On my Motorola repeater it is the tx oscilator, to get rid of the
problem I turned on PL on the TX and my HT, when it isn't repeating it
doesn't generate PL so it is muted.
Thats the only fix I know of - Rob
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Why, there are some standard RP-70 U Uhf repeaters already on GMRS on
Ebay for around $75, just need crystals or maybe you can find on on a
freq that you can get licensed in your area. They are only 10 watts but
with the right site or an amp they would work fine. I used one for years
with no
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:38 PM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Using Alinco DR-605 Dual Band Mobiles
for Repeater
Why, there are some standard RP-70 U Uhf repeaters already on GMRS on
Ebay
A long time ago I used a voice/fax modem to decode DTMF on a PC, it was
tricky trying to get it in the right mode but once I did the digits just
came in the com port!
Rob
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Ok since we are talking about service monitors I have a question that has been
nagging me since I recieved mine. Which for those of you that remember is
working great, is a D model and was calibrated just before I got it.
When I am in spectrum analyzer mode with duplex gen on and offset set to
I am not sure of the repeaters, but if you want some fun listening when
you are there bring along a UHF HT.
Turns out that the Euoropean FRS Radios use 446.000 as one of the main
channels and it is fun listening to them.
I stayed in a hotel on the 21st floor just outside of the park and you
Thats not a bad idea, I was getting tired of the weapon approach, I started to
think this was a weapon list.
Hook your alarm to an input on the repeater and it could alert you also if
someone tampered with it.
Rob - KS4EC
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Thats not a bad idea, I was getting tired of the weapon approach, I started
You mentioned that this link would be used by the skywarn guys. That could be
a very important link some day. You may want to look for a used Motorola, GE,
or midland. You can get them cheap. I bought a GP300 at the last free flea for
$30, said it had bad rx but found someone had put a M120
Have you looked into the arcom controllers, they have remote base radio
control. I use one with my yaesu 857 and it works great. All modes. All bands.
That was until my receiver died
Rob. KS4EC
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Your solution may be easier than you think. By the time you get a generator,
tank, controller of some sort, setup, fuel charges, and gen maintenance, not to
mention going up the hill in the winter a few times to thaw the gen... $5000
one time then small monthly electric bill starts to sound
Interesting idea, Seems like you could put both repeaters on the same
freq, as your current analog repeater, you shouldn't need another pair
just for DStar.
Not knowing alot about Dstar, it seems that the problem you could run
into is if the analog repeater where in use, the Dstar users wouldn't
depending on gas prices, you could get close to that in gas
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The repeaterbuilder website has a old QST article on building a set of 2 meter
duplexers.
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From: Alexandre Souza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Great review. Sounds like a great time. Wish I had gone. I had heard crowds
where good. Maybe better than last year, comments?
What are vhf MSF 5000's going for? I may need one if I can't keep my midland
repeater going!
Rob. KS4EC
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If I forward this will it help me have better luck with my midland repeaters. I
could really use it right about now!!
Otherwise I am not sure why this was sent to the list except by mistake
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Is there an easy way to simulate a weather alert for testing. I was thinking
of recording one and playing it through my service monitor but there must be
one recorded somewhere
Any ideas
Rob. KS4EC
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Yes the cat 200 and probably others in the series can connect to a WX station
and do all kinds of reporting. They can be put at the site as the main
repeater controller or connected to a radio and be operated remotely
Rob
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do is call the local NWS office and request they
originate a required weekly test.
Alerts are time stamped and there is some debate over how old a message is
before it is considered expired.
On 5/28/08, Robert Pease [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to simulate a weather alert
CONCEPTS
Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL
No tone, all are welcome.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Robert Pease wrote:
I am using a RS model now with vox, it works great and mutes at
the
end
of message signal. I have the audio coming in an aux port and
the
vox
triggering an alarm
the receivers since some people don't want
the weekly test going off.
Randy
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Is there an easy way to simulate a weather alert for testing. I was
thinking of recording one and playing it through my service monitor
If you don't find anyone else I may know someone in cocoa beach. Also check
out CAR-COM communications in west palm beach. He is a comercial shop but does
commercial stuff for hams at half price.
Rob. KS4EC
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From: k4abb
They where great repeater controllers, I had an Azden PCS-2000 as a
reciever for my first repeater. Had the signal strength lights tied to
the inputs of the VIC-20 and changed the beep depending on signal
strength, kinda KEWL at the time. I wish there was a controller that did
that now -
Thanks
The key there was to have it change the courtesy beep based on signal. 1 short
beep for weak to 5 quick ones for strong. I have a 210 and understand how to
program the meter faces but I am not sure if it will run the macros quick
enough during the rx signal to change the beep. Also I don't
You have to write it. It programs in basic. Just don't lose power or you will
be reentering it
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Set the tail time to 0. They are seeing each others tails. You could set the
repeaters connecting to port 1 and 2 to PL on COR then set the half duplex
link radios to pl decode.
Rob. KS4EC
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From: tgundo2003 [mailto:[EMAIL
I use really small needle nose in the slots to romove most of those nuts on HT's
Rob ks4ec
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Not sure why everyone is having such a hard time understanding the problem
here, while unusual, for the red to go dead, it does happen. As was originally
stated he thought lightning may have kicked it. So red is dead and white is
light (on). So even though a relay (3 pole) sounds like the
Try the Arrcom RC-210 it has 8 I/O ports and can be expanded to 64 at least
and 8 A/D inputs. You can set Meter Faces to whatever and calibrate them for
your input range
Rob. KS4EC
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From: Jim Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not sure about the band plan on 220 but is it possibla thet someone put up a
repeater with a reverse split. What about turning off the tx pl and turning on
the rx pl.
Does is happen when someone is talking on it or just during no rx.
Maybe you could record it to an mp3 and post it, sometimes
I have an arcom rc-210 and found that the cat cable I had worked fine on a pc
but not on my controller. It turned out to be the circuit in the cable that
converted levels for the yaesu radio took power off of the serial port on the
pc. (cts or dtr I can't remember) anyway I took a 9v wall wart
You really should do you research better before you make statements about the
abilities of controllers. As I am sure others will tell you. I have an Arcom
RC-210 on a 440 repeater linked to a local 2m machine. Through this system I
offer.
Wx alert as well as playback of alerts
Frequency agile
. But tell
me what HF radio that you have with memories that are accessed by the
RC-210.maybe we'll learn something here.
-Mike
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This link may be better info
http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/tek/475
Rob - KS4EC
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Not to start a reg debate but I believe the fcc only allows any and all means
of communication when there is an imminent threat to life or property AND there
is no other means of communications available.
For the event mentioned this would not be the case
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] Portable Temporary Repeater
At 10:16 9/30/2008, Robert Pease wrote:
Not to start a reg debate but I believe the fcc only allows any and
all means of communication when there is an imminent threat to life
or property
Such as a forest fire, earthquake recovery, flood coming or just been
here, etc
Ok since we made it back to the original question. Here are my thoughts on it.
1st. Ham rigs are a bad choice for any type of repeater, I would look hard for
used commercial rigs, especially if you want to transmit from the recieve site.
You can find some really cheap commercial gear and some
The arcom rad wil only help completely dtmf when connected to the rc210
controller the rad is just a delay. The dtmf decoders are on the controller
board.
Rob
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Do you still have thiss. Would you consider $100 shipped to 33414
Rob. Ks4ec
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Sorry that was supposed to go direct
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Many companies sell a 24db gain antenna for 2.4 ghz. I bought several from a
florida company about 5 years ago for $75 each. They worked great and we never
had a noise problem with the vhf or uhf repeaters at the site, although we left
all of the transmitters on the ground and ran coax to the
Sorry forgot we used light weight wire mesh antennas. If I remember right they
where 2 foot wire mesh dishes. Only a couple of pounds
Rob
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I use an older raduo shack one with my arcom rc-210. It works great, unlike
the midlands, it mutes the rx when it recieves the end of message data burst.
I probed around and found the line that mutes the audio when not active and ran
that to an alarm/logic input on the 210. Then ran audio in
What can people tell me about these
Any good on 2 meters. What's a good price for one?
Thanks in advance
Rob. KS4EC
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Since 1974, the award-winning Alpert JFCS has helped families of all faiths
throughout most of Palm Beach County, FL, via counseling,
I do this with a rat shack wx radio and it works flawlessly.. I use an aux
input on my 210 for audio straight from the volume pot and find the mute line
in the radio to run the alarm port. The advantage with this setup and
specifically the radio shack model radio is that it takes care of the
I saw somewhere someone had taken old phones, desk and mobile and put cell
phone guts in them with a pic processor to decode the rotary dial and was
selling them. On the outside they looked like the real thing!
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Try 12v in the pin next to ign sense I believe it is labled switched v+. If
that powers the radio on then ther is a problem in the power switching circuit.
Had one like that. When you sent power to the switched v+ line the front panel
power switch would no longer turn the radio off, but who
Mike
Try the midland 520's low band radios with a vhf or uhf ht built in for cross
band. Maybe 2 of them,1 on each band split then different xband freqs. Put the
red cross radio in scan and away you go. I believe you can program different
xband freqs to match the different low band chans so
Interesting thing about part 97. It is written differently than any other part
of the rules. In most of the rules they tell you what you can do and if it
isn't specifically spelled out then you can't do it.
In part 97 it is the other way around. For the most part they tell you what you
can't
I believe some of the newer mic's don't have the tone encoder in the mic
and have it in the radio, I have what I thought was a newer TT mic on my
GTX, but no tones. I believe the MSC2000 is one like that.
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I have a quantar repeater tied to a cat 300. Everything works fine and you can
use analog with the cat control or p25 with the moto controller. The question
is, is there a simple way to turn off p25 if needed remotely? A repeat inhibit
line somewhere? I have full control of the analog side
When did this list become a law list what does any of this have to do with
repeater building. I thought this list was for tech discussions. How the list
members use the tech info is their problem.
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All Hail GIMP
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Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:39 PM
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Subject: [Repeater-Builder] manual and service manual scanning (digitize
to PDF)
It looks like it EXCLUDES Amber alerts because they are meant for public
broadcast.
Provides that this provision does not apply to the public safety radio
communication transmitted by any system station for the use of the general
public, including Amber Alerts and other communications
I rum spectras on V/U/900 and love em. I just bought one for P25. As for
programming, once you get a codeplug set for your area and the areas you travel
to it is easy to use. The zone features are nice. 1 or 2 zones per area and
off you go. I also run a regular dual band ham radio for the
Look around on ebay or on some of the yahoo groups. I have seen midland
commercial radios for as low as $10. I sold a ton for $35 about a year ago.
And most people can program them for you also. They are much easier to get
signals into and out of. Save the 2200 for a mobile as standard ham
Can someone tell me where the PayPal complaint list is...
I have a repeater builder question!
J
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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
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Thanks - KS4EC - Rob
Robert Pease
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number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Think before you print!
Since 1974, the award-winning Alpert JFCS has helped families of all faiths
be on Repeater Builder TIP pages or they
can be found in most of the MSF service manuals. Good luck, Tom DGN
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I was given an MSF-5000 for VHF, without the power supply or the
PA
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