The Marlins wrote: > Welcome to repeater builder Bill ! not too long ago I ask a simple > question about a mobile Motorola amp which we had been using trouble > free for 15 years and my reply mails were never about the amp but > admonishing me on using it as a repeater amp as it was designed to be > a mobile amp only.... never did get any help on the problem but the > radio police sure had their say, oh, we fixed the amp and put it > back in repeater service, probably for another ten years or so. need > any help on ht600 / mt1000 / ht1000 write off the list. We have a > boatload of them, oh yes still in part 90 service since last i > looked it was 2009 not 2013.... Richard
Well, I don't remember the thread, but if you are using a mobile amp in repeater use, then folks were right to call you on it. You should consider yourself lucky you got what you got out of it. And since there is no reason to turn down the deviation of an HT600 to +/-2.5 KHz, since they won't do part 90 narrowband, and there's no narrowband on the ham bands (except 900), there's no point explaining it. And you better start dealing with your part 90 gear, unless you're sure you can replace them all and get them in to users hands in a matter if days or weeks...most people in part 90 will have trouble getting it done in years.
