Funny you should mention Regency. My nickname for them has always been "re-junk-cy."
And while we're bashing different manufacturers of repeater equipment, there's at least one controller out there that is a real dog. Been several revisions to it, but it stays a dog. Need we go on about antennas. Some real scrap aluminum and fiberglass out there. Yet people continue to use these products and are happy with them. I guess to each their own. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve S. Bosshard (NU5D)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:44 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Spectrum Communication et al. > 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 > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
