At 12/20/2007 18:08, you wrote: >Jim Brown wrote: > > One comment on using the Alinco radios. A buddy ran > > one on EchoLink and had some cooling issues. He wound > > up putting a muffin fan near the radio, and then had a > > hum issue due to coupling to the fan motor. So plan > > your install carefully with respect to cooling, and > > take care not to get into the hum issue with whatever > > fan you use. > >Another comment about Alincos used for any kind of link where CTCSS >switching is used: > >They have extremely slow CTCSS decoders.
This applies to the newer models, but the DR-605's (optional) decoder doesn't have this problem. Bob NO6B

