On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Mike Mullarkey wrote: > Nate, > > Take the TAIT radio sell themon EBAY and get some Motorola SM50 or > 120 radios. You will be much happier. > > Mike K7PFJ Mike, you replied to the wrong person. I was replying to VE6IVN who's working with the Tait radios. My experience with them is in the past. > ivanjewell wrote: > > Hello all we have 4 tait 2000 radios to link our repeater > > to another one I was wondering if anyone has a wiring > > diagram to do this? > > We are running a arcom 210 controller > > thanks in advance and 73's VE6IVN Ivan > But for discussion's sake, I'm wondering what you found wrong with them, Mike. I didn't build it, but one of our club's early 440 repeaters (a LONG time ago) was a pair of Tait mobiles, and it ran fine for something like 3-5 years.
The radios are still in their custom rack panel downstairs in the club's "storage" area... my basement, and I've used them with a duplexer for a quick-and-dirty full-duplex UHF link two years ago, and then shelved them again. They're tanks... and just keep running. Someone "before my time" tapped them for PTT/COS and put a little board they made in them to amplify and de-emphasize discriminator audio they tapped and installed into those DB-9 "holes" I mentioned to Ivan. The only "bummer" is that they tapped a real COS and it's not muted/gated audio, but that's "fixable" if I ever need them again for another mini-project. I had a couple of the LTR 220 MHz mobiles without the accessory DB-9 connector and accidentally blew a chip hunting for a CTCSS-follow line in one of them... oops. Probe slipped. I had figured out how to program them for ham 220, using the LTR "channel ID's", well at least the receiver of one and the transmitter of another, and was going to hook them up to a 220 antenna for a poor- man's 220 repeater (not for the club, just a backyard project). Anyway, never had any problems with the four of them that are "floating" around here other than blowing that one up. And that was my own fault. Wondering what you ran into. Mobiles are never good repeaters, but... these mobiles work just fine... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
