Neil, In Texas it's 1 MHz. At least it's better than 500 KHz.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 6 meter repeater duplexer (not used) 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 > > Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
