Actually, there is a branch of a tree that can hit the main element when the wind blows. That tree will be removed soon so I'll check it then. 

The weird thing is the other two radios hit repeaters 40 miles away on the same jpole. However, the radio in question hits the same repeater 40 miles away with the crappy stock antenna, but not on the jpole.

Anyway, this is offtopic, but I thought maybe I was doing something wrong with this firmware radio with chirp.

73s
DW

Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)

245 Corum Hill Road

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Charley Bratton <charley@bratton.net> wrote:
Dennis - Is the J-pole suspended from a tree, or in close proximity (less than 3 ft)?

I had a similar experience where one HT wouldn’t hit one of the three nearby 2m repeaters.   Lowering the J-Pole a few feet away from the supporting limb made a significant difference.  Other 2m repeaters seemed unaffected.   Other radios seemed unaffected.  Once I found an answer, I stopped looking for other solutions, so no, not a full scientific work-up.

-Charley
KE4QBW



On Jun 19, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Dennis Wage <dwage@dwage.com> wrote:

I have 3 UV-5R's

All three of them need their own *.img file because they have different firmwares.

They are all programmed with same channels and settings and all work fairly well for what I need.

However, believe it or not, one of them WILL NOT work with my J-Pole antenna. When I say 'will not work' I mean I can't hit any of the repeaters I normally use. It works perfectly, in fact really well with supplied antenna and with my dual band home made ground plane. With my MFJ power meter it also shows a full watt more output power than the other 2?

Is there anything in my programming the phone that could cause this?

Thanks,


Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)

245 Corum Hill Road
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