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skipp025 wrote:
>
> > 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.
How about an old 250BR?
> > 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 wouldn't say that either ...
> > 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.
Especially if all the insulation on the wiring has dried up
and is coming off.
> > > 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..?
... yet ...
> > > 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.
I fondly remember those days ...
> > > 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...
You need a diagram for it ... yet?
> > > 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
Neil
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