> - repeaters are expensive. Expect at the very least
> to spend $4-5k
> for a very simple building top site, more if you
> need to climb
> towers, etc. Actually, most of my money for a
> repeater goes into the
> controller, duplexer, feedline and antenna. The
> actual radio portion
> is only 15-20% of my cost.
>
> - consider the Motorola Mitrek series transceiver.
> Smaller, more
> sensitive rx, and you can get them at give away
> prices.
>
> - if you want to get serious abt building repeaters,
> you will need a
> good service monitor (a few more thousand dollars)
>
> - consider 440 band as your first one, everything is
> smaller and a
> bit less $$ (ant, duplexer) and with the 5Mhz
> splits, a bit easier to
> set up. Yes, you don't get the same range, do get a
> bit better
> building penetration in urban areas.
>
> - repeaters are fun, repeaters are tempermental,
> repeaters are
> expensive, repeaters are very frustrating at times.
>
> good luck John/N4SJW
>
I agree with the cost part. A good antenna will be
around $ 500, about that for feedline and connectors,
same for the controller. The 2 meter duplexers are
hard to find used. Not sure of the new price
now,maybe $ 1000 to $ 1500. The 440 duplexers are
about a tenth of that.
The radios can be had for $ 50 to $ 100 and about half
thatn much more for the crystals or recrystling an
ICOM . In other words, the radios are almost free, it
is the other options that cost. Sort of like computer
printers, they almost give them away but eat you up
with the xost of the ink. I recieved a photo printer
for Christmas, prints on it cost me about $ .80 each.
Wall-Mart will do them for about$ .25 each and I
don't need that special photo printer.
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