Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-02-02 Thread wd8chl
nj902 wrote: --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, wd8chl wd8...@... wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non-narrowbandable equipment in use, and we're not just talking about Micor/MastrII vintage equipment. Maxtacs, MSF's, even early Quantars ...

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-02-02 Thread wd8chl
n...@no6b.com wrote: At 1/16/2009 13:38, you wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non-narrowbandable equipment in use, and we're not just talking about Micor/MastrII vintage equipment. Maxtacs, MSF's, even early Quantars and MastrIII's. Pretty much anything made before, I think, 1996-ish.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-02-02 Thread no6b
At 2/2/2009 13:33, you wrote: n...@no6b.com wrote: At 1/16/2009 13:38, you wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non-narrowbandable equipment in use, and we're not just talking about Micor/MastrII vintage equipment. Maxtacs, MSF's, even early Quantars and MastrIII's. Pretty much

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Morris WA6ILQ
At 04:33 AM 01/17/09, you wrote: Why pay a bench tech when you can sell a new radio, with the FCC doing the marketing for you? Besides...do shops even do board level repairs any more? That ought to open a can of worms From a job posting a month ago... (don't bother asking me who it is, the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Kelsey
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? At 1/16/2009 13:38, you wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non-narrowbandable equipment in use, and we're not just talking about Micor/MastrII vintage equipment. Maxtacs, MSF's

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread w7trh
out of the box. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: n...@no6b.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? At 1/16/2009 13:38, you wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Kelsey
-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? Hello Group, Isn't it true that the radio must be on the List of type excepted units? I have a brochure for the Midland syn1 radio that says it is capable of the 12.5 kHz splits and Narrow dev. (2.5kHz). I was told that the Syn1

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread Mike Dietrich
) years has been narrow band capable right out of the box. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: n...@no6b.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread w7trh
You said it all William! Somewhere I had a link to the list of radios that were authorized to operate NB. I will attempt to find it and put on the list. It is going to be interesting, and maybe expensive, although our FD. purchased some narrow/wide band commercial ICOM mobile units (8 ch.). The

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Summerhawk
. Peter Summerhawk -Original Message- From: Mike Dietrich m.dietr...@peoplepc.com Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 15:03 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? As long as you turn the modulation down to 2.5kc dev max

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread MCH
@yahoogroups.com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Saturday, January 17, 2009 4:50 PM *Subject:* Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? Hello Group, Isn't it true that the radio must be on the List of type excepted units? I have

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread MCH
Threaded... William E. Janes wrote: Just turning down the deviation circuitry to 2.5 kHz will reduce the amount of deviation, but not the bandwidth of the emission overall. Turning down the deviation is simply not a legal option. Huh? NBFM BW = (2x5)+(2x3)=16 kHz BW SNFM BW =

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread no6b
At 1/17/2009 15:54, you wrote: There is a second caveat to turning down the deviation since a lot of transmitters encode either digital or tone squelch injected without components (pots) allowing adjustment of the level, the transmitter will be sending those at +\- 600-800 Hz before

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-17 Thread Jim Miller WB5OXQ in Waco
I purchased a used MSF 5000 UHF repeater from a Motorola shop and they installed the narrow band filters and set it up for a nb commercial channel for me and it works great. It does not deviate past 2.5, receives well and the ctcss noise is not noticeable on the stations. Having programmed

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-16 Thread wd8chl
9:47 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? But, most top-of-the-line commercial equipment that has been sold for the last ten years is already programmable for narrow band. Perhaps you're thinking about low-tier stuff, like the SM-50? 73, Eric Lemmon

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2009-01-16 Thread no6b
At 1/16/2009 13:38, you wrote: I absolutely do. There's a TON of non-narrowbandable equipment in use, and we're not just talking about Micor/MastrII vintage equipment. Maxtacs, MSF's, even early Quantars and MastrIII's. Pretty much anything made before, I think, 1996-ish. Why would Micors Mastr

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2008-12-12 Thread Eric Lemmon
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of The Marlins Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:16 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? On the other hand, there will be thousands of radios coming into the ham world in the next two years

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding?

2008-12-12 Thread Chuck Kelsey
: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:47 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Are you ready for narrowbanding? But, most top-of-the-line commercial equipment that has been sold for the last ten years is already programmable for narrow band. Perhaps you're thinking about low-tier stuff, like the SM-50? 73