I had them tuned because I had just bought them and didn't really trust that they were right. They were very far out so it's good that I got them tuned. I was having the same problem as now though very poor receive. Right now I have a radio on there for receive that was getting about 30 miles of coverage as an Echolink link node with home made antenna and now hooked up to the repeater using a big Tram Dualband antenna through the duplexer I am lucky if I am getting 3 miles.
So I don't think the repeater's built in receiver is the problem which leads me to either desense or a bad antenna cable. Transmit is getting out very well and the swr is almost 1 to 1 so I think the cable is OK. I am running LMR 400 up the tower 95% of the way. I just have a short coax jumper that goes into the antenna. I am going to try to split them and see what I get. Thanks, Vern KI4ONW On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:50:48 -0500 "Steve S. Bosshard (NU5D)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time for an isolated TEE test with a dummy load. Why >did you have the > duplexers tuned ? Was there a problem prior? > > You should be able to split the duplexer without any >trouble - just mark > things so you can go back as it was. > > Best luck and 73, Steve NU5D > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am having some receive problems on my repeater and I >>am >> thinking that it might be desense. I am on 2M running a >> MASRII repeater with a Decibal Products band reject 6 >>can >> duplexer. >> >> While I can key the repeater from a pretty good distance >> the audio that makes it through the repeater drops off >> pretty quickly. I just had the duplexers tuned and they >> are tuned very well. >> >> So on to my question. If I were to take and seperate >>the >> recv cans from the xmit cans and run to 2 seperate >> antennas would that mess up the duplexer tuning? will >>20' >> of vertical seperation plus the cans and the fact that I >> would be running through seperate cable, make a >> difference? >> >> Thanks, >> Vern >> KI4ONW >> >> >
