Mastodawn

Elmer? I have a question. My cute little Yaesu FT-60 can hear the weekly net on the nearest repeater pretty well, but they can't seem to hear me, on either frequency.

I've double-checked whether the offsets are + or - and I'm pretty sure the PL tones are correct.

I'm starting to think that 5 watts is not enough to reach a tower 5.4 miles away (according to Google Maps).

Anything else I should be trying? I'm thinking of driving over to tower next week....

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AG7GM Dan

@ClimateJenny If you have an extra receiver, tune it to the "listening" freq and key. Do you hear yourself? Now tune to the repeater input freq and do it again. If you don't hear yourself on the second test, *you* likely have an issue. If you hear yourself on the second, but not on the first test, you may not have the gumption to hit the repeater, or you PL may be wrong or the repeater's squelch may be too high.