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Took the repeater out of the basement the other day for a boy scout event, turned it on, and noted low audio on the receiving portable. repeater is two maxtracs and a rick together. receive maxtrac sounds fine. and if you key up the transmit maxtrac it comes across the portable load and clear, but when you go portable to portable...very low audio... any ideas?? thanks

What are you using for the R*I*C*K ?

There should be some kind of volume / deviation setting inside.

Also, what pin on the TX maxtrac are you using for the audio input. if I recall, ine is more sensitive than the other.

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It is the motorola rick and cables. worked fine last year when i used it last. so not sure whats going on now

Greetings:

Likely it is a loose connection in one of the RICK cables or something of that nature.

If nothing in the connections or programming was changed, I would suspect a poor connection somewhere, just basic contact oxidation while the unit was sitting unused.

Several things you can try, first, reseat the cable connections.

If that doesn't do it, open up the RICK and find pot R23, there should be a pot on either side of the DIP switches, the one nearer the center of the board would be the one. Take a small screwdriver and slighty turn the control back and forth a couple of times, you shouldn't need to move it much, just enough to sort of clean off the contact, try to get it back in the same spot it was at when you started.

You might also try flipping the DIP switches a couple of times, the signal goes through a couple of them. Flip each one a couple of times and put it back to where it was.

Just another common problem with the R.I.C.K. design. My repeater module does not suffer these problems.
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As was mentioned, the cheeper cables use the tin plated connector pins. Unpluging and pluging them back in may resolve the problem for now.