> Perhaps I did not make myself clear. The repeater
> i am building will be nearly hi-fidelity audio and
> such is why i intend to use tube equipment.
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz.....! oop's I fell asleep. A tube
repeater gear means you're obviously not paying the
utility bill. An old GE EP-38 has got to run about
$40 a month... figure a GE Progress Line or Motorola
Research Line has got to be min $50 a month.
> i worked in commercial 2 way radio in the 1960's and
> worked in broadcasting in the 1970's. tube equipment
> in highly reliable if properly maintained, which i
> can do. (i do admit that there are not to many of us
> left that know how to properly maintain electronic
> equipment.
I wouldn't say that...
> i am setting this up to volunteer a system for
> an group.
The "an group" will spend all its time working on
the radio gear.
> > Your training and preference are great for hi-fi
> > audio equipment, but repeaters are optimized for
> > weak signals with voice only,
You haven't been looking at the ctcss, dcs or ltr
information have you..?
> > and as such, fidelity is no one of their strong
> > points. 50 - 3500 Hz is about the limit, and the
> > user radios will make it sound even worse.
They don't sound so bad to me... although my hearing
suffers a bit from the 70's music level.
> > Today's solid-state communications equipment far
> > surpasses the older tube stuff as far as reliability,
> > durability, and ease of getting replacement parts when
> > needed. A lot of today's radios don't even need to be
> > tuned - they're wide-band but still quite selective
> > and more sensitive than the tube radios ever could
> > hope to be.
You're making my Motorola Sensicon Receiver mad...
> > There's a ton of good repeater-building information
> > over on www.repeater-builder.com and you would spend
> > less time reading it than you would trying to make
> > those old U43GG? radios perform the continuous duty
> > cycle required of repeaters.
> >
> > Bob M.
Simple... self abuse. But he can have the old RCA Carfone
Base in my storage unit if he wanted to truck it home...
Only takes a forklift to move it...
skipp
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/
