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nj902 wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "us_communications1"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "...WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR IS DIRECTION OF HOW OTHERS DID THIS.
> the radios are 30+ years old so i can't believe that i am the
> first to think of using the higer quality tube equipment. ..."
>
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> Higher quality? Just because they use tubes? TAS lifetime
> subscriber?
>
> But - to answer your question - you could build a tube type
> repeater - it's your time to spend as you wish.
>
> Your best bet would be to search hamfests or go to the Dayton
> Hamvention and try to find a copy of the "Radio Amateur's F-M
> Repeater Handbook" by Ken W. Sessions, c.1969, and any other
> period literature you can find.
Careful, my picture is in the Ken Sessions Book - Tab Books #1212.
> Once upon a time hams did make repeaters out of the tube type
> stuff when it was plentiful on the surplus market in the 1960's.
>
> You might also check with your local two-way radio shops - it's
> just possible they may have an old tube type repeater sitting
> around that hasn't made it to the landfill yet. If not that -
> they might have some old manuals for tube type repeaters.
I have one here ... is a Motrac high-band repeater. You can have
it - just come by and get it.
Neil
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