Eric -
Thanks for the education on duplexers. I had planned to stow the
repeater in a Pelican case but some of our New York roads are a
little rough especially if we're looking for a high point in the
vicinity of an incident. Your comments on preparedness are well-
presented. If we want to do a job right, we need to plan and train
and practice
Well, you've gotten me all fired up again on the simplex repeater
idea. Hearing everything twice isn't a bad idea. In the telephone
business, we solved a lot of operator problems by service observing
that consisted of recording a sample of each operator's calls and
then calling them in and asking them if they'd like to hear what they
sounded like before we erased the tape. We didn't need to say a word
and the look on each operator's face as they said "Oh, no!" or "Is
that what I sound like?' or "Did I say that?" showed it was the best
training they could ever get.
Paul W2ARK
On May 8, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Eric Lemmon wrote:
> Paul,
>
> A simplex repeater on an existing repeater pair is an excellent
> idea. I
> already have one in service, being tested on a coordinated pair
> assigned to
> me. It is a Motorola SM50 VHF radio connected to a Zetron 19B
> "Simplexor"
> simplex repeater controller. It listens on the repeater input
> frequency and
> plays back on the repeater output frequency. A Comm-Spec ID-8
> performs the
> identification functions while the repeater is in use. It gets
> used a lot
> by Hams who want to hear how their radio sounds. I will be the
> first to
> admit that a simplex repeater (isn't that an oxymoron?) gets to be
> tiresome
> to use real fast, and some users get annoyed by hearing everything
> twice.
> But, hey, in an emergency it works.
>
>
> 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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