At 10:27 AM 8/27/2007, you wrote: >dded later with a bolt on chassis using the famous long copper tone >reeds. I would guess that era to be sometime between 1965 and 1975 >when 2m repeaters first caught on (became popular) with the general >ham public.
<----I remember many folks using banana reed decoder/encoders as far back as the early 70's (long before the IC-02AT by the way). I remember ComSpec's offerings that used everything from banana reeds to the more "normal" 'sponders and 'senders and even the infamous round beige "tone element" decks in the 70's as well. All of these were used in the ham side of things. Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President and CTO - Arcom Communications Makers of repeater controllers and accessories. http://www.arcomcontrollers.com/ Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and we offer complete repeater packages! AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 http://www.irlp.net "We don't just make 'em. We use 'em!"
