At 02:44 PM 01/17/10, you wrote: >I just bought an R100 and want to play with it on the Ham band - It >is supposed to come with the programming software but no cable (I >can build one - found the schematic already). This repeater is DPL >- does anyone have a junk R100 PL that a guy might be able to the RX >controller (IC or board) out of fairly cheap? From the manual it >looks like the IC and a couple cap changes are all that would be >needed. I'm not sure what needs to be done to get this to program >out of band, either - has anyone done this that might be willing to >explain the process to me? Didn't see too many posts about these >when I searched. > >Thanks in advance - Dan
This writeup might be helpful as it gives info on patching the RSS and interfacing an external controller. <http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/r100/r100-index.html> You can get the functionality of a PL R100 by taking your DPL R100 and programming it as a carrier squelch unit then add an external tone decoder (such as a TS32) to it. An external controller such as a low-end NHRC, ICS, Scom 5K etc could combine the COR and tone decode signals in whatever mode you want. If you need someone to set yours up let me know. Mike
