Ahem ... The was a regional ham radio swapmeet in the Salem, Oregon area recently. One fellow was selling high-band brown handle GE Mastr II's for $5.00 each.
I feel bad about not buying all of them so I could say in the future "Here, use this!!!" instead of reading about the Regency, Spectrum and Wilson repeater attempts out there. What is said about hindsight? Neil Mathew Quaife wrote: > > Objective to changing the reciever is to sperate it from the transmitter, > when I first started this project, the regency repeaters were at hand, but > as I play with more and more, find that they need a little help. I'm just > waiting on the new receivers to get here. I'm sure the GE century has got > to be somewhat better than the Regency. A preamp would be nice, but > hopefully I can get by without it. Plans are to later on put in two voters > to cover a few parts of the county that will be troublesome. > > Mathew > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Virden Clark Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Help on Interference > > > Rather than re-invent the wheel why not try carving the helical from a > > dead old high band rx tray and add to the front of yours to make it a > > bit narrower than it is barefoot, if you can find a mastr2 with 5 > > helicals you could ad a pre-amp and convert the near hits to misses. > > > > Mathew Quaife wrote: > > > > > > Well I narrowed down parts of the problem, the first being the wide as a > 2x4 > > > Regency receiver, which is going to be changed out, and the other is a > local > > > ham using 100 watts to talk to this machine, when in it really only > needs > > > about 7 watts to hit it full quieting with minimal antenna height. My > > > repeater actually is just gettting underway, new coordination. So each > day > > > is a new adventure for me. Having not played with FM and etc....for > about > > > 15 years, still trying to remember, kinda hard to get all the cobwebs > out of > > > the brain. Thanks. > > > > > > Mathew > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Virden Clark Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:26 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Help on Interference > > > > > > > Try using the math on the IF of your rx to see what is making them mix > > > > on your freq, how long have the 2 machines been co-existing > on-the-air? > > > > If it were one or 2 users you would know it rather than the entire > time > > > > the machine is active, can you see how clean the signal is from that > > > > machine, I doubt if 50 miles is gonna make trouble unless the have > some > > > > really wide spurs and then every open rx is gonna see some falsing. > > > > -- > > 73...Clark Beckman N8PZD > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > 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/
