[Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread kc7stw
This has to be a joke right? Look at item number, 130377678510 $1,320 are they for real? I really love the missing covers, the bent case and the rust. Adds real class.

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread ka9qjg
Well some just do not know , be Thankful We have this wonderful group that educates us He also has a $900 Antenna Happy repeater Building Don KA9QJG From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of kc7stw Sent: Saturday, March 27,

[Repeater-Builder] Look to buy a RICK

2010-03-27 Thread Bruce
Hello all, I'm in need of a used RICK. Any one in the group have a clue where I may get one? Or any help how to make two Motorola radios 1: GM300 and a 2: SM120 work as a repeater? Thank you Bruce

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Curtis
Have you ever watched the movie the ninth gate? Someone comes to a fellow with a massive lot of stuff. Buys the choicest bits for a song because he told the fellow: This other stuff is too expensive for me but you can sell it on ebay for a premium price. :) Kb0wlf -Original Message-

[Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread kg2bv
Our Club (www.CNYARA.com)is in need of a weather resistant Repeater Cabinet that will house our 2-Meter Repeater, to include all of the equipment necessary (Duplexers, Power Supply, etc) to operate. We currently have a nice interior cabinet, however it has been determined that it is in our

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Lee Pennington
Try to find a surplus Traffic control cabinet from your municipal, county, or state department of transportation. They are usually all aluminum and weathertight. Sometimes they are sold for aluminum scrap. de Lee K4LJP 73 On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:55 AM, kg2bv kg...@yahoo.com wrote: Our Club

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Dennis
Use an old refrigerator or freezer. Dennis Lee Pennington wrote: Try to find a surplus Traffic control cabinet from your municipal, county, or state department of transportation. They are usually all aluminum and weathertight. Sometimes they are sold for aluminum scrap. de Lee K4LJP 73

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Jack Taylor
Use an outdoor crapper and hang an Out of Order sign on it. Jack - N7OO - Original Message - From: kg2bv To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 5:55 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Richard
Heh Thanks, I just sprayed coffee all over my keyboard! Richard www.n7tgb.net The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money --Margaret Thatcher _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Ken Arck
At 05:55 AM 3/27/2010, kg2bv wrote: Our Club (www.CNYARA.com)is in need of a weather resistant Repeater Cabinet that will house our 2-Meter Repeater, to include all of the equipment necessary (Duplexers, Power Supply, etc) to operate. We currently have a nice interior cabinet, however it has

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread Eric Lemmon
Not really. The vendor of the GR300 repeater is as sane as you and me, and he is really smart. He knows that some nut out in la-la land will gladly pay that amount and more for the clunker. Notice that programming and shipping are not included in the Buy It Now price. I have no doubt that if

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Question about antenna separation

2010-03-27 Thread Eric Lemmon
James, This is a gray area, where there are no pat answers. That said, my CommShop for Windows program calculated that 95 dB of isolation is needed for zero desense, and that can be achieved with 317 feet of vertical separation. This is a ballpark figure, since many assumptions are made in the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Chuck Kelsey
Or a vinyl one from Sam's Club Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Ken Arck ah...@ah6le.net To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant At 05:55 AM

[Repeater-Builder] TAIT T807 power supply repair

2010-03-27 Thread Andreas Papagapiou
Hi all! I'm trying to repair a TAIT T807 power supply. The T4 transformer (115/230V to 18V) was damaged during transport. I had one custom-made, but without the 115V winding. I installed it and along with it replaced C37 which looked ... defective. Now the power supply goes into stand-by mode

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Ken Arck
At 10:10 AM 3/27/2010, Chuck Kelsey wrote: Or a vinyl one from Sam's Club ---Not as secure but that is still better than an outdoor cabinet. Especially when you need to work on things and the weather is less than..nice Ken

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread Wayne Leake
I see assorted items for various prices on Ebay. Some worthwhile, some not, like the 800 Mhz Exec II that the seller says jhe was told can be conveted to 400 Mhz. 900 Maybe, but not 400 without swapping parts. Sellers giving part numbers as model numbers, like a Delta S (I think it is an S) and

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Maxtrac Channel Control

2010-03-27 Thread kd8biw
Thanks for the informaiton everyone! I think I got what I needed to make this work. The site is pretty empty as far a repeaters go, 2 UHF, 1 VHF, and a 220. Will make sure I don't interfer with anything, but I only need 2 or 3 channels on the radio. Thanks everyone for the replies and

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Maxtrac Channel Control

2010-03-27 Thread Leroy A. M. Baptiste
Hey Steve, what did you find out? I am also interested in a system like that. Leroy. J39AI -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of kd8biw Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 3:01 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Quirk
Ebay is like any other retail buying process, some people pay to much some get great deals.   There is also Cragslist, QRZ, the ARRL ads Radioreference   Uninformed buyers and sellers get what they deserve. I use Ebay a lot and bcause I am careful and research things I do not get stuck   I also

[Repeater-Builder] Anyone familiar with this NPC 243 ID'er?

2010-03-27 Thread larryjspamme...@teleport.com
I picked up what appears to be a bunch of base station / Repeater ID'ers. I have no other clue as to anything else that they might be. They're an NPC model 243 - I haven't found anything on the web about them. They are a circuit board mounted in a small box (6-1/2 X 5-3/4), which is a little

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Anyone familiar with this NPC 243 ID'er?

2010-03-27 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Don't pitch them yet. If all else fails, they are programmable devices and can be recycled. I'll take them if no one else needs them. I can read what's in them and see if I can make sense out of it. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: larryjspamme...@teleport.com

[Repeater-Builder] Sineman/Gary Schafer

2010-03-27 Thread Dawn
Did you get the e-mail of the Sineman brochure or do I have a wrong e-mail addy?

[Repeater-Builder] SS-32M Tone Encoder

2010-03-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Greetings to the group, Anyone have the PDF of the Com-Spec SS-32M CTCSS encoder board, I need to change tone frequency. Thanks, Randy WB9LE

RE: [Repeater-Builder] SS-32M Tone Encoder

2010-03-27 Thread ka9qjg
Randy I think it is on the This Site http://www.repeater-builder.com/com-spec/com-spec-index.html Good Luck Don KA9QJG From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Fisher Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:58 PM To:

RE: [Repeater-Builder] SS-32M Tone Encoder

2010-03-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Just the P and the SMP, I have the M different board. I look there before, the Com-Specs web site don't it either? Thanks, for responding! From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ka9qjg Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 6:02 PM To:

[Repeater-Builder] Re:Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread Greg Beat
Unit is in Colorado. Maybe the poor boy is oxygen deprived. gb

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Joe
When I worked in the paging business we had a couple of outdoor Motorola cabinets that worked OK. Maybe you can find one from someone still in the business. I've got one in the garage, but I want it. The other thought would be to stay inside the shelter and connect an outdoor source of air

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Are people on ebay nuts?

2010-03-27 Thread kc7stw
Not really a rant but more of a joke. I found it to be out right funny. But, I have a GR300 I will sell you for 2500 bucks? ;) (besides the tech stuff was hurting my head.) Not sure why these rants get started but if you do not like what you see just click past it  

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Outdoor Pole or Wall Repeater Cabinet - Weather Resistant

2010-03-27 Thread Robert Pease
Try your local DOT. Look for a used traffic control box. The kind you see sitting on the corner of an intersection. Usually when they redo intersections they put in new and discard the old. You may need a second one for the duplexors but that's not usually a bad thing Rov Sent by Good

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Sineman/Gary Schafer

2010-03-27 Thread Gary Schafer
Yes I got it, thanks. I never saw one of those that was after my time with helper. -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater- buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dawn Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 5:45 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com

[Repeater-Builder] Re: NOS GE Phoenix For Sale

2010-03-27 Thread kb5zxm
I forget how many frequency's will it accept? --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Gary n6...@... wrote: New/old stock GE VHF Phoenix PSX-200 synthesized mobile for sale. Model N5HH2w40CB with mic, bracket, original order card, and some wiring. Absolutely new in the box. I think it's all

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: NOS GE Phoenix For Sale

2010-03-27 Thread MCH
I think the 200 was 16 channels with an option for 32 channels. While I'm typing, does anyone have a source for a replacement Whelen microphone element? I can't justify $150 for one from Whelen. Even a source for a good used Whelen mic would be welcome. And sorry about the off-topic post