Hi Group, The shop I work at was recently given a couple of decommissioned LTR repeaters after the customer moved to a different radio format.
The stations are made by RF Technology Pty Ltd. out of Australia, and consist of a 19" card cage containing a T500B Transmitter, R500B Receiver and PA500B Power Amplifier, as well as a power supply. On the back is an alarm & trunking interface card that was connected to an LTR controller. In my readings, I've discovered these are 450-490MHz stations that will supposedly produce 50W 100% of the time. Anyone have any experience with this gear? I'm wondering if I should buy one or two from the company and turn them in to 440MHz machines. Does anyone know if they will tune down to the UHF amateur band? Do they have internal PL encode/decode, or must I use an outboard encoder/decoder? Whats the performance like? Duty cycle? Any hints or kinks on these units? It appears to me that DX Radio relabels these units and resells them, or RF Technology is relabeling DX Radio gear, as the hardware is physically identical. I base this on what I've seen on the web, I have no experience with either product. Thanks for the heads up. -Chris/KF6AJM
