When I lived in a community I would walk my dog around the neighborhood. I could hear our club 2 meter repeater just fine but had difficulty having a decent conversation using my HT with a rubber duck. I bought a dual band HT and would set up the dual band radio, in my house, to cross band repeat. I would "talk" to my base radio on UHF, it would "repeat" over to VHF and when I unkeyed I could listen to the VHF just fine. My HT was set at 500mw and would be full quieting
Your dual band radio, that's capable of cross band repeating, essentially becomes a repeater repeater. It can be set up, according to your flavor of radio, to have different ways in which to cross band repeat.
Be sure to ID each TX frequency, to be legal, if you want to experiment. Option one is, for example, that your HT transmits to your cross band radio on 446.025mhz, the cross band radio then simultaneously transmits on 147.735mhz (input to 147.135mhz) and keys up the VHF repeater. You carry on your conversation and then unkey your HT, the cross band radio will then unkey and you listen to 147.135mhz on the HT and the cross band radio is NOT transmitting. This option is easiest since ALL transmitters are ID'd.
Option two is, the HT transmits on 446.025mhz and the cross band radio simultaneously transmits on 147.735mhz and the VHF repeater transmits on 147.135mhz. When you unkey your HT the cross band radio now transmits BACK to your HT on 446.025mhz. With this option the transmission FROM the cross band radio now has to be ID'd legally. It can be done but requires more of an effort to do so.
I hope I didn't confuse you, when I first started doing it someone tried to explain it to me and I had to draw it out on paper for it to make sense to me. I haven't used cross banding in many years but I consider a useful mode.
Would my wouxun uv950p mobile? It said it had a cross band repeater option though I never used anything like this before so I'm not too familiar with it.
