• To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:

    Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.

    If you are having trouble legally obtaining software please state so. We do not want any hurt feelings when your vague post is mistaken for a free request. It is YOUR responsibility to properly word your request.

    To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum.

    The various other vendors often permit their dealers to sell the software online (i.e., Kenwood). Please use Google or some other search engine to find a dealer that sells the software. Typically each series or individual radio requires its own software package. Often the Kenwood software is less than $100 so don't be a cheapskate; just purchase it.

    For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).

    This is a large and very visible forum. We cannot jeopardize the ability to provide the RadioReference services by allowing this activity to occur. Please respect this.

Horrible Interference on repeater

N4DES

Retired 0598 Czar ÆS Ø
Joined
Dec 19, 2002
Messages
2,420
Location
South FL
No sir. Nothing has changed. I'm all but certain its propagation. I was just up at the site and there was zero interference today.
I saw where the station I believe is causing it modified their license about 3 months ago, and that's when it started. I've been trying to dig in a little, but the FCC site is extremely slow if it works at all seems like.
If you truly think that you found the offending user and it started about the time that they modified their license, reach out to the coordinator that did their license modification and advise them of the interference issue. If you do get through the FCC drama and find someone who is willing to work with you, the FCC will also engage the coordinator and if they made a mistake will want them to "work it out".

I had something similar with my HOA's Part 90 UHF repeater that I licensed and installed for them. It would get debilitating interference on the input frequency, a lot like yours, from a golf course irrigation system that was operating more than 4 times their licensed TX power output, no CWID, and antenna height higher than licensed. This is on the low power/low altitude part of the UHF spectrum, so the golf course's installation was totally illegal, but I brought them into compliance through the use of the coordinator.
 
Joined
Apr 30, 2008
Messages
1,337
Location
Pittsboro IN
In my early days of installing I put a base in the golf maintenance shop for the Lawrence Welk course in north county San Diego. A few weeks later I was in there for another task when one of the guys said every time they keyed it set off a sprinkler somewhere. I had not notice the sprinkler control was near where I ran the RG-8 (long before LMR400) and offered to move the install.

"oh no, we love to watch those old geezers run off the greens" was his reply.
Now I am one.
 
Top