--- In [email protected], Ken Arck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well hey there Skip! Long time no chat!
Unfair, you've changed callsign (I think). My memory isn't that great, but I remember a Ken that lived on a house boat in San Pedro, was that you? What was your call in the "good old" days? What was the remote call? That'll probably jog the memory record from "off line storage" ! 73's Skip WB6YMH > 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 [email protected], 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/
