[Repeater-Builder] Questions on running two antennas

2008-05-03 Thread Peter Dakota Summerhawk
Morning, I want to be able to run two antennas one for the Omni and one for the yagi that I want pointed to the link repeater we are getting ready to install. What’s the best way to accomplish this? Both antennas are going to be Ham radio digi for APRS and both on the VHF band. The main radio at

[Repeater-Builder] Questions

2008-01-28 Thread n9wys
OK, I just got my 900 machine back up and running again this morning. For those who don't remember, this is a MaxTrac Receiver / Com Spec TP-3200 controller / GTX exciter / Motorola STF2520A paging PA arrangement. Anyhow - the machine had no audio output at all. nada, zilch. only a dead key.

[Repeater-Builder] questions re mod of Mot. Spectra UHF vco board

2006-12-25 Thread Jeffrey Pawlan
I successfully, (but the success was only temporary), modified a whole bunch of Spectra 450-480 (range 3) split radios to work on the ham bands. The modifications I did to the RF front-end resonators worked well and requires no more work. The mod I did to the VCO board seems to only be temporary

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Questions on Kenwood TKR-750 Repeater

2005-06-04 Thread Russ
Message - From: XYZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:50 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Questions on Kenwood TKR-750 Repeater Hello All, We bought a kenwood repeater TKR-750 and 2 diamond F23 antennas plus the programming software

[Repeater-Builder] Questions on Kenwood TKR-750 Repeater

2005-06-03 Thread XYZ
Hello All, We bought a kenwood repeater TKR-750 and 2 diamond F23 antennas plus the programming software. Unfortunately we can't hear anything beyond one kilometer. Here are the frequencies we are using: TX 15900 RX 16000 TONE1413 The equipment are being used in africa in a remote

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Questions on Kenwood TKR-750 Repeater

2005-06-03 Thread Eric Lemmon
Since you bought two antennas, I must assume that you aren't using a duplexer. You need at least 80 dB of isolation, which means that the RX and TX antennas must be separated vertically by at least 135 feet. This will work only if the RX antenna feedline is 100% shielded, as in Heliax. A

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Questions

2005-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do you want to build a vhf, uhf, or other band repeater? How much do you plan to invest in the project? And what space is avaliable for the finished project? Are you going in to a low rf enviroment or a high rf repeater site? Simplicity says 2 back to back radios through an interface.

[Repeater-Builder] Questions

2005-05-09 Thread maweiler29
I am trying to build my first repeater I have a degree in electronics and figure i could make a low coverage repeater for local use. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a simple first build? The amount of messages here is overwhelming and is not easy to search. Thanks! 73's N3OST

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Questions

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Custer
maweiler29 wrote: I am trying to build my first repeater I have a degree in electronics and figure i could make a low coverage repeater for local use. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a simple first build? The amount of messages here is overwhelming and is not easy to search.