Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote:
> At 04:53 AM 5/16/05, you wrote:
>
>
>>I'm in the market for 4 identical receiver's in the UHF 430 Mhz
>>range. Would like to find 4 of them, like the GE ER41 UHF versions,
>>or something compatible, and as cheap as I can get them. After some
>>thought and debate, If I can find 4 of them, I will not use the TM-
>>V7's that I originally planned to use. Let me know what you have and
>>total cost shipped to Indiana. Thanks.
>>
>>Mathew
>
>
> Sounds like you are making a link stack for a voting panel.
>
> Look for 36-42mhz land mobile stuff. That's right, low band.
> 25-30MHz and 30-36mhz gear ends up on 10m, and 42-50MHz
> gear ends up on 6m. Nobody wants the stuff in between,
> and therefore it goes for parts value.
>
> I would imagine that your link frequencies are somewhere in
> the range of 420-440MHz. Locally they are at either 420-421
> or 438-440MHz. Put up a decent antenna and feed it to the
> input of a 430MHz transverter and change the rock in it so
> that the frequencies "line up" so that 439.0mhz in ends up at
> 39.0mhz out. Take the transverter output and feed it to the
> stack of low band receivers. There's your link stack.
>
> Dayton is this week end. You will probably see 36-42mhz
> Maxtracs for $50 or less. The ones with the dead TXs will
> probably go for $20 or less. The Maxtrac is a programmable
> radio and has internal PL and DPL. The COR and PL decode
> can be brought out on separate pins.
>
> Mike WA6ILQ
That's probably the first decent use of mid-split low-band radios I've
seen! Normally they're only good for doorstops.
--
Jim Barbour
WD8CHL
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