Hi All, I'm very pleased to announce that after nine months of beta testing, the new S-COM 7330 Triple Repeater Controller is in production and available for sale! A total of 66 units were tested by 54 repeater owners, and the results fed back to the design team of five engineers (four of whom are hams). The resulting five code upgrades added features and fixed minor bugs, and were found to be easy to install in flash memory via the high-speed (57.6K) serial port. (My personal and quite biased view is that this thing is heads and shoulders above any of our previous controllers, extremely competitive, and only in its infancy due to the large amount of available memory -- and matching wishlist of future improvements... :-) We're calling it a "triple repeater controller" to differentiate it from three port controllers that cannot operate three repeaters totally independently. That is, the 7330 will run three repeaters, links, or other radio configurations connected in any fashion, as you'd expect. But it can also send different messages (CW, digitally recorded audio, beeps, or paging tones) to all three transmitters at the same time, have different access modes for each RX-TX path, and much more. In fact, each repeater will think it has its own controller, since there's three of everything -- three DTMF decoders, three dual-tone CW/beep/paging generators, three digital audio players, three CTCSS encoders with reverse burst, three digital audio delays, and plenty of additional features. We've placed the V1.0 user manual, schematics, a white paper on the design philosophy, and other materials on the website, _www.scomcontrollers.com_ (http://www.scomcontrollers.com) , for all to peruse. Oh, yeah, the price: $459 plus $15 for shipping, and that INCLUDES the 1U rackmount cabinet with a 28-LED display. As always, thanks for the BW, Kevin. 73, Bob Bob Schmid, WA9FBO, EE/Member S-COM, LLC PO Box 1546 LaPorte CO 80535-1546 970-416-6505 voice 970-419-3222 fax www.scomcontrollers.com
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