Retevis RT97 Portable Repeater First Look - Review Part 1

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[TRIPPLEJAY]

Very nice bit of kit but have to say the price is crazy. I made a bluetooth gateway from Baofeng to Zello using VOX and also option of simplex and even take phone calls and even use Google assistant through radio. I'm looking for suitable bluetooth at to be more smaller. My prototype is quite small however I would like it half the size it is. Then put some into production maybe a run of 100.

[CB-RADIO-UK]

Looking forward to part 2 . You going to look inside. Its very well made. Ind quality. Great video bud.

[Mhz]

Hope to see a field test soon. Thanks!

[Taffy]

Nice rundown on the specs.I would like to see how it works when it's up and running

[robc]

Be interesting to see if this could be converted for mmdvm 🤔🤔🤔

[bobalobalie]

Hello, I know this is an old video but, hopefully I can get an answer from you or others. If you have two handhelds with analog scrambler/voice inversion set. Will the repeater still work as normal? With either radio receiving the proper signals and unscrambling? Voice inversion/ scrambling is what I want to use within our buildings and 4 mile farm footprint specifically. I know it’s not DMR encryption secure. But, good enough for our uses. We are a small company and the cost for a fully commercialized DMR system is beyond our means. I’m talking minimum $100k for setup and equipment. We Own/lease 3 frequencies in the UHF range and have 3-7 employees throughout the year. Thanks.

[mikemcdonald]

Should have been an N connector for the antenna so it would be waterproof. They made this rigid well made case then putt on a uhf connector :( UHF is lossy and would like to hook up better coax and run it up a tower in an emergency. Also would like about 30 watts which would be even better.

[samglaim]

It looks a really interesting 'off the shelf' repeater and the hope would be that more variants would be available soon but a great start from Retevis .... big thumbs up. 73

[BlackHorseMilitia]

I'm sharing this with my guys. I've been interested in using two Wouxan mobile radios to do the same thing.

[TonyLing]

My 70cms DMR amateur repeater has a 10MHz split

[KDGIY]

Very pricey, I use a tyt th 9800 because of the crossband repeat function. Plus you can use it as a quad band radio. And fm CB.

[DRNEGOLICIS]

wonder if theres a place to connect an ID'er

[hyder]

Can two repeaters work on same frequencies rx 144.00 tx 155.00 placed apart 20 km from each other to enhance range? Or is it only 1 repeater will work

[jamalnettles]

I like that repeater that repeater will be good for our security company and I want to know more about it thank you

[djaymigz]

Do they sell it set ? Is it ready to use ?

[mumi]

License? Callsign transmit? Remote shutdown? Don't think this could be legally used in Germany. Probably not in US either.

[stephenwright]

would this work OK on PMR 446? if so can you give a demonstration im sure a lot of people would be interested thanks....

[silentkiler]

Can the power output be reduced from 10W?

[aaronmonk]

What licence would be needed to use this?

[mickgatz]

@Ringway Manchester > awesome video. :) Thanx for sharing this!
how can i contact you directly????
Cheers!
Mick