John, Now if you'll just consider Letting the big dog eat ( turn it up to full power), and mounting a 224E on the side of your tower as high as possible, you'll be talking. Remember height is might, it's also "free" gain. One more thing, get yourself a Bird Watt Meter!! de Lee K4LJP 73
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:35 PM, W9SRV <tgundo2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Right message this time..... > > 214 will work fine. Glad to hear your making progress! > > > Tom > W9SRV > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 4, 2009, at 7:03 PM, "W3ML" <w...@arrl.net <w3ml%40arrl.net>> > wrote: > > I was Wrong. I have RG-214 double shielded coax running throughout. > > John > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com<Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>, > "W3ML" <w...@...> wrote: > > Again let me say thanks for all the help. > > In the 30 years of hamming, this is all new to me and I am learning > something new every day I play with this. And yes, it is really fun, to be > able to learn something new about our hobby. > > I have all RG 213 coax as harness cable for the cans and to the radio for > transmit and from radio through bandpass to the can on receive. > > I have been measuring the swr out of the radio. One of you said that I need > to move the meter to the other side of the duplexer and check it there. I > will do that again. I did check it there before, but have been leaving the > meter in line between the radio and duplexer. > > Right now we have it running at 55 watts (out of radio) and everyone sounds > great, except one and that may be his antenna as there is a little frying > noise on him. > > One ham on the other side of county did say the reading went up from S2 to > S5 so he was happy and a ham in another county about 27 miles away said we > are 20 over at his place. > > This is a great improvement, because when it was ran around 10 to 20 watts > the noise covered everyone up. > > Thanks gain, I really do appreciate the help. I hope everyone has a great > week. > > 73 > John > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com<Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Chuck Kelsey" <wb2edv@> wrote: > > Double shielded -- specifically what type? > > Chuck > WB2EDV > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "W3ML" <w3ml@> > To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 6:52 PM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Radio for repeater use > > All coax is double shielded from radio to the hardline. > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- "Always drink upstream from the herd."
