[Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread Al Wolfe
Originally Decon was just a mixture of corn meal and portland cement, hardly dangerous poisons. The principle was that rats and mice cannot regurgitate what they have eaten. Then the cement would harden and the rodent would starve. Somewhere along the line Warifin, a blood

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread Joe
An old trick was to leave a Brillo pad around, or better yet use it to stuff the holes and cracks. The theory was that the mice would eat the fat based soap that was in the pad and the steel pieces would kill them. This goes back many years, so I don't know if Brillo pads are still made the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] PA brick

2009-07-30 Thread g3...@talktalk.net
Norm I guess we will have to keep tabs on each other and see who finds first ! Andy G3UEQ Original Message: - From: NORM KNAPP nkn...@twowayradio.net Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:28:55 -0500 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] PA brick I have a

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread Vernon Densler
First throw 3 pythons in there. Leave them for a few weeks. I would say leave them forever, but when it gets cold they will try to warm themselves on the repeater and if they get stuck they will cause a big mess. So since you probably won't be able to find the pythons you have to thrown in a

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Micor manuals in pdf ?

2009-07-30 Thread Grady
Barry, Try this page... http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/micor-index.html Grady W4GLE --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Barry ate...@... wrote: I have both vhf and uhf Micor repeaters just inherited , Both appear to be 60 watt units and are HUGE ( about 50kg)so any

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Hp 8921a test set

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Zimmerman
Any handheld or mobile radio will work. A scanner would even be appropriate. Scott Scott Zimmerman Amateur Radio Call N3XCC 474 Barnett Road Boswell, PA 15531 kerinvale wrote: Ill try that .which is ht you refer to Thank You, Ian Wells, Kerinvale Comaudio, 361 Camboon

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Hp 8921a test set

2009-07-30 Thread kerinvale
I followed the unit test procedure and it failed on filter output detector output variable att,auto range att,duplex detector(no signal) Thank You, Ian Wells, Kerinvale Comaudio, 361 Camboon Road.Biloela.4715 Phone 0749922574 or 0409159932 www.kerinvalecomaudio.com.au ---Original

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread ae6zm
Just a comment on the SS scrubbing pads - I use them for soldering iron cleaners (stuff it in a small can) and for paint/varnish removal, rust removal, etc. I buy mine at the dollar store, 3 or 4 on a card for, you guessed it, a dollar. Wes AE6ZM VE7ELE ARRL Technical Specialist AEC Placer

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Robinson
Afternoon Wes, please send my regards to chuck and Kacie and crew, I havent been to an ARES in placer in a few years now. I hope the team is doing well, and I may be in to visit late this year. On topic now, the go to the local machine shop and ask them for the floor sweepings after a good day

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Micor manuals in pdf ?

2009-07-30 Thread Barry
Great and thanks.. lookes like the uhf is working so now to find a home for it .. completely bullitproof it seems To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com From: w4...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:44:12 + Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Micor manuals

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Decoder project MDC

2009-07-30 Thread radio5000
Mark took ?Matthew's librarys and wrote a windows app with them. http://antistatic.org/winmdcd/ I use it, works great. ? Only downside, no aliases (no, not Jennifer Gardner). Will -Original Message- From: Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent:

[Repeater-Builder] Talking clock has failed on our RC-85 V5.2 FW Fixed!

2009-07-30 Thread wa6mha_glen
Thanks to all of you for your replies. It seems it was the Y2K issue. After reading all the replies here, and the info in the links given, the fix was tried and it worked! This was done many years ago by a past member and it was forgotten about until this month! I guess it may have been July,