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    <p>Perhaps a bit off topic, but certainly interesting! I'd be
      curious if the problem goes away after the tree is removed.<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Tom Henderson</pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/19/2018 05:03 PM, Dennis Wage
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Actually, there is a
          branch of a tree that can hit the main element when the wind
          blows. That tree will be removed soon so I'll check it then. </div>
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">The weird thing is the
          other two radios hit repeaters 40 miles away on the same
          jpole. However, the radio in question hits the same repeater
          40 miles away with the crappy stock antenna, but not on the
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          style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Anyway, this is
          offtopic, but I thought maybe I was doing something wrong with
          this firmware radio with chirp.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:38 PM,
          Charley Bratton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
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              - Is the J-pole suspended from a tree, or in close
              proximity (less than 3 ft)?
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              <div>I had a similar experience where one HT wouldn’t hit
                one of the three nearby 2m repeaters.   Lowering the
                J-Pole a few feet away from the supporting limb made a
                significant difference.  Other 2m repeaters seemed
                unaffected.   Other radios seemed unaffected.  Once I
                found an answer, I stopped looking for other solutions,
                so no, not a full scientific work-up.</div>
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                          <div>On Jun 19, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Dennis Wage
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                                have 3 UV-5R's</div>
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                                style="font-family:monospace,monospace">All
                                three of them need their own *.img file
                                because they have different firmwares.</div>
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                                style="font-family:monospace,monospace">They
                                are all programmed with same channels
                                and settings and all work fairly well
                                for what I need.</div>
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                                style="font-family:monospace,monospace">However,
                                believe it or not, one of them WILL NOT
                                work with my J-Pole antenna. When I say
                                'will not work' I mean I can't hit any
                                of the repeaters I normally use. It
                                works perfectly, in fact really well
                                with supplied antenna and with my dual
                                band home made ground plane. With my MFJ
                                power meter it also shows a full watt
                                more output power than the other 2?</div>
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                                style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Is
                                there anything in my programming the
                                phone that could cause this?</div>
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