Crossband Repeat on a Yaesu 8800r with an FT-60r

[4x4mike]

I've got a Yaesu 8800R as do some of you here. I've got a question regarding using crossband repeat using a handheld along with the 8800. I don't want to get into the legality of crossband but only gather some info from hopefully someone who's used it.

Let's say there is an event and a radio club is using their repeater and you have permission to participate and use the repeater. Let's say you want to TX to the 8800 using 440 simplex and have the 8800 rebroadcast your TX to the repeater. But you also want to monitor the repeater on an FT-60r?

I've got the crossband part down and the transmission is fine. I've also activated the Dual Watch feature on my FT-60. Problem is the DW only checks the repeater frequency every 5 seconds and goes back to the 440 simplex frequency even if there is traffic on the repeater.

In a perfect world I want to be able to monitor the repeater frequency and communicate with it using 440 simplex to my 8800 using crossband repeat.

Am I missing anything here?

Thanks in advanced and sorry if the above is confusing.

 

[CardinalFJ60]

hmmm...maybe check your scanning settings?

total stab in the dark...on my HTs I can set the scan to flip back to scanning after a certain duration, after the transmission have stopped or maybe hang on that frequency. Perhaps the DW setting would act the same based on the scanning settings?? (again, total guess).

 

[ih88hi10]

The way I do it most of the time is to use what is known as locked band repeat. Where you TX on your simplex channel and the 8800 retransmits you on the repeater's input/uplink frequency it only listens on the input so the 8800 would not be transmitting the repeater back on your simplex frequency. You simply listen to the repeater's output on the other side of your ft-60. Is that what you're trying to do?

 

[4x4mike]

The way I do it most of the time is to use what is known as locked band repeat. Where you TX on your simplex channel and the 8800 retransmits you on the repeater's input/uplink frequency it only listens on the input so the 8800 would not be transmitting the repeater back on your simplex frequency.

Yes this is what I was doing. TX 440 simplex from my HT to the 8800 and the 8800 broadcast on the repeater(2m).

You simply listen to the repeater's output on the other side of your ft-60. Is that what you're trying to do?

Yes. All I want to monitor is the repeater (2m) but it seems like the FT-60 has to be on the 440 simplex channel to transmit to the 8800. If this is the case it seems like there is more button pushing than necessary. I believe that if I'm tuned to monitor the repeater and key up it will transmit on the repeater. In my case it will be too low of a power to hit it.

 

[ih88hi10]

So can you just set a single channel for...
TX to 440
RX to 144
???

I use locked band repeat a lot but I have never tried to do it with a dualband HT. I mostly use two radios.

 

[4x4mike]

Yes.

Even with a mono band HT and 2m on the 8800 I would be transmitting low power simplex to the 8800 from the HT all the while needing to hear everything on the repeater station. My Bofeng does dual watch really well (like quickly between the two frequencies) and I assume my Yaesu HT would as well but haven't found it yet. The FT60 DW just toggles every 5 seconds then goes back.

 

[Kofoed]

I have an Ft-50 and FT-60. I have not gotten into the 60 much but on the 50 what you need to set up is an "odd split" repeater pair. You'll need to set up a chanel memory and manually punch in the tx and rx freqs, tones, squelch code, etc.

you will then you will tx to your 8800, but then rx on the club machine once you unkey