Like my Heath-kit VTVM.
Neil - WA6KLA
skipp025 wrote:
>
> 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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