> > .... repeater owners in the New York City metro found that they
> > had fewer issues with desense and overload if they flipped to a
> > negative offset (i.e. get the ham repeater Rx further away from
> > the 450-455 commercial repeater Tx's).
>
> ... which is not really a valid reason. Probably a combination of
> the available receivers of the day and lack of resources (cavities
> and duplexers)... not to mention a bit of being lazy ("taking the
> easy way out")
> s.
Or they were converting UHF Micor mobiles into repeaters and didn't realize
high-side injection was an option (inside joke for you Micor mobile fans out
there).
