On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 03:00:05AM -0000, genedathe wrote: > How many of you repeater owners have an active 1.2 DV repeater on the > air? Do you see any actual use?
I don't, but then I'm the only user on my entire stack. :-) > 1.2 is strictly line of sight, and one really needs a high gain > antenna and expensive feedline for reliable work. Why operate on a > band where losses are so high, when 2M will triple the range with a > far less expensive radio? Actually, 440 is the better choice, IMAO, because it's usually much easier to get a pair on that band, and everything else - duplexer, antennas, and so on - are smaller and easier to deal with. If all else is the same, I'd strongly recommend a single-band system go on 440. Once upon a time, however, I had a Standard 440/1200 handheld, and actually got to use it on 1200 a few times. 1200 wasn't that hard to deal with, and fuzzy memory (it's been 20 years now) seems to tell me that it actually penetrated buildings better than 440, though that could be an artifact of the systems involved. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC at K6ZC port B http://www.conmicro.com http://www.k6zc.org http://www.tronguy.net http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes, that's me!) http://www.hercules-390.org
