Better mention this.. A 6-meter repeater for your first repeater is an ambitious project. You will need to find two sites (maybe a mile or so separation) and link the transmitter to the receiver. Or, you can buy or build a duplexer, not necessarily easy or cheap. At 6-meters the cans are about 5' tall. A design using Heliax is out there. It works, but I found it to be not extremely stable as they de-tuned easily.
You are likely to discover that the transmitter and/or the receiver will not tune without some modifications. Any stage that will not tune past the peak, and down the other side, needs to have the associated capacitor changed out with a smaller value. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Kelsey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Good conversion choice for 1st 6 meter repeater? >A Mastr II with the "33" split - 42-50 MHz. Or and Exec II, same split. > > Chuck > WB2EDV > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:46 AM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Good conversion choice for 1st 6 meter > repeater? > > >> Something GE or Motorola, but what? >> >> I'd like to build a 6 meter repeater. And, >> this'll be my first repeater to build. What would >> be a good choice for conversion? Definitely something >> VHF lowband- 35 to 42 MHz or better, but what? I'm more >> familiar with GE units than Motorola, but that doesn't >> rule out a Micor or something else. Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks and 73! >> >> Mark KE5LIB >>
