[Repeater-Builder] Motorola R1225 UHF

2008-04-03 Thread Cort Buffington
Wise builders, Anyone know how far into the Ham Band the UHF R1225 radio will really go? I know sometimes radio frequencies are limited by the RSS software, and sometimes the radios... and sometimes only by when the radio stops working. I'm interested in getting down into the 438-440

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola R1225 UHF

2008-04-03 Thread rande1
It might be a nice little box, but many of our customers have been plagued with PA failures. Even on the repeaters with constant fans, we have seen many PA failures. Simply reflowing the solder connections in the PA fixes the problem. However it is still an annoyance. We have several 10 watt

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola R1225 UHF

2008-04-03 Thread Cort Buffington
I prefer the 10w version and running it at 1-2 watts with another amp -- I use those for repeaters, both VHF and UHF now (4 in service). As a link transmitter, I'd probably be running 10W versions at about 5W. My question is about how far down into the amateur 70cm band the radios will go?

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola R1225 UHF

2008-04-03 Thread Tom Manning
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:35 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola R1225 UHF Wise builders, Anyone know how far into the Ham Band the UHF R1225 radio will really go? I know sometimes radio frequencies are limited by the RSS software, and sometimes the radios