ac0y5 wrote: > I WILL NOT PUT UP CRAP NOR DO I HAVE A N Y TOLORANCE FOR ANY ONE THAT DOES, > PERIOD. I beleave if it is crap in needs to be taken off the air. That is > exactly what I told the trustee of our clubs repeater. I spent many hours > making shure that it as one of the best sounding machines in town and may be > THE best. >73 >ALL >
Sometimes the best sounding repeaters are the ones that need to be looked at more closely. Over occupied bandwidth issues can result in excellent sounding audio, but at the expense of needed filtering to keep things clean an be a good neighbor, especially in a 15 Kc channel spacing world. We had a Spectrum once, it was absolutely the best sounding repeater around by far, but at the expense of precious AF filtering ahead of the modulator. After the charge pump capacitors became dry in the ACC controller we were using and the 15 Kc audio that resulted on the B- rail created a 15 Kc spur, we seriously looked into the audio chain of the Spectrum Exciter. We were surprised that the Low Pass filtering section was essentially non existent. This filter was an "option" that was never installed in most "ham" repeaters delivered from Spectrum from the factory. Spectrum, at least they named them properly..... Just be damn certain you look at it with a SA and continue to do so on a very regular basis. Kevin Custer Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
