Well the local ham fest rolled into town last weekend and I was able to get some cans. One of which is a DB products bp can model sp6610C. A friend tuned it up for me and I put it between the MASTRII on the receive side and the receive side of the db4048 duplexer that I have which wasn't providing proper isolation. It's like I have a new repeater. I have not been able to do any extended testing yet but I can run lower power on my mobile around town then before and people on HTs that couldn't hit the machine from in their house can now do so full quieting.
Thanks to you guys on the list for leading me in the right direction. On another note I mentioned I had picked up a Sinclair 1-150 series can that has to be about 10" diameter. Well when I was at the junk shop picking up some interconnect cable I found another one like it that was from the same site. Along with that I found 3 cans that look like the Sinclairs and are the same size but they have 2 N connectors on them instead of one. Then I found a set of 4 UHF cans that are the same diameter as the 2m cans. All of these other cans don't have any markings on them that I can see. However the price was right so I grabbed them all. I have another friend that has nice gear at work and he is going to take them in to see what they will do. More on that to come. I may need some help figuring out how to modify them if they won't play in the ham bands. Vern KI4ONW
