Can anyone who has built a repeater with 2 mcs2000s and an Id O Matic 4 give me some advice. Recently acquired 3 MCS2000s for free. They were 100% working when pulled from service. My issue is 1 is now dead after building my GMRS repeater and when the Id O Matic kicked on(tried to transmit the voice ID) it killed the transmit radio after a second or two of transmitting. This radio worked flawlessly without the receiving radio connected to the IDOM4. It would voice and morse code ID with no issue, I could connect a mic to it and run simplex with no issue. Im not sure if its a programming issue or if its a hardware/wire issue. I have followed all wiring help and info I can find online for connecting the radios to the IDOM4, the seller of the accessory plugs and wires wasnt much help as he posted half the wiring configuration on the ebay add and refuses to respond to emails. It seems there is some sort of loop that when the rx radio recieves the tx radio tried to do its job and the magic smoke escaped. Any help would be great, I dont wanna kill anymore radios and would love to bring this project to an end. Thanks, Ben, KC3IBZ/WRFG802 benmhayes@gmail.com
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MCS2000 Repeater Project Help
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