Another nice item about living the Pacific Northwest ... the
six meter band plan in western Washington and all of Oregon has
a 1.7 MHz in/output split.
Neil - WA6KLA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> At 11/26/2005 10:19, you wrote:
> >One of my first (Hamtronics) 6 meter repeaters
> >worked fine... same site no duplexer. I had
> >65 ft antenna separation, a ground plane (converted
> >CB 5/8 wave) for rx at the top and a low gain
> >1/2 dipole (converted scanner antenna) at the
> >bottom.
> >
> >The elevated site worked an easy 30 mile radius with
> >a whopping 2.3 watts output. Talk about a smoker...
> >
> >Who says you need a duplexer..?
> >
> >Just drop the power down...
> >
> >cheers,
> >skipp
>
> What I/O split does it run? Here in SoCal we use 500 kHz. FWIW, I notice
> more repeaters on 6 meters with self-desense than any other band, which is
> even worse when you consider that the noise floor on 6 is higher than the
> higher bands.
>
> Bob
>
> P.S.: 2.5 watts TX power would never cut it here - too much ch. 2 VSB
>
>
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