Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: DON'T BUY IT AND DON'T USE IT !!!------READ IT

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Robinson
I am sick and tired of seeing this shit! I came to this site to be informed about repeater building not religious beliefs. If I want to hear Bible thumpers I will go to my church, until then please remove this from this site. This is not a religious sounding board, Please take your crap somewhere

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: DON'T BUY IT *HIJACKED* Back on Subject

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Robinson
John at LaRue Communications, http://www.w5yi.org/page.php?id=152 Yes! Call signs are assigned by regions of the country, such as mine KF6NFW, the represents California, Alaska and Hawaii. The more specific part of the call such as prefix, or in my call KF is from California, KH is hawaii, and

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fw: DON'T BUY IT *HIJACKED* Back on Subject

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Robinson
By the way John, I hope you do get licensed, California doesn't have nearly enough hams!, I came from Sacramento but got my call when living in Angles Camp. There are a lot of friendly hams down your way as well! On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Chris Robinson kf6...@gmail.com wrote: John

Re: [Repeater-Builder] PC for controller

2010-01-16 Thread Chris Robinson
I have used echstation for a low level crossband repeater from the house. it worked great for my needs. It will do a few things that are desired. On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Al Wolfe k...@arrl.net wrote: The other day some of us were discussing replacing the controller in one of our

Re: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Robinson
I psted tech info but a handful jumped on the band wagon of legalities On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Marc Lonstein ki4...@mounlimited.comwrote: I agree this is for tech info 73's ki4ljm Marc Lonstein M.O. Unlimited Inc. P.O. Box 5364 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33310-5364 Ph:

Re: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Robinson
Your first mistake is making the assumption this would be done on a standard residential connection. You can get commercial and better systems to a resident, but only at business expenses. There would be no need to have anything other then the dedicated system on it. Many companies do this

Re: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Robinson
check out the IP-223. it may fit your needs. http://www.northms2way.com/IP-223_BROCHURE.pdf On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jed Barton j...@jedbarton.com wrote: Hey guys, I am working on a project and am wondering if anyone has done this. Here's the proposal, to setup a dispatch center for

Re: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Robinson
again check out the hardware link I posted earlier. The IP-223 is designed for commercial use and is very cutting edge as well as versatile. it is backwards and forward compatible. Then again I dont know anything, I only owned a communications company, and while I truly dont know much about many

Re: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Robinson
There is no system that is fool proof or infallible. I deal with RF links that fail all the time in major cities across the country. Lets consider how many dispatch centers are moving to remote dispatch or even using IP based systems. I know that Woodbury county Iowa just upgraded their system to

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Best coax for marine use

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Robinson
Not having been in the situation to have to rely on the radio while out enjoying the water, I would still use the best I could get. I dont know the turn radius of LMR 400 or even 600 but I would seriously consider something along these lines and avoid all 8x cable. Being locked in to the power

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Antenna spacing

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Robinson
Are you planning to install horizontal or vertical seperation? If horizontil it is going to take several hundred feet to not get interferrence from the other. If you can reduce power to lowest and still make the desired contact you can possibly bring them fairly close. I would suggest to use a

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Antenna spacing

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Robinson
under the description you give you can put them on top of each other separated by a 1/2 wave or better without any real problems. if you are only going to transmit on one at a time then you wont have any reall issues. You will be able to run up to about 25 W without any problems that I can think

Re: [Repeater-Builder] what pac-rt means

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Robinson
I always found their selection of radios to be a bit odd until about 10 years ago. For a while they would use the GE system in the car and a motorola for other systems, but the two would never really synch properly and there was always the drop out every few seconds that was only about a half

Re: [Repeater-Builder] what pac-rt means

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Robinson
help me on a couple pieces I have here. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, MCH m...@nb.net wrote: Sounds like the squelch was open on the PAC if the dropout was 1/2 second. It should have only been about 50 mS (maybe less) and happen every half second. Joe M. Chris Robinson wrote: I

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Passive fer wifi

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Robinson
a passive repeater at wifi freqs wont work. It just dont have enough gusto to make such an idea work. However, I have a similar problem here, and have resolved this with a 8 inch parabola stolen from the clip light, a baby bottle with disposable insert and a couple zip-ties. while it isnt the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sealing coaxial cable at the building entrance question.

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Robinson
If it is already a completed install , I would use a large crack and gap filler silicone. I have not used any foam types so I cant say as to how well they work, but if water is an issue, I would expect foam to act more like a sponge then a sealer. If you can pull a drip loop into it that would

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Robinson
Afternoon Wes, please send my regards to chuck and Kacie and crew, I havent been to an ARES in placer in a few years now. I hope the team is doing well, and I may be in to visit late this year. On topic now, the go to the local machine shop and ask them for the floor sweepings after a good day

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Getting mice out of a repeater sight

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Robinson
If we had been talking about ants, I would suggest a liberal amount of chalk, or even cornstarch/baby powder, however we are talking about much larger critters. I prefer snakes over mice. Snakes do a good job of eating mice as well. On a serious note though, be sure to were even a simple dust

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Building HT antennas

2009-07-10 Thread Chris Robinson
I am assuming this is to be attached to the radio as a typical HT versus a mag mount design? Yes you will need to compensate for a little bit of GP loss, but this wont make a noticable difference in length. the last HT antenna I made was for dual band 2/70cm I used an old tachometer cable as I

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Robinson
What radios do you plan on using? Some radios already have this capability such as the Kenwood TM-V7A which I use for crossband repeater all the time at 50/35watts If you are planning on a base station system and not portable there is also software out that will allow you to use your computer as