Howdy, everyone. I have an option to buy a working, used repeater from a
friend of mine.
It's a Motorola, formerly owned by our local ambulance company. Looks like it
was in
operation from 1988 until at least 1994.
The model is C64RCB-3105AT. According to Kevin's info on the web page, it is a
Compra-Station, between 70 and 99 watts, 403-512 MHz, RC series (?), 120 VAC,
PL, Narrow channel, T1/R1, DC remote, and RT repeater. It's on 462.975 /
467.975,
with a PL.
It looks like everything's there... PA, exciter, card cage, reciever, power
supply, and
the 4 cavities. It has the Squelch Gate, TimeOut timer, DC transfer, Station
control
and Line driver cards installed. I have NOT turned it on yet, wondering if
there might
be some issue with the p/s caps, being suddenly turned on after being off for
several
years, don't want it to go up in smoke, eh? :-)
SO... this brings up a bunch of questions. Some directly apply, others, well,
we're not
all amateurs here, are we? :-)
1) He's asking $200. Does that sound like a good price for it? :-)
2) What's the duty cycle? And, if it said narrow channel, is it 12.5 MHz
spacing,
or 25? I'm eventually going to put it in my hospital, which ironically does
NOT have
any equipment on this frequency or any of the local med frequencies, but it'd be
nice to put in 12.5-capable equipment, otherwise I may just convert it to
amateur.
3) Our competing hospital, 1.5 miles away (only 2 of us left here in town) is
licensed
for all the med frequencies but I don't think they use any of them. The
ambulance system
(our hospitals jointly owns the ambulance) dropped all its' med licenses a
couple of years
ago... In fact, I'm not sure they have current licenses for their HEAR radios,
and they use
city-owned radios for dispatch and talking to the hospitals. So... what kind of
traffic is
allowed on a med freq?
4) And finally, I know I got to go thru our radio coordination (IAFC, I
believe)
before I file with the FCC but... trying to look at FCC form 1070, I think we'd
be
under LMRS, PMRS, below 470 MHz, which would be $150... right? And I
wonder if I really need to go thru the IAFC? :-)
I thank you for your time.
_Ray_ KB�STN
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