Makes a nice wheel chocke for a B-17.... No really....
Anything that is not a commercially made repeater made by one of the main stream makers... Motorola GE/MaCom Midland Icom Kenwood Tait Vertex Maybe EFJ (don't care for them too much). Should be stayed away from. A prime example is the Hamtronics series (which are still made) or the Spectrum. Not stable, hard to work on, very little support and no front end. I have a repeater site on a hill here in Austin that I use to test repeaters we are considering for purchase/use by my state agency. The VHF noise floor starts at -67db and gets worse at UHF and is -40 at 800-900 due to tv and trunk systems. Lots of BIG smoke TV, radio broadcast and digital stuff. I have to use a crystal filter system to help knock down the out of band noise (there is almost no VHF emitters on the hill). If the repeater survives and works up there it will work anywhere. So far the only ones that have are the Motorola Quantar and the Midland Base tech III with P-25 (NOT the standard Midland repeater). I don't do MaCom. When they changes the name from GE and sold the company and ceased production of the Mastr II, I dropped them. Just my 2 cents, but it comes the hard way....by testing them. Paul Gilbert Austin, Texas Texas Dept of Transportation Radio Operations On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Cort Buffington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Any feelings on the ACS/MCS/Kendecom dynasty? I'm trying to decide > whether or not to spruce up the club's old repeater as a spare or look for > something different for a spare. I've never had to deal with their RF units > before... Only the Mark IV controller, which I was not real pleased with. > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At 11/22/2008 07:54, you wrote: > > >Brands to stay away from.... > > > >Hamtronics > > > >Maggorie (sp) > > Spectrum. IMO the worst by far. > > Bob NO6B > > > -- > Cort Buffington > H: +1-785-838-3034 > M: +1-785-865-7206 > > > > > >
