[Repeater-Builder] Re: Any suggestion on repeater controllers using radio link to irlp

2007-09-29 Thread VE3ID
Larry, we are doing this at VE3RPT. Why don't you ask us? 73 id -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU http://nigel.homelinux.net http://va3mcu.ham-radio-op.net You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Repeata-Mate RM-1 ?

2007-09-03 Thread VE3ID
Maybe it was the one I threw away! It is of 1970's vintage. Don't waste your time, it was a very frustrating thing to deal with and it left my TX stuck on more than once. Nowadays the cross-band repeat feature of dual-band rigs delivers a nice clean solution. 73 Nigel ve3id skipp025

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Oxygen Free and stranded audio cables.

2007-09-03 Thread VE3ID
VE3RPT shack when we found that all the sudden QRM was caused because one of them had been in there to tidy up, and tie-wrapped all those untidy coax cables together with power and audio signal cables to make them look nice! I think they live in another world! 73 Nigel ve3id,g4ajq wb6ymh

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tubes...?

2007-09-03 Thread VE3ID
Nigel ve3id John J. Riddell wrote: *I wonder why the seller claims to have Phillips tubes when the picture clearly shows Rogers tubes ?* *Rogers made tubes in Toronto for over 50 years. Ted Rogers Sr invented the batteryless radio* *when he developed tubes that would work with an AC

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Your old work bench - shop pictures are on ebay!

2007-08-01 Thread VE3ID
We used to have some T44s in VE3RPT as link radios, the only problem I remember was keeping them on frequency, since they drifted a lot! 73 Nigel ve3id safemale1 wrote: i have talked on radios that had a vibrater in tham butt i'm 53 years old At 11:37 PM 7/31/2007, Mike Morris wrote

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola Pagers for telemetry

2007-07-10 Thread VE3ID
is the older advisor from what I see of the published pictures 73 Nigel ve3id [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the Advisor was either 512 or 1200 baud POCSG. The RF receiver section determined the frequency range and it plugged into the main board that was the decoder and display. If I

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Acronyms-a little OT

2007-07-07 Thread VE3ID
AFAIK means, IMHO, as far as I know, as far as I know 73 ve3id Doug W7FDF wrote: In the eight to nine years I've been involved with computers and electronic mail and having been licensed since 1959, I have read [and still read everyday] many a article generated here on the largest Amateur

Re: [Repeater-Builder] First repeater?

2007-06-26 Thread VE3ID
All I said was that VE3RPT was the first repeater in *Canada. *I don't know about foreign countries 73 ve3id * * Bob Dengler wrote: At 6/25/2007 08:00 PM, you wrote: At 07:56 PM 6/25/2007, you wrote: What country are you in? The first amateur repeater in Canada was VE3RPT in 1965

Re: [Repeater-Builder] First repeater?

2007-06-25 Thread VE3ID
started much later than that, I have a letter somewhere from an RSGB officer saying they were just considering them on an experimental basis in the seventies. 73, Nigel ve3id mch wrote: I know this is somewhat controversial, but I'm looking for the date/year the first ham repeater was put

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Pre-selector preamps

2006-12-23 Thread VE3ID
of his UHF transmitters somewhere that I hope to put back on the air someday. 73 Nigel ve3id/va3mcu Dan Hancock wrote: Actually the famous GLB preamp is still available. After a couple coporate buy-outs the new company is called Simrex and they still sell the original GLB unitand the even

Re: [Repeater-Builder] FYI: FCC officially issues RO dropping code requirement today

2006-12-15 Thread VE3ID
And at the same time, we can train them to lubricate the dynamotors that provide B+ to their rigs? (HT to you G's) Gentlemen, it is time to move on. Even repeaters have voice ID nowadays. 73 Nigel, ve3id/g4ajq STeve Andre' wrote: And the start of another. It is entirely possible

Re: [Repeater-Builder] RE: repeater antenna suggestions

2006-12-06 Thread VE3ID
to be a true story! 73 Nigel ve3id ony King - W4ZT wrote: I seem to remember Myth Busters busted that one ;) 73, Tony W4ZT Mike Perryman wrote: You must be talking about the Darwin Award story.. LOL! 73 Mike Perryman www.k5jmp.us -Original Message- From