Gee, they could have had a Genave... Back in the late 70's both Gatesville, N5DDR/R, and Lampasas, W5GFR/R bought Spectrum 2M repeaters. Gatesville had a phone patch, and Lampasas was stand alone. Both used single antenna, and WP641 duplexers. Lampasas is dead. Gatesville is still running without patch.
Seems like there was a heat sink problem on DC regulator driver transistor, and some of the pretty pushbutton switches became un-reliable. Also periodic (once a year or so) frequency adj was needed. I do not recall any spurious transmit trouble or interference complaints. Seems there was nothing really outstanding or really bad - just that in 1980 they were pretty inovative. At that time MastrII was new, (ever give up on a 40W UHF IPA?) Mastr Pro was still current (FMR) RCA still had a CF1000, Moto had the Micor, and Aerotron was in the running. Also Regency had a 100 Watt box. We won't get into the E. F. Johnson line at that time (527) although the FleetCom II was a pretty nice box. BTW - Gatesville is still running, and Lampasas will be resurrected when time permits. It also seems like the 146.97 folks in Waco had a HamTronics that was a real problem child and spurious, and don't know what became of the station. Seems like they never got the problems solved. My 2 cents, Happy Thanksgiving, steve nu5d ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOHN MACKEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [[Repeater-Builder] Spectrum Communication SCR1000 VHF Manual]] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.538 / Virus Database: 333 - Release Date: 11/11/2003 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
