Well hey there Skip! Long time no chat! Indeed, the 70's were a very cool time in ham "repeaterdom". Ahhh, how I miss the days of the repeater wars with the GRONK folks down in San Diego!
As you may remember, our system was also located on PV. Our repeater (UHF) was a modified Pulsar II (man I hated those germanium RF transistors!) but it worked pretty well all and all. But I was sure happy to finally replace it with the Quintron (which is still going strong too). Memories......like the corner of my mind............... Ken At 03:23 PM 9/20/2004 -0000, you wrote: > >You beat me by a couple of years. I built a 22S control system from >TTL that was on Palos Verdes and then later on Onyx Peak (9114 >feet). The original controller used octal to set the actual N code >into the 22S, but I later added a 2708 lookup table. *52 put you on >146.52, *34 put you on 146.34/146.94. Since it was all done by a >lookup table it "knew" the band plan and would automatically select >a repeater split if you dialed an input frequency or simplex on the >output if you dialed an output frequency, etc. It did "the right >thing" if you dialed *40 (people from L.A. will know that >frequency). There were commands to force simplex or reverse. I >can't find the schematic any longer, but I did find a control list >dated 12/79 that was after the lookup table was added. My best >guess is 1/79 when it first went on the air. I know my controller >wasn't the first 22S controller as I later compared nodes with Greg >(WB6KCD ?) who that had built a controller before I had. > >It also had cw unkey telemetry that sent the frequency in cw when >you unkeyed. I can't tell you how sick I got of hearing 46 and 52 >in cw over and over and ... It sounded like a good idea at the time. > >Boy those were the days ... we had the only ham box on Onyx peak for >a year or so and could hear 3 states ... then a 2 meter repeater was >installed. The 22S rolled over and died whenever the repeater keyed >up (duh!). > >I'm not sure this matches your "fully frequency agile" definition as >the 22s only covered the top 2 Mhz of the band. > >73's Skip WB6YMH >--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Ken Arck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> Is anyone aware of the earliest use of a synthesized remote base >on an >> amateur repeater? One that allowed full frequency agility? >> >> My take is that it happened in 1976 (and of course, I think I know >who did >> it <g>). >> >> Ken >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------- >> President and CTO - Arcom Communications >> Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories. >> http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html >> We now offer complete Kenwood TKR repeater packages! >> AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 >> http://www.irlp.net > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President and CTO - Arcom Communications Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories. http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html We now offer complete Kenwood TKR repeater packages! AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 http://www.irlp.net 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/
