Less and less... more Government Agencies out here end up
dumping the equipment at metal salvage locations. Here on
the left coast they seem to be less interested in making it
easy for the public to buy their surplus items in any
decent kind of a deal.
So I ended up buying racks of
At 11/18/2009 15:35, you wrote:
Less and less... more Government Agencies out here end up
dumping the equipment at metal salvage locations.
I'm surprised that can do that, or at least get anything substantial in
return for it considering all the hazardous materials in that equipment
that must
The disappointing part of narrow banding is the text in
the below message. I've been able to narrow band a heck
of a lot of repeater equipment. Surplus repeaters and
radio equipment are a gold mine to innovative and motivated
radio people, who are willing to do both the homework and
skipp025 wrote:
The disappointing part of narrow banding is the text in
the below message. I've been able to narrow band a heck
of a lot of repeater equipment. Surplus repeaters and
radio equipment are a gold mine to innovative and motivated
radio people, who are willing to do both
What's sad is how much will likely go in the dumpster
instead into some deserving ham's hands ;c}
Or made available on/to the surplus market.
Actually, there is still a legal question as to
whether equipment that was not type-accepted for
narrow-band originally will still be legal if
as before, the performance is not.
Andy
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To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Early FM Repeaters (tubes and more
At 11/17/2009 10:34, you wrote:
The disappointing part of narrow banding is the text in
the below message. I've been able to narrow band a heck
of a lot of repeater equipment. Surplus repeaters and
radio equipment are a gold mine to innovative and motivated
radio people, who are willing to do
skipp025 wrote:
What's sad is how much will likely go in the dumpster
instead into some deserving ham's hands ;c}
Or made available on/to the surplus market.
Actually, there is still a legal question as to
whether equipment that was not type-accepted for
narrow-band originally
skipp025 wrote:
or care for local speaker audio.
There is such a glut of used surplus radio equipment on
the market right now that I doubt many people will bother
with using Master Pro-Receivers when a crystal has to be
ordered for each frequency change.
Of recent surprise to me is
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, JOHN MACKEY wrote:
No, I do not have to pay the electric bill.
I only have to replace tubes about every 5-8 years.
It would be easy to build a step-start for the tube cathode and tie that
into the COS/PTT line.
You could keep the tube filament warm with 1V or so and
... 146.94 was the de-facto standard repeater channel
that was perfect for the traveling ham because every
city had a repeater on that pair.
The song remains the same but now in most Metro Areas
every repeater pair is taken... and few are honestly
generating any decent local (notice I
I still have several Mastr Pro repeaters in operation on 6 meters, 2 meters,
UHF.
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Received: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:43:14 AM PST
From: skipp025 skipp...@yahoo.com
I can't tell you how many GE Master Pro Repeaters I'd
have in operation if I wasn't the one paying
Bah...
My first repeater was built from a PRE Prog xmtr and a Motorola
Sensicon receiver (complete with pipes!)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of repeater controllers and accessories.
At 11/14/2009 09:39, you wrote:
Still... a Master Pro Receiver runs on 10 and 12 Volts
Any part of a Mastr Pro RX need 12 V other than the audio PA? IIRC the
Mastr II RX only needs 10 V if you don't power up the audio PA.
(it's solid state) and has one heck of a great receiver
so they could
JOHN MACKEY jmac...@... wrote:
I still have several Mastr Pro repeaters in operation
on 6 meters, 2 meters, UHF.
Ohhh ouch.
Memories of burnt finger tips from trying to pull hot
tubes.
Are you paying the site electric bill John? It's gotta
cost ya dearly to heat those tubes 24/7.
Bah...
My first repeater was built from a PRE Prog xmtr
and a Motorola Sensicon receiver (complete with pipes!)
Careful now... If you start down memory lane I could help
you with a class reunion. I know your shipping address and
I know where a fair number of Sensicons and Pre-Progs are
You don't even need the Audio PA 12 Volts if you don't
want or care for local speaker audio.
There is such a glut of used surplus radio equipment on
the market right now that I doubt many people will bother
with using Master Pro-Receivers when a crystal has to be
ordered for each
No, I do not have to pay the electric bill.
I only have to replace tubes about every 5-8 years.
-- Original Message --
Received: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:39:01 PM PST
From: skipp025 skipp...@yahoo.com
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Early FM Repeaters
At 09:54 PM 11/14/2009, larryjspamme...@teleport.com wrote:
The Red Book was most helpful with the tuneup and crystal ordering info.
--I still have mine :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of
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