I've just had a couple of complaints of splatter on a repeater that I now own.
We overhauled it, retuning the cans, and setting the TX and RX back
on frequency, replacing some cables that were dubious, but nothing
really major found. The cans weren't far off, but I got another 6dB
rejection out of them, and about 1dB on pass.
The complaints are that they can hear the repeater ID (which is
distinctive) when tuned to the output of another repeater, 30kHz away.
The other repeater is about 17 miles straight line, outputting 50W
into a 6dB antenna at about 200' agl.
In one case, our repeater is more or less in line with the path to
the other one, in the other case it's about 1mi north, more or less
90 degrees off the path.
The receivers are Kenwood TM-V7As, both of the guys live very close
to the repeater, <1 mile.
I don't know the antennas in both cases, one is a 1/4 wave gp at
about 20' agl. Both are omni antennas AFAIK.
Our system is 15W into a 6dBi antenna, at about 80'.
I can't hear anything at my QTH, which is about 2 miles, even with
the squelch open.
Is this likely a case of "newly active repeater" getting into not so
tight receivers more than it used to, simply because it's now active?
I've listened to it about 1/8 mile away, with my TM-V7a in the car,
and heard nothing.
I can pull the system down and put it on the SA, but I'm not
convinced this is "real".
Any suggestions?
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