Good morning all, We had one of the TE systems amps on a 440 link pair (100 watt) for about 5 years. It was a very long link path 49 miles. We still have the amp it is now in service on our Upper Pottsgrove 440 repeater and has been for about two years. It has blowers and has never failed. Our long link is now on 1296 and we have even talked of up-dating that link to 900 MHz. With all the high power paging stuff around these days. All of our new repeater amps for 147,222,440 and 927 on the Metro-Comm network are all Crescend. in fact all of our repeater but one use Cresend repeater amps. We even have three 50 watters on the 3 GMRS repeaters I own. But I would buy a TE systems again they work very well at least the one we have. Now I have never had to send it back for any thing. Many years of service and not one failure. Good luck! 73 Russ, W3CH Trustee, Metro-Comm, INC. W3PS repeater system.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: te systems > > I have been running a TE Systems paging amp on my 147.16 machine for the > last 8 months and so far so good, no problems. Because of the influence of > a prior employer I did add two fans right on top of the heat sink though. > Bob Bell believed you could never have to many fans on a radio. He had 7 > fans on an old Canadian Marconi UHF 7 watt repeater. The only thing that > kept it from getting to "airborne" in wind gusts was the AC cord, when it > got to high it would unplug itself and settle back to the ground! It was a > joke around Bell Communications in Fort Worthless, Texas, guess you had to > be there..... > ;>) > > Paul > WB5IDM > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: skipp025 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: te systems > > > > > TE has a mixed bag opinion or love-hate > reputation among the VHF/UHF SSB/DX crowd > here in NorCal. . > > They/he makes great stuff, but when it has > a problem, look out. They have ads in some > of the Amateur Mags, but no web site I've > ever seen. He will send you a catalog if you > ask by phone. The yellow catalog sheets are > pretty good for what they are. > > Ham radio is not his bread and butter, more > the commercial side so he has limited time to > deal with Amateurs. His limited time can be > an issue if you're having a problem. > > Every TE amp I have is first rate construction > and operation. I like them, I buy them when > and where possible, but I have one or two friends > who have had problems with their really large > >350 watt amps. Getting them back from service > /repair required threats of driving down to > SoCal after weeks of unanswered phone calls. > > I've never had one of the 15 plus TE amps I > own fail. They really do honk out a nice signal > and they are well designed. > > "There never seems to be a free lunch..." > > cheers, > skipp > > www.radiowrench.com/sonic > > > mch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't appear they have one. I got turned off > > on them when a new amp almost burned down a > > communications building. Call them at (310)478-0591 > > and ask if they have a web site. > > > > Joe M. > > > > Jim B. wrote: > > > > > > Jed Barton wrote: > > > > > > > anyone have the sight for TE systems? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jed > > > > > > No, I can't see them from here... > > > -- > > > Jim Barbour > > > WD8CHL > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/
