Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Morris
At 07:27 PM 11/27/05, you wrote: --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll bite... what does TAS stand for? ___ TAS = the absolute sound [www.theabsolutesound.com] A high end audio publication. Actually - I

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Chuck Kelsey
That was my thought. But he missed April 1st. Chuck Al Wolfe wrote: I think we've been had. This is obviously a joke isn't it? 73, Al, K9SI Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:10:07 - From: us_communications1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Neil McKie
Unfortunately, I don't think so ... Neil Al Wolfe wrote: I think we've been had. This is obviously a joke isn't it? 73, Al, K9SI Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:10:07 - From: us_communications1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: trying to build my first repeater the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread JHCCRadio
GMRS Licence is easy Just FCC Web site with in 24 hours you have it YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "Repeater-Builder" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the

[Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Bob Witte K0NR
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, nj902 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, us_communications1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR IS DIRECTION OF HOW OTHERS DID THIS. the radios are 30+ years old so i can't believe that i am the first to

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Neil McKie
Slightly ... Neil Chuck Kelsey wrote: That was my thought. But he missed April 1st. Chuck Al Wolfe wrote: I think we've been had. This is obviously a joke isn't it? 73, Al, K9SI Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:10:07 - From: us_communications1 [EMAIL

[Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Doug D.
John, GMRS License (new) $80 for 5 years. License available for individuals (does cover just about entire family though) only. No Groups or Businesses. Here is a description from the FCC GMRS webpage. The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a land-mobile radio service available for

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Joe
Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a GMRS repeater for he and his wife. He has aprox. 50 acres of woods that he likes to walk around in and is in his 70's. His wife is concerned about him needing to contact her, so I got them a pair of Midland GMRS radios. They don't

Re: [Repeater-Builder] GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Yonge
On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:44 AM, JOHN MACKEY wrote: What does it take to get a GMRS license in the US now? John - I just applied for mine. It is my understanding that one must apply as an individual. One must first obtain an FCC Registration Number (FRN) from http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/

[Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread rtoplus
Hi Joe I have 4 GMRS repeaters set up in my area. If all he wants to do is to talk over his 50 acres, wouldn't a base with a decently high antenna and quality hand held suit the need? Course a repeater would be nice for them for trips to town or whatever if he has the space for equipment

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Tait T856 audio question

2005-11-28 Thread wa6rqd
Bernd Maestling wrote: Hello Ed, I'm using an external controller. I think the flat response sounds best. I wired T855 output PIN 1 (Line I/P1) via the controller to the T856 inputs Audio1/Audio2 (Pin6/5). If I use the RX's Audio 1/2 outputs I have a strange, loud noise on the audio.

[Repeater-Builder] 2m Reslock to 220 mod ?

2005-11-28 Thread radeohedca
A few years ago I modified a 2 meter Reslock duplexer for my 220 repeater. I would like to help a friend modify another Reslock but I have since lost the mod info that I followed. It involved cutting a chunk out of each resonator and splicing the pieces back together using a copper coupler and

[Repeater-Builder] OT: IC-7000

2005-11-28 Thread Doug Fitts W7FDF
This just in from Icom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning Doug, The IC-7000 has been type accepted by the FCC and all of our dealers are currently taking orders for the unit. I believe that Ham Radio Outlet is taking orders on the unit for $1499. I have included the URL to to HRO below.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread wvines
I second the request for GMRS repeater info : ) I've seen the delay repeaters... not interested. It's just a retrans voice recording. How complicated would it be to make a low cost yet efficient GMRS repeater? I'm guessing there is ALOT more to it than I am seeing since there is hardly anything

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Morris
At 06:57 AM 11/28/05, you wrote: Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a GMRS repeater for he and his wife. He has aprox. 50 acres of woods that he likes to walk around in and is in his 70's. His wife is concerned about him needing to contact her, so I got them a

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: trying to build my first repeater

2005-11-28 Thread Mathew Quaife
Awesome, Hi Fidelity into my tinty sounding Kenwood, cheap external speaker, and better yet, that tiny little speaker in that tiny little HT. Why produce something that only so few radios will even notice the difference, if in fact you are able to make it. I heard and RC85 controller sound just

[Repeater-Builder] Dayton Hamvention IWCE the same week.

2005-11-28 Thread skipp025
In case no one else noticed... Dayton Hamvention IWCE in the same week. IWCE May 15-19 http://www.iwceexpo.com/ Dayton Hamvention May 19-21 http://www.hamvention.org/ Going to be a busy week... cheers, skipp Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Finch
Neil, Good question, you are not really modifying the transmitter or receiver at all, just removing the diode antenna switch, making the receiver hot all the time and separating the RX and TX with coaxes. I have a couple of these little repeaters on Ham frequencies, they work great. I used one

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Neil McKie
Question: Does the Johnson 6060 meet FCC Type Acceptance for GMRS? Neil - WA6KLA Mike Morris wrote: At 06:57 AM 11/28/05, you wrote: Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a GMRS repeater for he and his wife. He has aprox. 50 acres of woods that he

[Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: Looking for Dave Fortenberry, NA6DF

2005-11-28 Thread na6df
Huh?? Who, me?? 8-) just lurking occasionally.. no longer getting emails, but looking at messages via the web, when I can remember to. I was getting too many emails daily, so I changed over to the web method.. Wus up? 7treez, dave fortenberry, NA6DF --- In

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Tait T856 audio question

2005-11-28 Thread Bernd Maestling
Hello Ed, I can't follow you at the moment. My settings are now the following: T855: PL100 1-2 PL101 2-3 PL102 2-3 PL103 1-2 PL104 1-2 Pl105 1-2 PL106 1-2 T856: PL100 3-4 PL101 5-6 PL102 5-6 PL103 1-2 The Audio is going from the T855 Pin 1 (Line I/P1) - controller - T856 Pin 6 (Audio 2). All

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Johnny
No, it does not. Johnny Neil McKie wrote: Question: Does the Johnson 6060 meet FCC Type Acceptance for GMRS? Neil - WA6KLA Mike Morris wrote: At 06:57 AM 11/28/05, you wrote: Interesting. I have a friend who was just asking me about a GMRS repeater for he and his wife.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Joe
I have a spare UHF repeater and duplexer for the project and he has a 65 foot tower on the property, so putting a repeater on the air would not be difficult. His wife could then use an HT around the house to keep in contact with him. I guess my confusion is that the license requirements state

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Tait T856 audio question

2005-11-28 Thread wa6rqd
Bernd Maestling wrote: Hello Ed, I can't follow you at the moment. My settings are now the following: T855: PL100 1-2 PL101 2-3 PL102 2-3 PL103 1-2 PL104 1-2 Pl105 1-2 PL106 1-2 T856: PL100 3-4 PL101 5-6 PL102 5-6 PL103 1-2 The Audio is going from the T855 Pin 1 (Line

[Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large (?25 ft.) faced tower

2005-11-28 Thread Roger White
I am going to put up a Andrews dB224JJ (220 MHz antenna) on our tower at TI in Dallas. I have had an antenna on this tower up at 250-270 ft. for many years (a 6dB Stationmaster for 145 MHz and a 6dB Stationmaster for 224 MHz). Our 2 meter antenna is now a dB224, with the dipoles situated

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Maxar 80

2005-11-28 Thread Mark A. Holman
He should have been placed on the Guiness Book world records Mathew Quaife wrote: And somewhere in all that he placed his wife, has not been able to find her since. LOL. Reminds me of the house I visited once upon a time, and not kidding in any way here, but the guy had every room in the

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Finch
Johnny, What constitutes the loss of the FCC type acceptance? Does anyone have the rules section pertaining to this question? Like I said, the worst thing you do to some of these radios is removal of the antenna switch which has caused some interference problems with near field transmitters.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large (?25 ft.) faced tower

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Lemmon
Roger, My Decibel Products catalog shows that a DB224E-JJ antenna can achieve nearly omnidirectional coverage when side-mounted on a tower with a DB5001 Side Mount Kit, with all dipoles pointing inward toward the tower. This kit positions the antenna mast 18 inches away from the tower. Other

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Yonge
On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Joe wrote I guess my confusion is that the license requirements state that it is for family, but the repeater would be for many other people. What are the legalities? Joe - There's a good paper on repeater usage at www.provide.net/ ~prsg/rpt-ctr.htm. It's

Re: [Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large (?25 ft.) faced tower

2005-11-28 Thread Roger White
Ok, many thanks. I do not have the old catalog and remember something about the orientation of the dipoles toward the tower. But, I imagine since this tower is so wide, it will affect the pattern no matter what, but the site has cheap rent :), so beggars can't be choosers! 73, Roger -

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Mark A. Holman
What the mfgrs do is that they have to say for example ABC Brand Radio Model number 123456789 they submit so many of that model number, the units undergo the process with all the equiptment to see if they meet a certain criteria something like this... Frequency Stability in ppm Mike

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Two Tone Sequential Paging - UPDATE

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Lemmon
I read the EIA-374-A from cover to cover, and it doesn't have anything about two-tone sequential paging tone formats. So much for assuming that the title is accurate! Since Motorola developed the Quik-Call II format, there is probably a published manual on the format specs, but I haven't found

Re: [Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large (?25 ft.) faced tower

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Guello
What broadcasters do to get the best pattern on a large tower is to mount the antenna on the leg coming straignt off the leg. (perpendicular with the opposite face) Paul --- Roger White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, many thanks. I do not have the old catalog and remember something about the

[Repeater-Builder] Sinclair duplexer coax jumper lengths

2005-11-28 Thread Alan McClain
I have an older set of Sinclair duplexers that have the four external tuning stubs connected to the cans by T's and the RG-214 coax jumpers. The duplexers were originally used on a USDA repeater at 160 mhz. I'd like to put these on a two meter repeater, but someone told me that I'd need to

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Johnny
Paul, The PPL6060 is a dern good little radio. HOWEVER, They are not type accepted for repeater service because they do not meet the frequency tolerance spec's for repeater service. 95.621 (b) Each GMRS transmitter for mobile station, small base station and control station operation must be

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GMRS in USA

2005-11-28 Thread Johnny
Joe, The Lakes Area GMRS Repeater Group has a lot of good GMRS information on their website. Go to: http://eebie38.tripod.com/gmrs/ Hope this helps. Johnny Joe wrote: I have a spare UHF repeater and duplexer for the project and he has a 65 foot tower on the property, so putting a repeater

Re: [Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large (?25 ft.) faced tower

2005-11-28 Thread Roger White
That is the manner in which our 2 meter dB224 is mounted at present. Roger W5RD - Original Message - From: Paul Guello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] DB 224 Antenna Orientation on a large

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Two Tone Sequential Paging - UPDATE

2005-11-28 Thread Neil McKie
Hey Eric, Is that a suggestion I go look? Neil Eric Lemmon wrote: I read the EIA-374-A from cover to cover, and it doesn't have anything about two-tone sequential paging tone formats. So much for assuming that the title is accurate! Since Motorola developed the Quik-Call II