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RDAC, in and of itself, WILL NOT narrow down an SWR problem. The question and first 5 posts were all referencing the duplexer being the issue (which it was). That's what I addressed.
 

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When you say you get nothing....do you mean no output power? or nothing reflected? If no output power, you have more work to do. If your reflected is nothing, you should be set.
 

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Bypass the duplexer and see what you get. Hook the transmit side of the repeater up directly to the antenna and just leave the receive port of the repeater disconnected (key it with a portable). If SWR is under 2.0:1 (ideally you'll want under 1.5:1) that is working properly. Then go and test both the transmit side of the duplexer (meter between repeater and duplexer) and output and compare results (also compare forward power if possible and put it into a log comparison, if it comes out to more than 2.5 dB of loss you have duplexer issues).
 

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Which can be done through RDAC via the process of elimination (test repeater into a load, test duplexer into a load, test antenna) using the built in tools. If one doesn't have access to a SWR meter you can still figure out where the issue may be centered around. Just another tool to use to reach the same conclusion.

What would a good SWR reading be?


Nevermind :|
 
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Bypass the duplexer and see what you get. Hook the transmit side of the repeater up directly to the antenna and just leave the receive port of the repeater disconnected (key it with a portable). If SWR is under 2.0:1 (ideally you'll want under 1.5:1) that is working properly. Then go and test both the transmit side of the duplexer (meter between repeater and duplexer) and output and compare results (also compare forward power if possible and put it into a log comparison, if it comes out to more than 2.5 dB of loss you have duplexer issues).

I Don't have all the connections/adapters to get my meter between the radio and duplexer. I thought about doing that too.
 

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So I finally got it all worked out. It was definitely a duplexer with the TX and RX swapped up. I show 28-30 watts of forward power and a little less than 3:1 swr. Seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the help...


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