Ok, today we went out on the hill and did much testing. We ended up
running the new repeater on 2 antennas as this seems to work and we
are going to see how it goes for a bit.
Several things were learned while testing things.
1. Our old machine was only putting out about 4 watts before the
duplexers. We thought 10 to 12 watts.
when we hooked up the new machine into the line with duplexers and
all we noticed an odd thing.
2. The new machine took a couple of seconds to come to full power
through the duplexers.....key up needle on meter moved to about 15
watts kind of slowly and sporadiclly then boom suddenly jumped to
full full power. We ended up through much swapping things around
isolating this to one of the duplexer cans on the transmit side.
Without that one can it keyed up instantly.
Has anybody seen this and I assume it means that the can is bad or faulty....
This problem only showed up on the new repeater as the old one didn't
put out enough power to seem to cause this problem. Anyway I really
appreciate this list everyone here has been great.
Brian
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