I don't have a suitcase large enough to carry a repeater with duplexers suitable fot a 600KHz split.
I am sure that something could be assembled with low enough output to handle the mobile duplexers that are so abundant for VHF; thre ones designed for a 5 MHz split. However, I can't see the beauty of a portable repeater that is 100% duty cycle at 2 watts output. Even if you were able to get the power output to a level as high as 10 to 20 watts, that portable tower structure is what I would like to hear about. I would like to see our community reach that level of preparedness; or concern. I will try to bring it up as an item to be budgeted for in the next LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) meeting I attend. I can't quite figure out how to explain to them that they need this item to correct a situation where their repeater was blown off the face of the earth, but the antenna and tower connected to it were un-harmed. For the meantime, a few of us have looked at a number of sites within the city and county with the resources necessary to put up a linked system; on demand. What we lack in pre-assembled solutions for unpredictable situatuions, we make up for in redundancy and ability to cobble something together after the fact. BTW, these are mere fellow Hams, who have the gear in their shack to do the dirty deed. Not everyone in the community is an accomplished repeater jockey. I do have to agree, in a perfect world, there would be a pre-assembled solution for every situation. However, I will always consider the major part of response to be the ability to use the resources at hand; in concert with what you were able to bring with you. My idea of proactive preparedness to disaster is for disaster not to occur. Disaster, by it's very nature, is not a predicitable circumstance. And FWIW, I would probably do better in disaster response with a few guys able to cobble together a working setup from what is available; in a dynamic situtation, rather than a team of specialists whose off-the-shelf dependency was blown into the next county. The Hams that put up a wireless network to have connectivity in the early stages of Katrina response are my kind of guys. They didn't come imn with infrastructire and nothing to connect it to. They restored connectivity from the ground up. And, they only came to provide Amateur Emergency Communcations. A dozen suitcase repeaters couldn't link the agencies together that needed computer network communications. Those were my kind of guys; simply not prepared........ YMMV David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mch Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Alinco Ham Repeater?????? Then there is the proactive approach rather than the reactive approach which you describe. In the proactive approach, you will have a repeater set up and ready to go - a GOOD repeater that can handle emergency duty cycle which typically is much closer to 100%. This repeater will be stored in a suitcase or something and be ready to go within minutes. The LAST thing I want to rely on in an emergency is a 'thrown together' repeater that may fail at any time. Disaster preparedness is NOT the ability to make something after you need it. Joe M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Equally, there are no scheduled disasters, diasaters don't have a > specified length, and disasters aren't catogorized as caused by > American Acts if God, or Jap Acts of God. The ability to use 2 > transcivers to make an quick repeater using the data jack is a useful > tool. 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/
