I got 5 dual-band antennas and 500 ft 1/2 hardline for 5 remote
receive
sites that was put on water towers.
Lucky guy! We aren't having any luck getting onto water towers, even
WITH ema support. There's one locally that is in a perfect location,
owned by the local water company.. No
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Whats the issue with the water company site?
In one case, it was just a flat out NO, with no appeal, no logic, no
reason.. In another, security concerns.
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http://www.wv7u.com/audiovideo/Transformer%20Failure.mpg
Needs a bigger heat sink :)
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For starters dump the RG 8 Feedline
AMEN! Icky icky icky..
Could be worse, at least it's not a UHF machine!
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We had to
have a structural analysis done to prove we weren't going to cause
the tank
to collapse (no, I'm not joking).
Now THAT's funny! Brother, I feel your pain.
Your whole antenna system probably weighs less than 100 gallons of
water, even covered with enough ice to collapse it.
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Thats tough when they arent willing to go beyond NO
Yes.. Hard to deal with it when they won't even discuss.
So for now, we keep building up the new gear, and will probably install
it in our existing site which
I would contact them, and let them know what frequency it ended up at,
and take it from there.
Pulling a crystal off it's resonant point is not a very good idea.
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Well, I made an interesting discovery today.
My local hobby store carries K+S hobby metal. Their 9/16 tubing makes
almost an exact collett for taking up the space between the FSJ1-50 and
the LMR-400 crimp style N connectors. A 3' piece cost me almost $4 with
tax.
So, I cleaned the tubing
Preferrably silver plated, N for FSJ1-50
Need 20+
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vice-versa.
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Hello Group,
Have a dual antenna system for a 2M
At 07:09 PM 7/24/2005, Mark A. Holman wrote:
Wanna hear what some co's doing ? plastic cans :(
Sounds like wine in a bag, or a pocket full of gasoline, not a
terribly good idea.
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At 06:01 PM 7/23/2005, drwoolweaver wrote:
Ham club wishes to use one VHF receive antenna for three different VHF
receive systems. Two VHF repeaters and one packet digit. Any
suggestions on how this can be done and where is the best place in the
antenna system to install a preamp? Transmitters
At 05:38 AM 7/22/2005, Mike Pugh wrote:
But does it pass the common sense test? I agree, it is legal and within
our rights to possess the thing, but knowing that possession alone could
possibly get you into trouble,
Isn't that an oxymoron?
and knowing that you had no need to own
it besides to
At 11:12 AM 7/22/2005, Jim B. wrote:
Mike Pugh wrote:
Whether he DID or DID NOT do anything illegal is up to the courts to
decide. Apparently, one can infer from the arresting officer's actions
that the officer had probable cause to arrest him based on what he
observed Mike
No-only
At 01:21 PM 7/22/2005, Kris Kirby wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Jeff Condit wrote:
Standard coffee cans solder together pretty easily because of the tin
plating they usually used, provided you have a soldering iron with a
good sized copper tip. A few of them started being plastic coated and
At 12:52 AM 7/21/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Well, I have not heard anything from the FAA, but I can still see
the spurs on the SA, not real bad. But it still seems that I am
riding along the 132.950 at least on my radio, but I get a few miles
from the house and nothing. I'm still using the
I spend the extra money and save money by using International or
Bomar. International is in some kind of screwed up situation, think
due to them buying out Sentry, with 6 + weeks delievery. Bomar cost
more, but both make an excellent crystal.
I've had good results from West, in canada.
At 11:30 AM 7/21/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
I'm starting to think it is either something coming in or the Vocom
Amp that is the culprit, but something is funny. I know my Yaesu
FT7736R is a very clean transmitter, and at two watts output, really
hard for it to send spurs out.
Check it
Sounds like intermod.
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it SQUEALING like it hereing a signal
How's it going up there?
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Mornin' Jimmy,
Anyone have a manual for the S-Com MRC- 100 controller in PDF or
Need command structure to reprogram
The MRC-100 short form command list is available at:
http://www.scomllc.com/resource.shtml
Dave
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Dave Maciorowski, WA1JHK
Author of S
At 09:43 AM 7/19/2005, Gran Clark wrote:
Joe
Carefully consider expanding into switchers. The designs are quite
varied. To repair them you really need a good high frequency scope,
shielded isolation transformer, 0.18 ohm 1000 watt resistor load,
and most of all a good schematic. Switcher
If you do the calculations on wasted heat, this comes
to an additional 4147 KWh per year on the Astron, and
an additional 1175 KWh/ year on the IOTA. If you live
in an area with 10 cents/KHh power (typical) then your
power savings in one year will be almost $300.
We don't pay the power bill at
Think how many houses have that exact same situation.
I know I suffer from this big-time.
Lots of wall wart devices.
They are going to switchers though, it's finally come to the place
where the switcher is cheaper than the iron and shipping from China.
Last year, I needed a new wart for
At 05:18 PM 7/19/2005, Tony King, W4ZT wrote:
One caution about these switchers. Many of the cheap switchers being
made today both as chargers and supplies generate tremendous amounts of
RFI. A number of my ham friends have experienced unbearable
interference from these devices. Note that they
At 06:49 PM 7/17/2005, Bruce Nanney wrote:
Does anybody have a web site to look at IOTA power supply? I need to find
some to replace my power supplies in the future. Bruce KD4BOH.-
I picked up one on ebay recently, very competitive pricing.
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At 08:36 PM 7/17/2005, Mark A. Holman wrote:
Same Here whats a BHF ?
Berry High Frequency, of course! :)
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At 11:01 AM 7/13/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the ARU251 repeaters use the Oven crystals, if
so how can one be sure if they are oven xtals or if they are standard.
An ovenized crystal should be sitting in a little cylindrical hat
that has a heater in it.
Usually a
Anyone out there have a pair of APC-7 to N adaptors they would be
willing to sell?
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At 04:24 PM 7/11/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Hi Bob, well I agree, I could spend hours trying to repair this one
and never find the problem. It could be bad solder joints, ot a bad
coil all together. Let me take a look before I have you send me
that one. I have another exciter, can't recall
At 09:25 PM 7/9/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
First I would like to thank Dave from Muncie, IN and his father for
coming out and assisting with the beast of a nuisance.
Glad to do it, and glad to meet you!
It was an interesting situation. After all the theories, the facts
turned out
This reminds me of an incident many years ago when Industry Canada (then
called DOC) contacted us re a ham 2 meter mobile interfering with
aircraft communications. To make a long story short, the local ham
wanted more power out of his transmitter and had physically adjusted the
low pass
At 08:47 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
If I'm to understand, would this cavity betuned to notch the 132.950
Mhz frequecny? Whatever it is that is interefering is an
intermittant problem, as it is only evident at times. I have
noticed over the past few days that the audio on the repeater
At 09:42 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Ok, this brought up a good point. Just for sakes I took the watt
meter, from the amp into a 50 ohm load, I get 140 watts out, into
the duplexer's I get 70 watts out, something there has
changed. With a 2.2 dB insertion loss, I should be getting right
At 09:42 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Ok, this brought up a good point. Just for sakes I took the watt
meter, from the amp into a 50 ohm load, I get 140 watts out, into
the duplexer's I get 70 watts out, something there has changed.
Wait a minute! You're saying that the amp is only
At 09:59 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Oops on me, 140 into the duplexer with 70 watts out and a 2.2 dB
insertion loss on the cans per TXRX. 3 Cans per side. I figured it
up at 140 watts in which should give me about 88.6 watts back out of
the duplexer.
OK, that makes more sense, and
At 10:16 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Well I just did a quick tweak on the tx duplexer, with 5 watts in I
get three watts out, but then put the 140 watts in and still only
get 75 watts out of the duplexer. Why would it change with higher
power levels? I had asked that question once
At 10:45 AM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Typically to say, there is nothing in this area as far as repeaters,
a few on 460 Mhz and one on VHF at 158 Mhz, other than the two cell
towers more than 5 miles away, that is about it.
This gets into an area that I need to understand better, how do
At 12:12 PM 7/8/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Well here is the final results of what I have done this morning, and
listening to the aircraft band, I have not heard anything come back
as of yet. I reduced the duplexers to 4 cans rather than 6, with
140 watts into the duplexer, I am getting 105
At 02:01 PM 7/8/2005, Bob Dengler wrote:
At 7/8/2005 08:45 AM, you wrote:
Typically to say, there is nothing in this area as far as repeaters, a few
on 460 Mhz and one on VHF at 158 Mhz, other than the two cell towers more
than 5 miles away, that is about it.
The 2 vs. 3 cans on the TX side of
At 02:11 AM 7/6/2005, Doug W7FDF wrote:
Problem resolved!!I disconnected the Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless
router power source for about 30 seconds, reattached the power and
then checked the QRZ website again.all is OK now. This has
happened
before where strange things happen while surfing the
At 02:40 AM 7/6/2005, Steven Passmore, kf6fkk wrote:
My linksys used to stop working about once a week so I did exactly that. The
timer shut it off for 1 minute at 4AM. Eventually I dumped the stupid
linksys and am now using a linux box as a router. I haven't looked back
since.
It's on my todo
I powered down the Mastr Pro receiver, noise still there,
only thing left was the cat controller, powered it down and noise is
gone. This noise was heard over a large frequency spread in the
aircraft band on the SM. Could it be possible that the controller
could be the cause sending havac out
At 02:47 PM 7/6/2005, Bob Dengler wrote:
At 7/6/2005 12:26 PM, you wrote:
No - 157.870 IS the correct mix to combine with 145.410 and end up on
132.950 MHz - do the math again. The difference is 12.460 MHz.
145.410 - 12.46 = 132.950
145.410 + 12.46 = 157.870
Joe M.
OK, 12.46 is the
I'm not opposed to coming up there.
I have some personal business to take care of tomorrow, and a
committment on friday, but after that I think I'm free. We should be
able to run it down pretty quick, at least to pin down what's causing
it. Doesn't sound like you're having any trouble getting
At 08:48 PM 7/5/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
Ok, the situation is that my repeater is being heard by commercial
aircraft on 132.950 Mhz.
Ouch! BTDT, with a kenwood synthesized transmitter that didn't
detect out of lock properly.
I had to pull the plug till it was resolved.
I've looked at the
At 09:06 PM 7/5/2005, Ken Arck wrote:
At 01:48 AM 7/6/2005 -, you wrote:
Ok, the situation is that my repeater is being heard by commercial
aircraft on 132.950 Mhz. At first they was able to identify one user
of the system, this was in June. Then again the repeater was heard on
June 22,
There is a wound of coax on the output of the exciter to reduce the
power going into the amplifier, as the amp only needs 2 watts of draw to
run it.
That dosen't help you here, the stub specifically attenuates the
bad frequency, and passes the good one.
Your repeater cans probably don't
At 10:17 PM 7/5/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
The Vocom amp is a commercial made amp, designed for repeater use,
this particular model is no longer made, but the company still makes
them, all new design and new staff. I think what my biggest concern
is, that all of this did not crop up until
At 11:56 PM 7/5/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
I'm almost to the point of just scraping the iron and starting back
at the basics. Actually I am almost ready to pull hairs. With so
much time lapse in playing with this, I have forgotten most
everything, so I really have to scratch my head. Might
So it turns out to be the best kind of problem: someone
else's. I'm not sure what we're going to do now... at
least one person will be adversely affected unless I change
repeater frequencies (AGAIN - long story) or he gets a
different radio. At least now I can get these Micors off
my test
Service monitors and spectrum analyzers don't live out here
in the sticks.
BTW: Which sticks are you in? I'm in EC Indiana, with an SA that I could loan.
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At 11:33 AM 7/2/2005, Paul Kelley wrote:
Thanks Glenn.
When I first noticed the 910 kHz relationship, 455 IF was
the first thing that popped into my mind... until I
realized the Micor doesn't have a 455 kHz IF. Darn,
another good theory ruined...
Since I have 3 similar radios exhibiting exactly
I just checked all the radios I've been using to monitor
this spur in-house and all *do* have a 455 kHz IF. I will
have to check the others which may take a day or two. Let
me also see if I can find a receiver which does *not* use a
455 kHz IF to check it with.
The second best kind of problem
Obviously, this has noting to do with the subject but is a fun story.
I've got one that I'm trying to track down..
A local 2M machine, on 146.730, is having a problem we call the
horrible noise.
I've never heard anything like it, and I've had no success at recording it.
It sounds like some
At 08:03 AM 7/1/2005, Paul Kelley wrote:
On Friday 01 July 2005 08:43 am, Dave VanHorn wrote:
Any possibility that it's coming from the power supply,
and not actually the amplifier at all?
Do you get it when running from a battery?
Good thought. I tried 3 different power supplies
At any rate...I have contacted a property assesor. We'll see where
that leads.
Good luck!
If nothing else, it ought to make a good field day site :)
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I have an amp here, with the following number on: TLE1713A
AFAIK, a micor 75-100W base amp for UHF.
I need connection info, and anything that I need to do to it to
prepare it for repeater service.
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At 07:15 PM 6/30/2005, Eric Lemmon wrote:
Dave,
The TLE1713A is a 75 watt PA for 450-470 MHz. All of the information
about it is in Service Manual 6881025E50 which, unfortunately, has just
been discontinued. These manuals are frequently available on auction
sites.
Thanks. I don't see any
At 07:19 PM 6/26/2005, Jeff DePolo WN3A wrote:
What kind of repeater and ID'er are you using? And where in the transmitter
audio circuitry is the ID audio being injected?
I've dealt with several problems, mostly with commercial-band repeaters,
where a cheap CW ID'er was hooked up to a
I've just had a couple of complaints of splatter on a repeater that I now own.
We overhauled it, retuning the cans, and setting the TX and RX back
on frequency, replacing some cables that were dubious, but nothing
really major found. The cans weren't far off, but I got another 6dB
rejection
At 12:35 PM 6/25/2005, Ken Arck wrote:
Dave
Splatter infers a signal wide enough to spill over to an
adjacent channel. Indeed, your description of them hearing your xmtr
30 KHz away confirms that.
It is not an issue of duplexer tuning nor is it likely one of xmtr tuning.
I only mentioned
At 04:10 PM 6/25/2005, Dave VanHorn wrote:
At 03:15 PM 6/25/2005, Eric Lemmon wrote:
Dave,
You have done all of the right things, except you did not mention how much
deviation your IDer is causing, or how pure its signal is.
Many IDers deviate much more than is necessary. My personal preference
At 10:50 AM 6/21/2005, KB5ILY - Travis W. Burton wrote:
Hi,
In doing the coordination form for non-ham repeater there were two lines
that I am having trouble answering. Can someone explain ? The 360 361
are simply line numbers on the form, so ignore them.
360 Antenna Horizontal Beamwidth:
If you're referring to the desolate desert road in SoCal off I-15, that's
Zzyzx Road.
That's the one!
I actually exited the freeway there once. Nothing but a road down to a dry
lake bed IIRC. Pretty hot there now: 110 in nearby Baker.
When I was there, it looked like it had been that way
At 02:21 PM 6/21/2005, Neil McKie wrote:
Always terminate the un-used port in a 50 ohm load. A 20 dB pad
will work here as the return loss is 40 dB.
Termination is easy, and inexpensive.
I've just begun to build my library of attenuators.
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At 03:12 PM 6/21/2005, Bob Dengler wrote:
At 6/21/2005 12:46 PM, you wrote:
At 12:21 PM 6/21/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Always terminate the un-used port in a 50 ohm load.
---Of course but I'm a firm believe in using a pad on every port. It's the
only way to guarantee a 50 ohm load on
How do you figure what downtilt angle to order?
Presumably it relates to height and radio horizon, but I haven't
found the relationship.
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Other than the fiberglass sticks, what options are available to me in
multiband antennas?
At the outset, we will be putting up 2M and 440, and we are
contemplating a 902 system.
Of course I'd rather have one site on the tower, and one feedline if
practical, but I'm leery of excessive losses.
At 02:28 PM 6/20/2005, Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote:
At 07:34 AM 6/20/05, you wrote:
Other than the fiberglass sticks, what options are available to me in
multiband antennas?
At the outset, we will be putting up 2M and 440, and we are
contemplating a 902 system.
Of course I'd rather have one
At 03:54 PM 6/20/2005, steve wrote:
Hi
Living in the UK our repeaters are very closley monitored.
What are the rules in the US for repeaters, do the FCC tell
you what you can have.
The FCC has the laws, then there are also local repeater coordination
bodies who are (interestingly)
Any suggestions on 35amp or so power supply with battery backup for
short transitional switch over to generator power. We are on top of a
hospital on generator power when needed.
I've heard lots of stories of the astrons being RF sensitive. Kind of
amusing considering they intentionally sell
Interesting radio interface documentation, locations to tap for COR,
etc for a large number of radios.
http://www.pyramidcomm.com/data_an.html
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Anyone know how I could get a couple of 9800's programmed?
Software/interface, or someone has that capability, or ?
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Ok, anyone have PL encoder/decoder boards they would like to sell?
Com-spec or similar, with docs either hardcopy or online preferred.
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At 06:38 PM 6/17/2005, Joel Hall wrote:
Hope you'all may help on this
VHF 4 pole with it in omni config it has 6 db gain,all in one
direction it has 9 db gain.
what I need to know if it is side mounted with all dipoles one
direction what is the reduction in db at 180 degree?
Wouldn't it
At 10:10 PM 6/17/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
I need some input, not critisism or what I should do, as I know what
to do.
I've seen this in a Kenwood VHF repeater.
The cause was the VCO having drifted quite a ways from where it was
originally calibrated.
The repeater was apparently mode-hopping
As far as RF is concerned, I'm sure there are States that have rougher
terrain, but Southern WV is as bad as I've personally witnessed.
They sell both sides of the same real estate :)
My favorite exits are (so far) Stinking Creek Road, and XYZZY road.
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At 01:05 AM 6/15/2005, Eric Lemmon wrote:
Dave,
Here's the WP-678 tuning instructions:
http://www.repeater-builder.com/wacom/wp678-665-UHF-tuninginstructions.pdf
AH! It's under the covers! I didn't know if those were screws or
covers, or what.
Thanks, all done now, it only takes a few
If the jumper cables are the
correct length, the combined performance of the cavities *should* be
the sum of the
individual cavities, minus the losses in the jumpers.
That is a question, it was on 460-ish, now 440-ish.
Seems like still a relatively small change, but I don't know EXACTLY
how
I suspect the shorter wavelength of 220 is able to be reflected and
refracted inside the building much more easily than does 2 meter energy. I
bet UHF would perform even better but there are too many variables to say
for certain.
For construction crews, 440-ish wavelengths are MUCH more
Does anyone have tuning instructions for these?
The pass is easy, and it's done, but I don't see how to adjust the
notch frequency.
Thanks
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At 11:48 PM 6/14/2005, Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote:
I really apologize I'm in the middle of a bad cold and
on heavy drugs/decongestants and had a brain fart...
I was thinking 142 and typed 214 and didn't recognize it...
BTW for duplexer inter-can jumpers that require PL 259s
I use the info and
Mail order is fine but it does not help much after work if you want
to finish a project or on a weekend for the controller you just have
got to get wired up and are missing the correct coaxal power plug.
On-Line is OK too but with the likes of Mouser and Digi-Key that
have everything under
At 12:59 AM 6/11/2005, mch wrote:
Are you sure it's not just causing some odd
propagation and they are seeing a distant station?
Maybe the reverse of that. Brightening indicates less signal in analog TV.
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At 12:06 PM 6/11/2005, Eric Lemmon wrote:
Ray,
I've seen the same symptoms occur when an inexpensive multi-band ham
antenna is
used, especially when the antenna is fairly close to the repeater and
single-shielded coax feedline connects the duplexer to the antenna.
Try using a good, broadband
At 06:19 PM 6/10/2005, Joe wrote:
I've heard stories of people in the tornado areas watching an
unused TV channel in their area. Tornados supposedly generate
noise in the lower channels that you can see and identify as a tornado on TV.
Despite the skeptics, it's well documented, and
At 07:33 PM 6/10/2005, Coy Hilton wrote:
Sorry DAVE, I couldn't resist. Really, what's the technical poop.
73
ac0y
Apparently somewhat the same thing as the santa ana winds. Charged
particles, rain, debris, whatever, colliding with each other.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug98
At 08:29 PM 6/10/2005, Richard wrote:
Actually I was referring to the static on the screen, but I believe you're
right about the direction of spin in the hemispheres. So what does the
static on the TV do during a tornado event?
You get more static, but actually, what they say they are seeing
Hasn't tornado winds been documented to generate broadband RF noise
primarily in the VHF region?
Yes, and I've seen it in person. Also the other phenomena in santa
ana winds, in Costa Mesa and Anaheim CA.
At times, the static was so bad that I couldn't hear the high profile
repeaters on my
Much of what happens directly relates to the battery condition and
the charging circuit. Old tired dry batteries may not draw enough
current to pop a fuse (or trip a breaker). Astron relies on a narly
scr to crowbar the main fuse/breaker.
Sounds like a case for checking your batteries
One trick I saw done was to take a male-to-make adapter and a
female-to-female adapter and screw them together.
Put this set on the end of the each of the existing too-short
harness segments, and try the tuning. It may be enough.
If not, put another set on the other end of each cable. A bunch
Does anyone have a pointer to a low level signal source, VHF/UHF?
I don't have a service monitor, and I can't really justify one.
I occasionally need to tune up a receiver.
What I don't have, is a signal source at the 10uV and down level.
I've used HTs and attenuators, but the leakage through
At 11:54 AM 6/8/2005, skipp025 wrote:
Most Astron Supplies will easily operate at 15 volts output if you
mod the crow-bar circuit for the higher
fire/trigger voltage. If fact, they actually work better at the
higher output voltage.
Well, they end up with a bit less dissipation, due to the
At 12:41 PM 6/8/2005, Tony King, W4ZT wrote:
Dave,
A relatively easy thing you can do is to put a Mastr II exciter in a
shielded box with a BNC connector for output.
Hmm.. That would work if I had one.. It would have to be programmed
or crystalled or something, right?
Then again, I think I do
At 04:31 PM 6/8/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's talk about static! Hi everybody!
I'm experiencing high static levels in our repeater that appears to
develop ahead and during serve weather outbreaks. Other times it
seems perfectly fine.
Could be precipitation static? Wind bouncing the
Fuse the input of the supply appropriately, so that
it will blow if the output is held to maximum for 10
seconds or so. See the buss guide called Fuseology
on selecting fuses.
I'm not a fan of the above fuseology methods. I would
hope to reduce any glitch events to a much smaller
amount
At 06:51 PM 6/8/2005, Kevin Custer wrote:
Dave VanHorn wrote:
If you've not seen what happens in southern CA with the Santa Ana
winds, you'd never believe it.
AMAZING levels of noise right across the VHF spectrum.
AFAIK, not much you can do about
that.
Yes you can
http://www.repeater
At 07:25 PM 6/8/2005, TGundo 2003 wrote:
hERE IS A SILLY QUESTION:
Where would you want to mount a static buster on a 4-bay antenna? On
the top of the mast? I looked at the mounting instructions and that
is the conclusion I have come too, but I could be way off.
Seems right..
This would help
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