[Repeater-Builder] Re: OT - Tower Photographs needed

2009-05-21 Thread Don
You Might check Here for some Pics http://tinyurl.com/om6t7x http://tinyurl.com/r2xcsj And here is the Video with Pictures of the Tower in Il the Helo Hit http://tinyurl.com/orazsd Hope that helps Don KA9QJG

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - Tower Photographs needed

2009-05-21 Thread Kris Kirby
On Thu, 21 May 2009, rahwayflynn wrote: > Anyone with a 500+ guyed tower? I am working on a power point > presentation for the local OEM. The subject matter is selecting an > appropriate LZ for medivac helicopters, IE keep the aircraft away from > towers and power lines. > > What I am looking

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - Tower Photographs needed

2009-05-21 Thread George Henry
If you don't get any other offers, I'm only about 10 or 12 miles from the 975-footer in Aurora, Illinois that took down an Air Angels chopper during a night flight last year, killing the crew and the 13-month old infant they were transporting. I could probably buzz out there over the weekend an

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-05-21 Thread wd8chl
skipp025 wrote: > Some people use voice detection to make/provide a COS/COR > logic, some folks "tack on" a CTCSS (PL) Decoder and some > actually open the radio to find a usable "tap point" in > the receiver circuit. Depending on how tricky (and how much > money) you want to invest in the pac

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-05-21 Thread wd8chl
skipp025 wrote: > Hi Fred, > > It would probably be more accurate to call it a cross band > port hole or window unless both bands are full repeaters with > audio and COS/COR working together. worm hole?

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-05-21 Thread Brian
Hey If you want a simple kit the partical Basic controller kit is very reasonable. www.ics-ctrl.com 73 Brian ka9pmm skipp025 wrote: > > > Hi Fred, > > It would probably be more accurate to call it a cross band > port hole or window unless both bands are full repeaters with > audio and COS/COR w

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Help with power supply

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Lemmon
Charles, You can't "convert" a 28 VDC Astron power supply to a lower voltage, unless you replace the power transformer and regulator board, and possibly the pass transistors. Since the Astron linear power supplies use a series-pass regulator design, the pass transistors could burn up if expected

[Repeater-Builder] Re: maxon enduro prog

2009-05-21 Thread skipp025
Sorry I missed you Ted, would have been nice to meet me... %&^*$ ... I mean meet you. :-) Telepath in California is a Maxon Dealer and I've ordered programming cables from them in the past. You might contact them if nothing else pans out. www.telepathcorp.com/ Nail them down on the exact s

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-05-21 Thread skipp025
Hi Fred, It would probably be more accurate to call it a cross band port hole or window unless both bands are full repeaters with audio and COS/COR working together. It's been done many times with both mobiles and portables with an example like the Motorola Radius/Maxtrac Radios wired "back

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Homebrew low power Repeater

2009-05-21 Thread william
Hello:Dave ypur proyet is a verry good idea, I will like to have more information on the way it put together, i like to know it be posible to make i wiht tow hi power mobiles radios it be great. thanks for the atencion to this meassge. William N1LIU73'S --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogrou

RE: [Repeater-Builder] maxon enduro prog

2009-05-21 Thread ka9qjg
Ted , Have You checked with http://www.brinkleyelectronics.com/ I think You have know them for Years , If they Don't I am sure they will know someone Good Luck Don KA9QJG

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex base station conversion to repeater

2009-05-21 Thread WD7F - John in Tucson
Thanks Skipp...I was thinking there was more info on changing the base station to a repeater and as Oliver said "Sir, I want more !". de WD7F John in Tucson - Original Message - From: "skipp025" To: Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:16 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Help with power supply

2009-05-21 Thread Ed Bathgate
Charles Checkout the Astron page on the repeater builder website. There is a lot of info on general linear supplies using the LM723 regulator chip. You should be able to change the zener reference diode, and tune it down to 13.8v and deliver the same current. ***Danger, notice here *** You will

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Desense on High Power Linear Repeater?

2009-05-21 Thread wd8chl
Jeff DePolo wrote: >> This leads me to a question that I have had on my mind. How >> are people >> doing desense testing with D-Star systems? (Remember, it's digital.) >> >> 73, Joe, K1ike > > How about this - record a clean D-Star transmission (not decoded, just the > "raw" output from an FM re

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Desense on High Power Linear Repeater?

2009-05-21 Thread wd8chl
atms169 wrote: > I don't have any test equipment that would work for the digital dstar > so it's more of a trial and error thing. There ought to be an analog mode...if there isn't, Icom made a HUGE fubar!

[Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex base station conversion to repeater

2009-05-21 Thread skipp025
Hi John, Got to lay off the brandy so early in the morning... :-) 3rd one down from the blue bar: sqlgate.zip - Revised MSR2000 to external controller conversion. http://www.radiowrench.com/sonic/so02004.html cheers, s. > "WD7F - John in Tucson" wrote: > > Skipp, where on the /sonic p

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex base station conversion to repeater

2009-05-21 Thread WD7F - John in Tucson
Skipp, where on the /sonic page is the MSR2000 info? I know I had a couple extra glasses of wine at my grand-daughter's graduation party last night, however..duh ! de WD7F John in Tucson - Original Message - From: "skipp025" To: Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:02 AM Subject: [Repeater

[Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex base station conversion to repeater

2009-05-21 Thread skipp025
> "mike" wrote: > To complete an MSR2000 and provided you have the correct > modules for a repeater, you will also need to put in the correct > Jumpers. Maybe someone who has done this could provide just > the jumpers that are needed to be installed to make the unit a > repeater. Then one cou

[Repeater-Builder] maxon enduro prog

2009-05-21 Thread Ted Bleiman K9MDM - MDM Radio
gentlemen: I hope all are recovered from the Dayton experience and dried out by this time. my feet are still damp but, its a price i pay for schmoozing with all the folks I saw at Dayton. To the business at hand: I searched all over but no one knew about this particular radio. I have 2 vhf Maxon

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Desense on High Power Linear Repeater?

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Oliver
At this point if you need to use the amplifier your best bet is to just reduce the output until the desense goes away and call it good. tom > [Original Message] > From: atms169 > To: > Date: 5/20/2009 10:52:37 PM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Desense on High Power Linear Repeater? > > Hey

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Desense on High Power Linear Repeater?

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff DePolo
> This leads me to a question that I have had on my mind. How > are people > doing desense testing with D-Star systems? (Remember, it's digital.) > > 73, Joe, K1ike How about this - record a clean D-Star transmission (not decoded, just the "raw" output from an FM receiver) on a PC with a good

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Desense on High Power Linear Repeater?

2009-05-21 Thread Milt
This brings up the question of how one actually does testing of a D-Star system. So far it seems that trail and error is the only way things actually get measured. Having read that the D-Star boxes Icom sells are little more than mobiles in a box I am wondering if it is possible to set the i

[Repeater-Builder] Re: MSR 2000 simplex base station conversion to repeater

2009-05-21 Thread mike
To complete an MSR2000 and provided you have the correct modules for a repeater, you will also need to put in the correct Jumpers. Maybe someone who has done this could provide just the jumpers that are needed to be installed to make the unit a repeater. Then one could check to make sure the un