Iain, you make a good point. In my situation, it's probably not worth doing. It is kind of nice to know if you're doubling with someone however. But yeah, even if I have a dual-receive node radio... my HT or whatever would also have to be capable of being able to listen and transmit at the same time. I was just curious how people do it. It sounds like I would need a repeater for the node and of some kind of dual-receive radio to talk to it on that can receive while it's transmitting. That sounds way too spendy just to avoid doubling.

On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 1:37:54 PM iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar@dseven.org> wrote:
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