Re: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeater - A Case History

2005-01-04 Thread Bob Dengler
At 1/2/2005 09:03 PM, you wrote: Kevin, Yes, it is asymmetrical. Each of the three high-pass resonators has two black plastic plugs near the connector end, while the low-pass resonators each have one plastic plug. A Celwave engineer told me that the 5085-1 is manufactured to order, and that

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeater - A Case History

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Lemmon
Kevin, Yes, it is asymmetrical. Each of the three high-pass resonators has two black plastic plugs near the connector end, while the low-pass resonators each have one plastic plug. A Celwave engineer told me that the 5085-1 is manufactured to order, and that the coupling loops are

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeater - A Case History

2005-01-02 Thread Kevin Custer
Eric Lemmon wrote: It comprises six helical resonators in a notch-only configuration. Its insertion loss at RX is 1.1 dB, and at TX is 1.4 dB. The notch depth at RX is 92.5 dB and at TX is 79.4 dB. These are very good numbers, better than what is needed for zero desense in this

[Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeater - A Case History

2004-12-31 Thread Eric Lemmon
I recently built a portable 2m repeater that is about the size of a bowling bag and weighs about the same. It is built into an SKB carrying case that is rugged, dripproof, and good-looking. The secret of getting a full-duplex radio and the duplexer into a box measuring about one cubic foot in