Motorola RICK

[Waddster]

I bought a Motorola RICK connected to a M120 transmitter and a Maxtrac receiver with a Celwave duplexer. Both the radios transmit and receive as they should but the system will not repeat? When powered-up the repeater kicks in for around 1.5 seconds but will not repeat. The green repeat light on the RICK is on and so is the set-up light. Everything is appears to have been programmed correctly. Is there a source for online RICK manuals? Thanks for any help.

[HLA]

the repeat enable light is the only one that should be on and the cor light should come on when it's repeating, the setup light should not be on in regular use.

[IMBEJames]

The setup light may not mean anything depending on how the radios are wired into the RICK. The local Setup button toggles 12VDC to use as "ignition sense" to turn the Tx radio on/off.

http://www.batlabs.com/rick.html

Take a look at the worksheet in the links on the bottom of the page. May be a good start. Also, any imore information about your setup, like accessrory pin programming and whether you have OEM cables or homebrew, etc, would be helpful.

[Waddster]

The cables appear to be Motorola OEM but I don't know about the radios acc programming. I ordered a Motorola RICK manual, I hope it states how to program the radios acc connectors and radio types compatability. I have never used a RICK and know almost nothing about how to set it up. The M120 is the transmitter programmed for 462... with a TX PL and the Maxtrac is the receiver programmed for 467.... with a RX PL. The maxtrac receives but the M120 will not transmit (no repeat). The system kicks in and transmits for around three seconds when it's first powered on and shows around 10 watts out of the duplexer into a dummy load.

[larryfire26]

You may want to check the tunning of the duplexer!

It may be out of tune! Seems like the transmitter wants to transmit but high SWR may be shutting down the transmit!

Just another thing to double check!

Hope this helps

Larry

[Rayjk110]

Is the system setup to TX and RX the same PL tone?

I am running a somewhat similar setup as a backup ham repeater (GR300 with Maxtrac and GM300) and if the tones are different it will not repeat, or act as you described. Although this can be resolved by setting the DIP switches properly.

[hb001]

Iwill tried to verify if the Tx radio work's properly first. You shoud be able to hook a palm or desk mic directly into the radio and key it up then measure the output with a watt meter or a service monitor without the duplexer in place. Also, see if your able to describe the model # if it's a lo w power or high power model.