I did a DR-600 remote base by letting the DR-600 listen to the repeater output on 440 and controlling the freq on 2 meters using the standard TT control for the DR-600. Audio was interfaced to the mic and speaker, and the 440 port on the DR-600 was connected to a dummy load. The 440 port was only used to select the frequency, not as a cross band repeat. I only used the memory select codes to control the DR-600 as there was no way to select the CTCSS frequency from the remote. You could change to VFO control if you did not need a CTCSS tone. The control codes were shown in the radio manual.
It worked very well, and there is no way to get out of sync since the control code sent to the radio selects a particular preset memory channel. 73 - Jim W5ZIT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 3:11 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Has anyone interfaced a Yaesu FT-8500 to be a remote base on a repeater? Alinco almost got it right, at least with the DR599 and possibly the DR600. The radio can be remote controlled if it has the DTMF decoder option board via RF. I think you can also remote control it by applying the remote control DTMF tones to the mic input without keying the radio (I haven’t tried but I think that’s the way the DTMF mic sends commands to the radio). The only snafu is that they didn’t include a provision for setting offset and the radio doesn’t do it automatically. Now that I’ve found the book for mine, it may be time to do a little more investigating. Jamey Wright Systems Analyst Morgan County EMCD 911 Decatur, AL 256-552-0911 ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.
