Skipp - Sure you occasionally have someone who has had good luck with Spectrum equipment. But the VAST MAJORITY of us have had BAD experiences with the equipment. BTW - we're not all dumb techs!! Many of us have several years experience in amateur radio, or make our living professionally in the technical side of radio (or both).
Myself, I've been a ham for over 20 years, have worked in the two-way radio field, have done communications tech work in the military (& still do as a reservist), and currently am the Chief Engineer in an FM broadcast station. "skipp025" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's very disappointing to me reading most > of the replies to Kevin's request for help > repairing his Spectrum Repeater. Most of > you would rather fire off wise cracks about > Spectrum equipment than help him out. > > While Spectrum seems to be very corneous > rectum about customer service, their products > do work for the most part, when properly set > up and cared for. It's not rocket science to > research and improve even the most basic > circuits. > > Most of you appear to have never seen a VHF > Engineering Receiver, early repeater boards > from 60's and 70's. This would include the > famous Clegg 220 repeater made from a split > radio. Early repeater layouts are where many > of us "cut our teeth" and learned how to make > these less than perfect circuits perform as > best possible. > > I've got quite a bit of Spectrum equipment; > their more recent receivers are pretty nice. > Their transmitters are a mixed bag, but every > one I have seems to work as expected for what > each circuit is. > > So Kevin, first off� I probably have the manual > for the unit you have, would be willing to > work with you off the list to keep the "know > it all's" from laughing too hard. The temperature > problem you report is not that uncommon from > the type of layout installed in your unit, not > specific to the Spectrum Brand. The early 90's > unit I have similar to yours has never moved > more than 300 Hz since I bought it. > > There's probably no reason your unit can't be > made to operate well. > Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
