Anything wrong with a simplex repeater for emergency use at about 10 to 25
watts no duplexer needed just set up ant mobile radio with controller and on
the air takes some getting use to but would do in emergency . Most hams
radios can go out of band so could set up on freq needed .( with Permission
Of owner of freq that is used ) .
On 2/21/06 9:10 PM, "Bob Dengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2/21/2006 12:41 PM, you wrote:
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>> I don't have a suitcase large enough to carry a repeater with duplexers
>> suitable fot a 600KHz split.
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>> 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.
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> I have a 2 meter portable repeater using a VHF mobile duplexer at 2.655 MHz
> split. Power output is about 22 watts. Single antenna, fits in a
> backpack, no desense. Radio is a G.E. MVP; nothing with a broadband RX
> will work as the duplexing depends in part on the narrow selectivity of the
> G.E.'s helical resonators.
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>> 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.
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> Mine is usually deployed on top of a building, so we just lash a 5 or 10
> foot piece of galvanized EMT conduit to whatever won't generate IMD with
> whatever antenna suits the need (3 element Yagi for directional coverage,
> Comet/Diamond base omni for omni coverage). Proximity of the antenna to
> the repeater hasn't been a problem.
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> Bob NO6B
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