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I bought a Diamond SRH771 whip and attached it with a 144/440 tigertail and was able to access our 2m repeater VK6RMJ which is 15-20km away with the low power 1 setting (0.3W). Withe standard rubber ducky I need 5W and hold it too high to talk into without my handheld speaker/mike.
By the way...
I received my DJ-G7 on thursday night,
I didn't realize until this morning (Monday) it was /E not /T.
That explains why I don't have auto repeater shift :-(
But it came already widebanded - otherwise the /E would not operate in our 2m band (144-148) in Australia. so I had a look at the tx...
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