Yes... The station is a Community Repeater - not the "conventional" MICOR repeater that most are familiar with. In other words, it uses a different backplane and different card configuration than a "regular" repeater. The primary PL card is called a Four User Control Module and can have up to four Vibrasponder reeds in it (as does mine). The Master Control card does the PL encoding for transmit.
If you have the MICOR Community Repeater manual supplement, please check through it and you'll see what I am referring to. The problem seems to be with the Master Control module not sending the tone out on Pin 2. Mark - N9WYS -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of godofrepeaters Are you sure you have the encode board plugged in with a reed plugged in? --- In [email protected], "n9wys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More information about this project. > > I have the station working - receiving, decoding proper PL tone, repeating, > transmitting audio, etc. The only thing it is NOT doing is encoding tone > for transmit. (A reminder - this is a Community Repeater MICOR chassis, NOT > the standard repeater chassis.) Anyway - from what I can tell, the Master > Control module is NOT sending tone out to the modulator. The problem I have > is this: the manual supplement I have shows a different Master Control > module that what I have. My modules are not IC-based, the ones on the > manual are. Therefore, I believe the schematic and operation for the module > I have is completely different than that in the manual. > > Does anyone have an earlier issue of the Community Repeater manual - > 68P81025E55 (probably revision A, since mine is a "B")? *ALL* I think I > need are the pages pertaining to the Master Control Module - part #TLN5803A. > (Other part numbers may be: TLN8780A or TLN1684A - these are numbers > stamped on the flange of the card - the first number above was printed right > on the circuit board.) The module referenced in my manual is TRN6165A. > > For those with a manual - I am seeing tone at Pin 7 ("Tone PL Out") but not > at Pin 2 ("Tone or Binary PL to Modulator") on the Master Control module. I > tried merely jumpering Pin 7 to Pin 2 - doesn't work. Because the schematic > and board layout is completely different, I have no reference to be able to > chase signal through the circuit. I'm also wondering if a required jumper > is missing or a jumper is improperly installed on my Master Control card. > > Thanks! > Mark - N9WYS > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.1/1607 - Release Date: 8/12/2008 7:19 AM
