Brand new to trying to understand radios coming using garmin rino with family. Recently I've been trying to solve the problem of radio coverage while hunting. The family uses garmin rinos and they work great except once some of us go over the other side of the mountain. Looking around and I found some down and dirty remote gmrs repeaters with an ammo can a battery a solar panel and either two radios or a simplex Repeater box which just replays the last transmission.
It looks easy enough and I will probably switch to a more complex radio, but the rest of the hunters will not. My question is will the rinos be able to communicate through the repeater? I know if they are set to the same frequency they should but what I don't understand is on the rino channel 20 (462.6750) and repeater channel 20 (462.6750) they are the same frequency. Just some reading I thought repeaters worked on two separate frequencies. One TX and one RX. So what does the rino repeater channel accually do? What's the point if 20 and 20R are the same? Thanks.
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It looks easy enough and I will probably switch to a more complex radio, but the rest of the hunters will not. My question is will the rinos be able to communicate through the repeater? I know if they are set to the same frequency they should but what I don't understand is on the rino channel 20 (462.6750) and repeater channel 20 (462.6750) they are the same frequency. Just some reading I thought repeaters worked on two separate frequencies. One TX and one RX. So what does the rino repeater channel accually do? What's the point if 20 and 20R are the same? Thanks.
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