Rber's, I posted a note very early this week about my looking for a
someplace to get a 220 duplexer tuned in the TAMPA area. Having not much
luck I contacted a local MOTOROLA shop and paid $95 for the service. The
receipt returned with the cans indicates that the specifications published
by WACOM are very close. Having tuned these merely to incoming signals
before, peaking them while the repeater is still in a testing mode, seemed
to return decent results but the tune-up was thought to be a better idea.
Not so.. Today's tune-up hardly was worth the wait or the price based on
the results. While a 5 watt HT 10 miles away could work the repeater, now
25 watts from a roof top antenna is now just about full quieting. Fifteen
watts does not make the repeater through the same roof top ground plane.
Does logic dictate that we go back to seat of the pants tuning and cast fate
to the wind? - Mike
