[Repeater-Builder] Re: sniper VCO's (was: Alinco Ham Repeater??????)

2006-02-21 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
A friend of mine did a test with a DR-1200 in the hey-day of packet and checked the radio on a storage o-scope and discovered that the radio was up at full power long before it was on frequency. :-/ That problem is not unique to Alinco. We used Kenwood 531's for 1200 MHz packet links, and

[Repeater-Builder] Re: 1.2 gHZ range

2007-03-20 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Anyone help me I have a 1.2 GHz repeater, but no service monitor or signal generator for these frequencies. My service monitor, a Singer-Gertsch only goes up to 499.995 Mhz. I have tried using the third harmonic in the 420-427 range but either the service monitor is well filtered, or the

[Repeater-Builder] Re: DCS decoder software

2007-06-01 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
A real handy box that I've not seen and I wish someone would sell is something that you could feed discriminator audio to and display the currently heard DTMF string, DPL or tone PL. An enhancement to the DPL / tone PL display function would be a storage feature so I could park it and a

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 23cm repeaters

2007-06-29 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Anyone have any good recommendations for 23cm repeaters besides D-Star? I've read about the Icom RP-1200 and using two TM-541s. Are there other options that are as good or better? The RBTIP pages have a lot of info on this topic. See

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 4 meters

2007-07-29 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
On 29 Jul 2007 10:39:32 - Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com wrote: I was just wondering if anyone had heard any actions to get amateurs access to 4 meters (like European hams) once analog television goes dark? There's only a limited set of European hams who have access to 4 meters.

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Tone Board Wanted

2007-09-18 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Looking for a ComSpec Encoder/Decoder 32 tone. The TS-32 has been out of production for many years now. It's successor, TS-64, is available from many sources (even companies like HRO carry them). It is smaller, less current, and has more functionality. (I've reverse-engineerd both - for my

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Yaesu FT-817 as remote base radio?

2008-02-18 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Hi All, has anyone done this? That is, used a Yaesu FT-817 5w rig as a remote base radio on your repeater? Any reason why/why not? Just curious, thanks. My FT817 shows signs of overload when it's connected to my external (omni-) antenna, I'm about two miles away from the repeater site,

[Repeater-Builder] Re: OT - Hard drive train wrecks that are about to happen...

2009-01-28 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Nothing like discovering that your main corporate server hard drive is a time bomb waiting to detonate. Or the drive in your TV station production / automation system, your desktop PC, or even in that external USB or firewire box that has all your family photos and the 100gb of MP3s...

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeater Kerchunk

2009-03-16 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
We have some on our repeater frequency, that just like to kerchunk the repeater to hear it come back or ID. Is there any way we can eliminate this annoying situation? I suspect that we may have an unlicensed individual with a 2meter radio. This actually isn't technology, it's psychology.

[Repeater-Builder] Question on German repeaters

2009-04-16 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
In the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, CTCSS tones are assigned per geographical area. For example, in the South of the Netherlands, (where my machines are located), CTCSS tone is standardized to 71.9 Hz. My question: What mechanism do repeaters in Germany use? Is there a geographical

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Cooling Fans, which brand?

2010-04-13 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Anyone have a brand they recomend for a no noise, reliable fan. I didnt know whether to go with brushless,ball bearing,AC, or DC etc. Also should the power leads be sheilded and have a separate supply if DC.. Any filters recomended also.. This is my first repeater and am now into the

[Repeater-Builder] Re: license-free radios 1272619009.275.56317...@yahoogroups.com

2010-05-01 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
While this one is not a huge problem, it happens too. Visitors come to Las Vegas from a lot of foreign countries. People in the UK have whats called PMR radios. It's their FRS service. The radios are all simplex, 8 channels on 6.25Khz splinter channels starting at 446.000 Yep! if you scan

[Repeater-Builder] Re: CTCSS Encoder/Decoder

2010-05-07 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
We have been experimenting with building CTCSS Units using the 567 Tone Chip and good components, i.e. Caps, multi turn pots etc. The stability is not good in my opinion. For encoding, there's a million PIC-based solutions on the net. I designed my own, using a different PIC (12HV615) to

[Repeater-Builder] Re: CTCSS Encoder/Decoder

2010-05-08 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
For encoding, there's a million PIC-based solutions on the net. I designed my own, using a different PIC (12HV615) to reduce extra components to minimal: it has a built-in voltage stabilizer (no 78L05 needed, just a resisitor), and using bitstream D/A so no external D/A network neccessary.

[Repeater-Builder] Re: 1296 filter

2010-07-01 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
On 1 Jul 2010 02:58:24 - Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com wrote: I'm searching a valid project of 1296MHz cavity filter. Schematic, images are appreciated. I would use it on 1296 fm repeater and atv repeater 1240/1290. Could be interesting a project of cavity filter with unique antenna

[Repeater-Builder] Re: wouxun

2010-08-31 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Also saw a posting on e-ham that indicated only -30 dBc on harmonic spurious for the UHF side (I assume that's 2nd harmonic). I have an early KG-UVD1P (short DTMF burst) and an KG-UVD2D and can confirm this is not the case on neither radio, I measured -60dBc which makes them legal here. 73,

[Repeater-Builder] Re: wouxun

2010-09-05 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
Since you have both, can you shed some light on the differences between the KG-UVD1P KG-UVD2D? I have been on contact with Ed Griffin from wouxun.us. He actually does respond to email questions. When I asked him something similar, he explained: First there was the KG-UVD1, in which 1750 Hz

[Repeater-Builder] RC100 expert sought

2010-10-12 Thread Geert Jan de Groot
I'm looking for a RC100 expert: a good friend is helping a local group of handicapped scouts (wheelchair kids, 12-18 years old) and wants to use his repeater and IRLP for the upcoming JOTA next weekend. Unfortunately, the RC100 controller lost it's configuration. The controller has 2 ports, one