I applaud the desire to build a "special event" 2-meter "portable" repeater. I honestly think that most well-intentioned groups don't understand the technical difficulty to accomplish this task without spending a lot of money.
However, it begs the question -- isn't there an existing, nearby 2-meter repeater that could be used? Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question on portable repeaters > At 10/7/2009 16:15, you wrote: >>Morning, >>We are looking at building a portable repeater for special even use. This >>will be mobile mounted and 2M. My questions is this: If we are using two >>radios (one for TX one for RX) then what does the antenna separation have >>to >>be for all of this to work? > > Use a wide (2.5 MHz or greater) split & a mobile duplexer. Then the > antenna separation becomes 0. > > Bob NO6B > >
