Got the radios BF-F8HP
Got the cable
Got the CHIRP software installed
Got the software to work (well most of it)
Got the info from the repeater book for a local repeater
And this is where my “gots” stop.
So I have two Identical radios both with identical cloning they both can hit the repeater but I can’t hear myself on the other radio I’m really scratching my head on this one.
Also in the software I found all the great NOAA information and I said great I can put all this on my radio but the upload button is grayed out I don’t understand ??
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am stuck.
I got an idea, you're running tone squelch... Turn that off but keep the tone encode on. Just run the tone. Another thing you may inadvertently done is you're running tone Squelch with an encode different than the decode. You're sending PL Tone 123.0 but your radio is looking for 114.7 ensure that both encode&decode tones are the same. Some repeaters do not send a tone, so if you're running Tone Squelch, the repeater isn't going to open up your receiver. Aka: closed squelch
If you hear the repeaters courtesy beep on both but not yourself on the monitoring radio, see my second idea below
Another idea!!! Try placing the two radios a room apart. If you're transmitting to a repeater with one and expecting to listen to yourself on the other one right next you, you're actually overloading the seconds receiver even though your 600khz off frequency. (Standard VHF repeater offset +/- 600khz)
Patriot Trucker hit on it: make sure your frequency offset is correct. If the repeater's output is say 146.500 MHz, but the input is +600 KHz, you must transmit on 147.100 MHz and listen on 146.500 MHz. Some repeaters have positive offsets, some negative. Also you can ask anyone within listening range for a radio check. If they come back to you then you know you are "in!"
Thanks for all the advice, I have not been able to work on this due to my own schedule. I will come back with a success story or with more question. Hopefully a success story!