[Repeater-Builder] Re: COS output for Kenwood

2007-01-19 Thread fineshot1
Jeff - If you have a TSU6/KQT8 CTCSS decoder installed you can get an active high from the foil side pin 4 marked as SDO in the service manual(assuming you have one).dan n2aym --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, jkstrsn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a TM-431A which I want to use as a

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Mot. IC cross reference

2007-01-19 Thread wa9zzu
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, sgreact47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the other numbers and letters on these IC's? That mite help narrow it down to an age range. Then we can check our older parts books.--- The info on the top is 61L23 RCA 8715 (which I assume 8715 is the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] COS output for Kenwood

2007-01-19 Thread w5zit
I have had good luck using an opto isolator to interface a radio that I don't have the internal schematic for. The radio usually has a LED indicator for receive, and is easy to find. Place the diode section of a 4N36 isolator in series with the receive indicator LED and the transistor portion

[Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Murphy
Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I sent Bob, WA1MIK a message thanking him for his fine article on recapping the Spectra radios. At work, we have a fleet with several hundred 800 MHz Spectra C5 and C7 mobiles. Over the past year or so, they've been dropping like flies. I've now gone

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread Vincent Caruso
Is there a link to this article? I had a copy of instructions on re capping once but misplaced it when I upgraded my hard drive. Thanks Steve Murphy wrote: Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I sent Bob, WA1MIK a message thanking him for his fine article on recapping the Spectra radios.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread roger.white
I noticed the same thing in a Spectra I purchased used late last year. This particular radio looks to have not be cap modified, but I noticed the missing cap easily. Roger W5RD Another thing worth noting is that in the three 900 MHz Spectras that I've recapped, the 47uF cap on the RF board

[Repeater-Builder] Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread skipp025
Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1) If you add a circuit like the Com Spec RB-1 board to the typical repeater system using a ts-32/ts-54 board... the tx ctcss is not disabled or removed before the RB-1 delayed ptt line drops. So you have the phase inverted ctcss present for at most up

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread Jim B.
I haven't used one of those, but I'd ask, what is it doing differently? If you invert the phase of the tone 180 degrees (or 120 for some older motorolas), it should mute correctly. The only issues I've ever run into is either the transmit delay is too short (ie, TK-x05D series), and the rx

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread Bob M.
Start at www.repeater-builder.com; you may recognize that as the name of this Yahoo! Group; it's no co-incidence. Go to the Motorola section, then the Spectra Mobile area. Check out all the nifty articles near the bottom. One of them addresses the capacitors issue. You may even find useful

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread wa9zzu
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, skipp025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1) If you add a circuit like the Com Spec RB-1 board to the typical repeater system using a ts-32/ts-54 board... the tx ctcss is not disabled or removed before the RB-1

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread Jim B.
wa9zzu wrote: --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, skipp025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1) If you add a circuit like the Com Spec RB-1 board to the typical repeater system using a ts-32/ts-54 board... the tx ctcss is not disabled or removed

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread Jeff DePolo
Skipp, I find your comments interesting in that the purpose that Motorola had in using reverse burst of the PL tone was to quickly damp the mechanical reed in the PL decoder to close the squelch and eliminate the user from hearing the noise burst. But of course you knew that. However, in

[Repeater-Builder] Fw: CM200

2007-01-19 Thread William Fourneau
Día luminoso WILLIAM A. FOURNEAU M. Greetings to all, somebody can say to me to the configuration of the connector rj45 to program the motorola CM200. thanks will. WILLIAM A. FOURNEAU M. attachment: Fondo_de_D__a_luminoso.jpg

[Repeater-Builder] Need Mastr ExecII mods.

2007-01-19 Thread Eric Vincent
Hello group, I need radio modification for GE Mastr ExecII Low Band. The link on the web site Repeater-Builder doesn’t work. Anybody have other link to convert Low Band to 52Mhz. Thanks and good week end. Eric VE2VXT -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

[Repeater-Builder] 110.9 Micor Vibrasponders needed

2007-01-19 Thread Bob M.
These are the small TLN8381A reeds with the larger case that go into SpectraTAC receivers and Micor mobile PL decoders. Let me know via direct mail. Thanks. Bob M. Want to start your own business? Learn how

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Need Mastr ExecII mods.

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Custer
Eric Vincent wrote: Hello group, I need radio modification for GE Mastr ExecII Low Band. The link on the web site Repeater-Builder doesn’t work. Anybody have other link to convert Low Band to 52Mhz. Thanks and good week end. Eric VE2VXT My RB site pointed to an off-site

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread JOHN MACKEY
I played around with using the RB-1 board on my repeater transmitters using motorola and several other receivers in tone squelch. Eventually I found it was better to remove the capacitor which causes the RB-1 to send NO tone for the last 100ms (or what ever the timing is). --- In

[Repeater-Builder] coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Coy Hilton
HI Gang I have had one of my 2 meter repeaters coordinated as a closed repeater for at least two years. Three times last year I was sent a email asking if the repeater was on the air and three times I answered yes each time. I had even had a on going discussion about having multiple

Re: [Repeater-Builder] coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Jay Urish
In congested areas this is going to be a fact of life. All your coordinator wants probably is a quick on air demo. Is the guy local? He should already know the PL tones etc. Coy Hilton wrote: HI Gang I have had one of my 2 meter repeaters coordinated as a closed repeater for at least

[Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Jeff Kincaid
Coordinators are a savvy lot (well, some of them are), and they know that sometimes a fellow will repeatedly claim that his gear is on the air when in fact it is not. So, they want to be able to kerchunk the thing for themselves. Even if it's closed, the PL tone should be in their files and they

Re: [Repeater-Builder] coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread mch
Does your coordinator have the access info to try it for themselves? What are they basing the decoordination on? Not on the air? Joe M. Coy Hilton wrote: HI Gang I have had one of my 2 meter repeaters coordinated as a closed repeater for at least two years. Three times last year I was

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread w5zit
Actually, the electronic CTCSS decoders react about the same as the old reeds. The physics of the matter causes the filters that can discern for instance - 100 Hz from 97 Hz or 103 Hz to be very narrow, and they ring - even when the driving tone is removed. By reversing the tone phase for a

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Schmidt
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one with coordnator issues. Here, My 444.275machine has been on the air for years. The good ol boy coffiee club - the Wisconsin Association of Repeaters - WAR - www.wi-repeaters.org , they send renewal requests on a yearly basis - not e-mails. Everytime I have

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread mch
Did you send your reply back certified? After their claim of not receiving it, I sure would have. But, things DO get lost in the mail. I've seen cases where someone says This is my forth reply in two yeas, yet the complaint was the first letter received from him in over 10 years. (not that much

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Reverse Burst Comments (Com Spec RB-1)

2007-01-19 Thread skipp025
I believe the cap you speak of is to delay the transmitter on/keyed for an additional time, which the mfgr specs at 200mS (milli seconds). Removing or lowering the cap value would reduce the delayed ptt time. The focus of my post is to ask people how their true reverse burst decoders

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Need Mastr ExecII mods.

2007-01-19 Thread Eric Vincent
Hello and thanks to all for reply, I will put that into my binder… I have one unit with range (36-42Mhz.) and somebody tell me put new Xtal and retune only, maybe its true??? I never change any caps. into VHF or UHF and radio operate very well, maybe it’s the same for low band, I never use it

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Schmidt
After the excuses from these people, of course certified mail. Everything now is sent to WAR via certified mail. Since they want to play games, I'm going to make sure there is a paper trail, not just their excuses and stories. Yeah, if it goes to court, I'll probably loose the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread cruising7388
In a message dated 1/19/2007 7:23:19 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You ARE aware that if someone else gets coordination there and the FCC gets involved, you *will lose*, right? You are better off taking the issue to their meetings to get it resolved. If you feel

[Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Coy Hilton
I'll respond to all replys through 68209. If they wanted a aural or off the air check, and if they were so savvy why didn't they ask for just that? All the requests for info about the repeater being on the air was by email and I responded to each and every one and stating that the repeater is

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread Glenn Little WB4UIV
Per §97.205 Repeater station. (c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference to another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one station is recommended by a frequency coordinator

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread David Struebel
Yes, No obligation to co-ordinate your repeater. However, and this I have seen this personally,(fortunately in my favor) in an interference issue or complaint the first question the FCC asks is this repeater coordinated? Even if you have been on that pair for centuries and the coordinators

[Repeater-Builder] decibel DB-4032

2007-01-19 Thread Luc Pernot
Hi,anybody has the calculated length of coaxes needed for going from the T jonctions to the helical Resonnator of a DB-4032 6 resonnator Unit...for high and low notch displacement for 1 mhz separation ... Original has 500khz ... Thank's Luc VE3JGL.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread Charles Miller
Steve, I would recommend that you NOT use the Tantalum caps. They have a very nasty habit of shorting when they overheat in the summer. When this happens depending on where the cap is, you may cause a fire in the radio. Not a pretty when this happens. Charles Miller - Original Message

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread mch
You know, that's a common complaint I hear. The repeater council meeting is not always in my back yard. Many organizations are required by their bylaws to make it convenient for the membership. When you are dealing with a state, that means it has to be moved around and may well be several hundred

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread W5KGT
I agree with Jeff. I am the Coordinator for Louisiana. I have all the information in my data base for each repeater. So I should be able to check it. I also have Hams in different parts of the state that check on repeaters for me. We give a year before de-coordination. In that time someone

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Mot. IC cross reference

2007-01-19 Thread Ian Divertie
I've had good luck finding old ic's, not just Moto but all different types through [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott is very helpful, so is his boss. Anyway, I've also used [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Good Luck Ian Original Message Follows From: wa9zzu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coordination question for the seasoned owners

2007-01-19 Thread mch
Says the FCC via 97.205(c): (c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference to another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one station is

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Mot. IC cross reference

2007-01-19 Thread sgreact47
Good, that info should narrow the search down a bit. The info on the top is 61L23 RCA 8715 (which I assume 8715 is the date code) and on the bottom are 4ZLRC on one line and below that is P6502 in the standard 8 pin DIP. wa9zzu