That souds like a plan Yeah 220 stuff is getting very very hard to find for sure On Sep 26, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Doug Bade wrote:
> There was some notes I read somewhere that the channel steps on the > 220 version was limited and in this country we could not access ALL > freq's on 15/20 khz band plans.. just some... I think I read it was > 12k5or 10k0 or something like this, and channel stepped which did > not match all of our bandplans...I would want to check into it before > finding out the hard way.. > > Doug > KD8B > > > At 02:47 PM 9/26/2007, you wrote: > > >> On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Jed Barton wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know if any of the tait mobiles or portables will work >>> in the >>> amateur 220 band, or have any specs for them? >>> I know they have a bunch of repeaters. >>> Any info would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jed >> >> They do have them, and according to a local Tait dealer, they will >> program into the ham bands, but I have no direct experience with >> them. >> >> I have programmed Tait 220 LTR rigs into the ham bands before... it >> was a trial-and-error thing, since the LTR rigs are channelized. I >> was dorking around with making one a transmitter and one a receiver >> for a backyard repeater. The project never got finished. But I was >> able to trick them into having one rig transmitting on 224.34 and the >> receiver on the receive portion of that pair. >> >> He was going to order a couple of mobiles into his "collection" and >> try them out. I should follow up with him and see what he thinks of >> them. >> >> I would guess from my experience with the LTR rigs, as long as their >> newer programming software doesn't lock the rigs to commercial >> frequencies (unlikely), they'd probably work just fine in Amateur >> service. >> >> Looking at their website, the TM8115 is a 99 channel conventional >> rig, and they have a version banded "D1" that is 216-266 MHz. >> >> Not sure how you go about finding a dealer in any particular area, or >> whether the dealer could sell the D1 banded radios in the U.S. Can't >> see why not, though... >> >> <http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/1,178,0,44,html>http:// >> www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/1,178,0,44,html >> for docs on >> all the models. >> <http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/3,178,241/ >> sp8115_final.pdf>http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/3,178,241/ >> sp8115_final.pdf >> - >> see page two/specifications for bands, etc. >> >> -- >> Nate Duehr, WY0X >> <mailto:nate%40natetech.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
