At 3/25/2008 03:53, you wrote: >About any Ham vintage rig made in last 15 years is not good for a >repeater. On the receiver the clue is it has broad band receive.
Well, then a lot of recent vintage repeaters like the Vertex are not good for repeaters, even though that's what they're made for. > Some receivers have some tuning geared to the rcv freq, but very little. > It is radically different than a rcvr with helical front end filter that > has to be tuned if moving more couple MHz. Narrow front ends are always good to have in RF-congested areas, but not all repeaters are deployed in such areas. In a rural setting, sensitivity is more important than selectivity. Bob NO6B
