[Repeater-Builder] Re: Hamtronics, Inc.--Looking for Recommendation or info
By the nature of the beast, if one buys and builds a Hamtronics repeater from kits, you will learn quite a bit, while trading time and money vs buying a premade unit. There is something to be said for the mechanical build of the converted commercial radio, but a well done kit project can also be well made. It would be hard to compare the electronic operation of the two without using specific radio/kit models. I have love hate relationships with both kits and commercial conversions. Hamtronics stuff is fun to make and works pretty well, I've got some late 70's early 80's Hamtronics gear still in regular operation. Good old diode matrix ID Board, the COR-2, autopatch-1 on six meter strips chugging along since late 1980 without fail. Back then, you mostly bought and built kits, now you can buy things pre-made if you don't have the time. cheers, skipp ps: Yep, that was/is me in the old Hamtronics Paper and now Online Catalog with the long time positive user feedback. Darn 24 plus year old kits won't die... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Hamtronics, Inc.--Looking for Recommendation or info
While I agree to a certain extent,having one on the 220 band for 22 years, they didnt play well in the 2 meter band with all the rf flying around and were replaced with MastrII's which have been flawless for a quarter century and with superior performance and better audio,squelch,tone decoding,and on and on... I wouldnt even consider any Hamtronics stuff for a commercial site-ever! You can learn a lot by doing your own conversion,probably more than by building their kit. And the docs are superior too! 73,Lee,N3APP skipp025 wrote: By the nature of the beast, if one buys and builds a Hamtronics repeater from kits, you will learn quite a bit, while trading time and money vs buying a premade unit. There is something to be said for the mechanical build of the converted commercial radio, but a well done kit project can also be well made. It would be hard to compare the electronic operation of the two without using specific radio/kit models. I have love hate relationships with both kits and commercial conversions. Hamtronics stuff is fun to make and works pretty well, I've got some late 70's early 80's Hamtronics gear still in regular operation. Good old diode matrix ID Board, the COR-2, autopatch-1 on six meter strips chugging along since late 1980 without fail. Back then, you mostly bought and built kits, now you can buy things pre-made if you don't have the time. cheers, skipp ps: Yep, that was/is me in the old Hamtronics Paper and now Online Catalog with the long time positive user feedback. Darn 24 plus year old kits won't die... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Hamtronics, Inc.--Looking for Recommendation or info
Like my Heath-kit VTVM. Neil - WA6KLA skipp025 wrote: By the nature of the beast, if one buys and builds a Hamtronics repeater from kits, you will learn quite a bit, while trading time and money vs buying a premade unit. There is something to be said for the mechanical build of the converted commercial radio, but a well done kit project can also be well made. It would be hard to compare the electronic operation of the two without using specific radio/kit models. I have love hate relationships with both kits and commercial conversions. Hamtronics stuff is fun to make and works pretty well, I've got some late 70's early 80's Hamtronics gear still in regular operation. Good old diode matrix ID Board, the COR-2, autopatch-1 on six meter strips chugging along since late 1980 without fail. Back then, you mostly bought and built kits, now you can buy things pre-made if you don't have the time. cheers, skipp ps: Yep, that was/is me in the old Hamtronics Paper and now Online Catalog with the long time positive user feedback. Darn 24 plus year old kits won't die... Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Hamtronics, Inc.--Looking for Recommendation or info
Hello All, I do not know that much about the Hamtronics repeaters I did but 3 of them a year or so a go for 900 MHz Ham use but replaced them very quickly with Kenwood 900 MHz repeater. But the short time they where up they worked very well. The only problem I had was we did replace the PL or sub tone Hamtronics encode decode units with CommSpec units. Now we just keep them around as back up repeaters in case the Kenwoods should go down. 73 Russ, W3CH. - Original Message - From: Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Hamtronics, Inc.--Looking for Recommendation or info While I agree to a certain extent,having one on the 220 band for 22 years, they didnt play well in the 2 meter band with all the rf flying around and were replaced with MastrII's which have been flawless for a quarter century and with superior performance and better audio,squelch,tone decoding,and on and on... I wouldnt even consider any Hamtronics stuff for a commercial site-ever! You can learn a lot by doing your own conversion,probably more than by building their kit. And the docs are superior too! 73,Lee,N3APP skipp025 wrote: By the nature of the beast, if one buys and builds a Hamtronics repeater from kits, you will learn quite a bit, while trading time and money vs buying a premade unit. There is something to be said for the mechanical build of the converted commercial radio, but a well done kit project can also be well made. It would be hard to compare the electronic operation of the two without using specific radio/kit models. I have love hate relationships with both kits and commercial conversions. Hamtronics stuff is fun to make and works pretty well, I've got some late 70's early 80's Hamtronics gear still in regular operation. Good old diode matrix ID Board, the COR-2, autopatch-1 on six meter strips chugging along since late 1980 without fail. Back then, you mostly bought and built kits, now you can buy things pre-made if you don't have the time. cheers, skipp ps: Yep, that was/is me in the old Hamtronics Paper and now Online Catalog with the long time positive user feedback. Darn 24 plus year old kits won't die... Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
