At 2/19/2006 00:25, you wrote:
>Andrew G. wrote:
> > Chris, They make EXCELLENT repeaters for ham use. We have a pair of
> > Alinco DR-235 220mhz radios on our repeater. I interfaced them to an ACC
> > RC-85 controller. The TX drives a TE Systems 100watt amplifier into a
> > 6cavity sinclair duplexer. The RX has an ARR pre-amp with great results
> > (little to no desense @ 100watts). Highly recommended.
> >
> > Andy KC2GOW
>
>You didn't find the CTCSS decoder the slowest decoder you've ever seen?
> Big squelch crash at every unkey, or did you use an audio delay board
>to cover it up?
>
>That's the largest complaint of people using them for link radios in
>IRLP -- the CTCSS decoder takes 400-500 ms to close after a valid CTCSS
>signal disappears.
Mine took 1 full second to close on a quiet signal, & up to 10 seconds to
close on noise if the noise squelch was turned down to 0.
>Someone published how to add a ComSpec TS-64 to them.
Only way to go with these radios. I'm surprised the IRLP folks haven't
published an advisory on them.
Bob NO6B
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