Thanks for the quick reply The revers pair is a good point.
I am in a remote area and did the full coordination but still we have had some odd ducting here as I am close to 9K mountains and I am at around 4K feet to start with. Tony I have not ran it without the tx pl. I have a few folks that like that including myself as I drop the tone before the TX, the controller is a ICS. But still for testing I may do that. I have echolink so I hook it up at night to the Ireland conference and set the system to listen only so I do not interfere with folks. Then with a program called echoproducer I can log each time the system gets kerchunched. sometimes its fine other times the log is big. Sorry I failed to put down its on 147.000 TX 147.600 RX. I have a repeater info page off of my weather station site. http://www.josephoregonweather.com/repeater.html --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Tony KT9AC <kt...@...> wrote: > > Scott, > You are not alone in this!! I too have been fighting a problem almost > exactly like this - I've tried different PL tones on RX and TX and that > seemed to keep it from "self-oscillating". Seems to happen more when the > weather is dry and I describe it as a "growl" sound. Happening on a > MSF5000 at a commercial site. We too have numerous broadcast towers > within 2 miles, and lots of Cellular/PCS antennas around. Mine is on > UHF, yours appears to be high-band VHF (from the TKR-750 K2 note). > > I'm still working on a resolution, but again for now try either split > tone or remove PL from the transmitter (CSQ). It would keep the repeater > keyed up for several seconds, then drop signal and come back again (as > long as the tail remained with PL output). I've also shortened the hang > timer to 3 seconds to help. It wouldn't bring up the system unless > someone kerchunked it, then it started. > > Tony, KT9AC >
