[Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Mike Besemer (WM4B)
Greetings all, I normally maintain a couple of 'out-of-the-box' (Kendecom) repeaters, but recently I've been asked to help out with another system that is homebrewed from Micors. It consists of 4 Micors (TX on 2 meters, RX on 2 meters, TX on 440 and RX on 440) linked with a CAT-500 and a set of

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Chuck Kelsey
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice Second, IF the harness plug IS the problem, what's the best course of action? Changing the plug looks like a real bugger. I haven't traced it up to the homebrew controls yet, so I'm not sure how difficult it'd be to swap out

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Mike Besemer (WM4B)
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice You might be better off drilling a hole and running the handful of necessary wires through and soldering them inside the radio. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) mwbese...@cox.net mailto:mwbesemer

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Chuck Kelsey
. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mike Besemer (WM4B) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:05 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice Yeah. I thought of that. It deeply offends my OCD, but that might

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Mike Besemer (WM4B)
...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Kelsey Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:29 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice Maybe you'd feel better re-connectorizing (in-line) the new set of wires. Another thing to watch for with a Micor mobile

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Rick Szajkowski
I had the same sorta set un till I got a harris Radio Phone 60 watts cont. duty right out of the box and thay tune to the ham bang nicely When I ran the Micros I had both worked for RX and TX so if my RX died I could flip the radios and be back on the air thats an idea if it was set up that way

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Rick Szajkowski
Question for the group The repeater is on the out side of town .. coverage in town is ok but could be a lot better TX is GREAT Idea .. can I put a RX (vhf ) site in town and piggy back that to a UHF radio and then feed that into a RLC controller to be linked to the main repeater port or will

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Mike Besemer (WM4B)
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Szajkowski Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:24 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice I had the same sorta set un till I got

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Mike Besemer (WM4B)
, February 21, 2009 2:59 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice Rick,   Yeah… I failed to mention that they’re mobiles.   The original builder stripped all the unneeded parts out of each unit (no TX parts in the RX, and vice versa) so there’s

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Rick Szajkowski
: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice Rick, Yeah… I failed to mention that they're mobiles. The original builder stripped all the unneeded parts out of each unit (no TX parts in the RX, and vice versa) so there's no hope in swapping them. I 'might' be able to swap the 440 RX

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Micor newbie needs advice

2009-02-21 Thread Jeff DePolo
Re: Micor receiver stirp At any rate, I'd like to be able to run this beast on my bench. Where can I come up with a harness and control, and what (if any) additional hardware would I need to be able to get this thing hooked up? The easiest thing would be to find a SpectraTAC receiver