By the nature of the beast, if one buys and builds
a Hamtronics repeater from kits, you will learn
quite a bit, while trading time and money vs buying
a premade unit.
There is something to be said for the mechanical
build of the converted commercial radio, but a well
done kit project can also be well made.
It would be hard to compare the electronic operation
of the two without using specific radio/kit models.
I have love hate relationships with both kits and
commercial conversions.
Hamtronics stuff is fun to make and works pretty well,
I've got some late 70's early 80's Hamtronics gear
still in regular operation. Good old diode matrix
ID Board, the COR-2, autopatch-1 on six meter strips
chugging along since late 1980 without fail.
Back then, you mostly bought and built kits, now you
can buy things pre-made if you don't have the time.
cheers,
skipp
ps: Yep, that was/is me in the old Hamtronics Paper
and now Online Catalog with the long time positive
user feedback. Darn 24 plus year old kits won't die...
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