John,
First, what kind of area are you trying to cover? Are you rural,
suburban. metro? Low-band works great in the boonies but not very well in
urban canyons. High power is very easy to come by on six and ten meters. 100
miles+ mobile to base is common here in the flatlands. 300 watt bases are
cheap, relative to hi-V or UHF. (In the 50's the local State Police ran
3kw. on 39 mhz.)
Some ARES/RACES units use two meters and 440 for in-county work and use
six meters for regional/state-wide communication. Six has the advantage of
not being very crowded and works great point-to-point.
The X 9000 usually will cover both six and ten meters at the same time.
Antennas that do may be an issue, though. Since the receiver has such a wide
front end (even though it does have a remarkable dynamic range), it probably
would not be the best choice for repeater use. A narrow band front end is
usually an asset on a repeater. Then again if you have many of them give it
a try.
The transmitter is usually good for 100 watts but not in continuous
repeater service. You'd want to back way off on power out and still need to
blow a lot of air over it.
You would need two radios for a repeater, one to receive and one to
transmit.
If it was up to me I think I'd use some of the Syntor X 9000's for
trading stock for a Micor or Mastr II low-band base station. Check out what
X 9000s bring on ebay.
Good luck,
Al, K9SI
> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:20:13 -0000
> From: "John Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Syntor X 9000 Low Band 6m-10m Rpt?
>
>
> Hello to the group.
>
> Can anyone tell me if the Syntor X 9000 will actually cover 6 and 10
> meters at the same time (not duplexing) without serious degradation
> on tx or rx performance? Also, someone is trying to tell me that
> these radios have an automatic antenna tuning unit in them??? Our
> leader has programmed several and they do seem to work, allthough, I
> haven't put one on the service monitor to see what the real
> performance is like.
>
> Additionally, has anyone ever used a pair of these to make a repeater?
>
> Our ARES group just recieved a bunch of these (most without control
> cables) and our zealous leader thinks we need to move to Low Band.
>
> I am just looking for some facts before I shoot my mouth off. I am
> trying to convince the ARES group that we need to stick to our VHF
> and UHF interests and not complicate things further with low band. A
> friend and I have 6 meter box that works extremely well but I still
> think we should focus on shorter wavelengths. ;-)
>
> Feel free to reply off list if you wish.
>
> Thanks in advance. John Everson ab6li
>
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