If you are able to install a UHF moble radio at your VHF site, why not link the other way? You might be able to get away with a small yagi at the base of your tower, or on the equipment shelter itself.
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "William Delbert Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy, New to this group today. > I am the control operator for two of our ham club repeaters. > A 2m Motorola and 70cm Motorola. > We had them next to each other hard wired linked with antennas on a > very tall commercial > tower in Austin. The UHF antenna was turned to dust by a > lightning strike. The machine survived however the cost of a > tower climb exceeds our cub funds so I have moved and > coordinated the UHF machine 20 miles west to my home QTH > tower. This works out nice as I am on a big hill and cover > the local state park very well. I would like to link the two > together by installing a 2m mobile rig on the UHF controller > "linking radio" I/O and link it to the VHF machine. > This would take the audio out of the UHF machine and > transmit it on the mobile rig to the input of the VHF > machine 20 miles east via a small 2m yagi. The RX audio on > the 2m mobile rig would then be transmitted out on the UHF > machine. This is all easy to do with the controller I have. > The question is this legal now on the ham bands? I think up > until early this year you could only link with UHF until the > FCC changed the law enabling the Kenwood "sky command" to be > legal on 2m thus allowing what I am planning. What are the > group members thoughts on this? > Thanks, > Bill N5ZTW Central Texas. >
