Neil, Good question, you are not really modifying the transmitter or receiver at all, just removing the diode antenna switch, making the receiver hot all the time and separating the RX and TX with coaxes. I have a couple of these little repeaters on Ham frequencies, they work great. I used one a couple years ago at the Dayton Hamvention on 444.850, un-coordinated of course. That one is the 5 watt version, it would not quite make it throughout the building so I am thinking about modifying one of the 25 watt radios to get a little more penetration.
Nice talking to you the other night. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA Question: Does the Johnson 6060 meet FCC Type Acceptance for GMRS? Neil - WA6KLA Mike Morris wrote: > > At 06:57 AM 11/28/05, you wrote: > > > Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a > > GMRS repeater for he and his wife. He has aprox. 50 acres of > > woods that he likes to walk around in and is in his 70's. His > > wife is concerned about him needing to contact her, so I got > > them a pair of Midland GMRS radios. They don't quite do the > > job because of a little terrain blockage due to a hill. I was > > thinking of recrystalling a Repco repeater that I have and set > > up a GMRS repeater, but don't know the details about how > > feasible this would be. Any suggestions from the group? > > > >Joe > > Reminds me of a small repeater I saw a dozen years ago. A regular > outhouse building, but with no throne, off in the woods, but on the > crest of a small hill. Inside was a pair of car batteries, a > Johnson UHF PPL 6060 radio and a mobile duplexer. On the roof was > a 2 foot by 4 foot solar panel facing south. Next to the building > and strapped to it was a 30 foot pushup mast holding a short > stationmaster. > > Taped to the Johnson was a xerox of a GMRS license. > > There is a GMRS conversion of a 6060 at repeater-builder. > > Mike WA6ILQ > 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/
