On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Skyler F <electricity440@gmail.com> wrote:
The easiest way would be a cross band repeater, have it transmit on uhf, and receive on vhf or vice versa.
Then use the baofeng radio to transmit to your node, they are cheap and they can transmit on a different band then they receive on.
That doesn't give you *full* duplex, though - because the Baofeng won't receive while it's transmitting. You could do it with a separate receiver (i.e. total of four radios)... but what's the point? So someone can interrupt you if you get too long-winded??? I'm not sure what problem Elden is trying to solve (if any). The main reason for a repeater vs. a simplex node would be if you need to service multiple radio users in the local area, and they are not all within range of eachother (but are all within range of the node site). If you only have a simplex node in that case, the radio users would not be able to hear eachother - they'd only hear the remote users via the node/link. If the node is in your garage, and for your personal use, you probably don't have that problem. 73, ~iain / N6ML