Did my repeater basically the same way. Used a larger box from Harbor Freight. I took a battery out of an old 12v jump starter that i had laying around and put it in the box using cigarette lighter adapters on the radios. I use a magnet mount antenna or my Tram antenna adapter system that allows NMO antennas to be connected on a 20 foot push up pole. The battery lasted nearly an entire week on our camping trip in Colorado Rockies. Hope yours works out well. CHEERS from Colorado
Nice, that's great it lasted the whole week. Its nice to have something that's a set and forget. I just got back from a week long camping trip also and it worked great when I used it, definitely extended my range from previous trips to this locations. I didn't use it every day however so I am not sure about my battery life. I am just using the stock extended batteries in the baofengs with the option to add a USB battery backup... Need more testing tho...
I just created a neighborhood repeater setup. I used Wouxon (2 of them paired) KG1000 Plus with a duplexer and (2) power supplies (This needs just 1 antenna). Testing today worked great on both HT and mobile in a highly dense wooded area. Excited about the results. An attick mounted TWAYRDIO Yagi Antenna UHF 400-470Mhz from amazon worked the best against all my antennas. Crazy good antenna that finalized my setup after much testing.
@@TechTinkerHobbyist sorry that was supposed to be “certain”…how is a duplexer tuned? Sorry I’m still new to this… Is this something you do yourself or something they do before they ship it?
haha no worries, I was wondering if I was missing something... A duplexer basically has a series of filters and isolation components so 1 freq does not interfere with a 2nd freq, as on a repeater both are being used simultaneously. As such they are typically configured when you purchase them for a specific set of freqs. Depending on where you buy they may just list the freqs it is setup for or, as was the case with this one I ordered from Aliexpress, I had to provide the freqs I wanted when I purchased. The downside for a mobile unit such as mine is that I am locked to this set of freqs so if I am camping somewhere and others are using this channel I just have to deal with it...
Did my repeater basically the same way. Used a larger box from Harbor Freight. I took a battery out of an old 12v jump starter that i had laying around and put it in the box using cigarette lighter adapters on the radios. I use a magnet mount antenna or my Tram antenna adapter system that allows NMO antennas to be connected on a 20 foot push up pole. The battery lasted nearly an entire week on our camping trip in Colorado Rockies. Hope yours works out well.
CHEERS from Colorado
Nice, that's great it lasted the whole week. Its nice to have something that's a set and forget. I just got back from a week long camping trip also and it worked great when I used it, definitely extended my range from previous trips to this locations. I didn't use it every day however so I am not sure about my battery life. I am just using the stock extended batteries in the baofengs with the option to add a USB battery backup... Need more testing tho...
I just created a neighborhood repeater setup. I used Wouxon (2 of them paired) KG1000 Plus with a duplexer and (2) power supplies (This needs just 1 antenna). Testing today worked great on both HT and mobile in a highly dense wooded area. Excited about the results. An attick mounted TWAYRDIO Yagi Antenna UHF 400-470Mhz from amazon worked the best against all my antennas. Crazy good antenna that finalized my setup after much testing.
SBR on this setup 1.0!
Nice, that should be a pretty powerful setup! I wanted to use those KG1000's also, just not in the budget at the moment...
What duplexer did you use
So... how is this working with the equipment you linked?
It's working pretty well. I just got back from a week long camping trip. It was definitely able to extend my range.
Can you explain how or why the duplexer was tuned to curtained frequencies?
"curtained frequencies" - I am not familiar with that phrase. The duplexer was configured and tuned for a specific GMRS repeater channel
@@TechTinkerHobbyist sorry that was supposed to be “certain”…how is a duplexer tuned? Sorry I’m still new to this…
Is this something you do yourself or something they do before they ship it?
haha no worries, I was wondering if I was missing something... A duplexer basically has a series of filters and isolation components so 1 freq does not interfere with a 2nd freq, as on a repeater both are being used simultaneously. As such they are typically configured when you purchase them for a specific set of freqs. Depending on where you buy they may just list the freqs it is setup for or, as was the case with this one I ordered from Aliexpress, I had to provide the freqs I wanted when I purchased. The downside for a mobile unit such as mine is that I am locked to this set of freqs so if I am camping somewhere and others are using this channel I just have to deal with it...