linda C. Knight
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 9:42 PM
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Subject: success





Hi all,



My radio is up and running nicely.



I am still working on one of the repeaters which I can hear, but haven't
been able to transmit just yet as I need to check the offset.



However, they had a formal net on it tonight so figured it can wait as my
club friend and fellow ham operator came over and helped us re-arrange the
position of the antenna which is nice.



Also, we got started on trying to fix the repeater in holiday which is a
very powerful repeater and you can see the tower from our sunroom window.



However, we put the antenna in the kitchen and had to run a longer cable
(the extra cable I bought) so we could do this. There doesn't seem to be any
feedline loss, as I was afraid of, so this is good.



After unsuccessfully trying to work the repeater in Holiday, he went home
and bless his heart he went on the net and watched a utube video on how to
program frequencies and tones and stuff on the TMV71a.



He also printed out a list of frequencies (repeaters) and simplex
frequencies and this is good We programmed them in the radio.



We are almost all the way running.



A couple of interesting things:



1.     When my radio is on, art can go in and out of the kitchen and cause
no noise in the radio. But let me walk into the kitchen and the radio makes
noise. I wonder if this is some sort of QRN My cochlear implants run on 49.1
mHZ (BTE) which is behind the ear. Thinking of wearing my backup devices
when I have the radio on. The backup device are bigger. LOL! When I walk out
of the kitchen, all is fine.

2.     It seems I will have to transmit using 50 watts on the 146.670
repeater which is 2.8 miles northeast from my front window. We are on the
blocked side of that particular tower. If I use 50 watts, could this bother
my neighbors? I might be able to use medium to low on transmission to the
tower in holiday and its about a little over 3 miles south. However it's a
very large tower.





I'd like to take this time to say what a great group this is and I truly
appreciate the wealth of knowledge this each of you have.



After 2 years of being a licensed ham radio operator I now have reception
and transmissions on different frequencies.

Hugs and 73

Linda C. Knight & shirley

Ham Radio Operator CallSign: kk4hrg

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