Hi Ken, You're goint to get a lot of opinions regarding the quality of various receivers and a mention by a lot of "sold customers" to seriously consider using a converted commercial radio... the popular conversion being something like a GE or Motorola Radio.
I'm not sure if I "get" the reason why you worry about using a 3rd or 5th overtone crystal in your receiver. Are you experiencing some issue with the injection scheme or an image from the adjacent TV Channel allocation? We've just had an Icom IC-RP2210 repeater receiver die and parts are no longer available. I've ordered a replacement R302-6 receiver from Hamtronics to drop into the box. I've heard a few negative reports about the Hamtronics Synth Equipment in the last few months but I'm willing to try one for myself. Since the repeater transmitter is still synth I wanted to allow the receiver to be reprogrammed when and where desired. I'm well willing to trust trying a Hamtronics Receiver because I've never really had a "bad unit" from them. Not only have I built and used a lot of Hamtronics gear.. but I've been using Jerry's vhf projects since the 1970's. My only beef would be to tell Jerry to get off the $%*(@ speaker phone when I call him. I bought a Hi Pro 220 repeater transmitter and receiver about two years back and it just keeps on playing rock solid. My only issue might be the whacky way Maggiore (and a lot other brands) treat (or doesn't treat) the receiver repeat audio. Seems like Spectrum has one of the better repeater receiver audio interface circuits. So read what other have to report... ask a lot more questions and get out your check book. cheers, skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com > "Ken Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our group is in need of replacing the receiver on our 220 box and I > wanted to solicit some opinions from the group. > > Our current receiver is a Spectrum using 3rd overtone crystals. We > are looking at the following: > > 1. Spectrum receiver using 5th overtone crystals. > > 2. Hamtronics R302 Synthesized receiver. > http://www.hamtronics.com/r302.htm > > 3. Hamtronics R100 crystal receiver. > http://www.hamtronics.com/r100.htm > > 4. Hi-Pro R4V > http://www.hiprorepeaters.com/Receivers.htm > > What are you using and are you happy with it? Would you buy any > particular one again? Why or why not. > > Thanks a bunch! > > Ken KE6N >
