How long do I cut the limbs for PMR 446?

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Your 10m of RG58 and the connectors are probably eating around 30% of your signal.

So that's not the main problem you are getting.

Most likely NR Jr needs to wander around a bit to find some sweet spots of transmitted signal between your base station and the village.

Another approach to finding out how your base station signal is getting out is to create an automatic beacon. This is easily done with certain cheap MP3 players. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBD1jgmJjrc With this operational, you can wander around the local area monitoring the transmitted signals. This will give you a map of viable transmit and receive locations. You will find that on occasion just moving a few feet will make a difference.