Fellow repeater builders, I am a relative novice at repeater linking and need some trouble shooting/system design advice.
I have a 440 repeater with 3 two meter remote base radios tied together using the CAT 300 DXL controller with the RLS board. The remote base radios are tuned to local repeaters that we would like to link together. Individually, each remote base radio works fine meaning I can turn it on with via 440 repeater and qso on the target repeater. Also, another local repeater with a 440 remote base is able to link the 440 repeater and when I turn on one of the remote base radio and link in another 2 mtr repeater it works fine (repeater key up and down like one big repeater). The problem arises when I try to use the two or more 2 mtr remote base radios to link two 2 mtr repeaters together. The system comes up stays up - never unkeys. Is this a hang time issue? Or is there something wrong about trying to link two repeaters on two meters with 2 meter remote bases through a 440 machine - usually folks target the 440 repeater with a remote base not the other way around? Could it be a controller setting issue? I am really stuck at the moment and I appreciate any thoughts you may have. It sure would be nice to have these repeaters linked for our nets and is generally kinda cool if we can pull this off. Vexed in Virgina, Chris W4VX
