Yes, it's a min two cup of java sit down with the manual. The rick also works well as a remote base... I've set up a number of them with duplex uhf links to control mountain top remote base stations on both vhf and uhf.
cheers, skipp > (R)epeater (I)nterface (C)ommunications (K)it. It is a > Motorola "box" that can be configured as either a Uni > or Bi directional repeater (along with many other > variations). The setup and configuration manual can > be a little confusing but it works.