Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Low Band Antenna for both 6 10 meters.

2010-08-21 Thread men...@pa.net
The Motorola document is based on the use of the Spectrun base loaded antennas sold by Mother. The Spectrum antenna is a series coil arrangement, not a shunt fed or tapped coil; this is very important! The chart works quite well for the Spectrum antennas and will probably work for any

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Intermod Calculation

2010-08-21 Thread men...@pa.net
Tim, Digital paging (mostly POCSAG coding these days) is FSK and will easily occupy 15KHz of bandwidth. On a Service Monitor deviation screen you will see a square wave pattern that looks like it is overdeviated unless you are very close to the transmitter in question. Read on and you

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Intermod Calculation

2010-08-21 Thread men...@pa.net
. The interference is pretty strong. It competes with my base station on low power. I'm 25 miles from the repeater. -- Tim :wq On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:25 AM, men...@pa.net wrote: Tim, Digital paging (mostly POCSAG coding these days) is FSK and will easily occupy 15KHz of bandwidth

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Measuring duplexer insertion loss

2010-08-06 Thread men...@pa.net
Martin, The other 40dB is hiding in the lower regions of the sweep. I'll try to describe what to do from memory but I may be a bit off target. The bottom of the sweep should look a bit wide and ragged, not a smooth line. Drop the Reference level down to -40 or -50. You should now see the bottom

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Mastr II Mobile Repeater?

2010-08-03 Thread men...@pa.net
Most likely an old RCC mobile phone. Full duplex mobile, check for multiple channel elements crystalled in the 454/459 area. Milt N3LTQ Quoting La Rue Communications laruec...@gmail.com: Gentlemen (And Ladies) I have a MASTR II Exec mobile here, I think its a UHF Repeater. I want to

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT- Dispatcher injured by lightning strike

2010-08-01 Thread men...@pa.net
When the expert label starts to get thrown around too much I like to quote one of my math teachers in junior high school whose definition of expert is worth remembering to deflate any over sized egos. Ex is a has been and a Spurt is a drop under pressure Milt N3LTQ Quoting Doug Hutchison

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeater receiver testing

2010-07-25 Thread men...@pa.net
Been following this thread for a while, some thoughts in random order: If I remember correctly you said that you are using the 1 5/8 heliax notches as your duplexer. If I also remember correctly others have reported problems of many sorts with these homebrew devices. While not an easy thing

Re: [Repeater-Builder] RE: [GE Mastr II] Help ID 19C321936G2

2010-07-24 Thread men...@pa.net
Taking a bit of a guess, since the board appears to be some sort of encoder or decoder for audio,I would suspect that it could be used as a single tone burst encoder or decoder. The CG module position would have provisions for PTT and audio out as well as disc. audio in and squelch

Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE

2010-07-04 Thread men...@pa.net
According to a quick Google search it shows up as a MastrII 50 watt 36-42 MHz PA and heat sink assembly. Quoting Bill Isom bil.i...@yahoo.com: Good morning and Happy Independence Day. I have a VHF Low band continuous duty amp that I would be willing to trade.  I don't know much about

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT Looking for service manual Kenwood TM-733A

2010-05-20 Thread men...@pa.net
TM-733 = VHF/UHF amateur mobile Quoting La Rue Communications laruec...@gmail.com: We have a TON of service manuals available for sale. One question though, is that a typo on the model? I thought all Kenwood product lines were TK-XXX. John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora

Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT Looking for service manual Kenwood TM-733A

2010-05-20 Thread men...@pa.net
Thank you Mike, that is one place I did not think to look. Milt Quoting Mike Morris wa6i...@verizon.net: At 08:10 AM 05/20/10, you wrote: Looking for service manual for the TM-733A radio in paper(preferred)or electronic format. B51-8264-00 original or B51-8264-10 revised Document is

Re: [Repeater-Builder] RE: 50 Watt Repeater

2009-12-12 Thread men...@pa.net
Paul, It depends on what portables you are using with the Kenwood repeater. Some, but not all of the newer CPS programmed equipment have a setting checkbox marked something like Use non-standard PL decode which can be set on a per channel basis. With this feature enabled the squelch

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: feeding two 120 degree sector antennas

2009-10-10 Thread men...@pa.net
If i read your post correctly, you are trying to achieve omni coverage and downtilt while maintaining a high level of antenna gain. I think that you will only achieve what you want by using electrical downtilting in the antenna. Otherwise you are going to have to trade off something. I

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: coax cable

2009-09-13 Thread men...@pa.net
Most of them ended up on Bird wattmeters. Milt N3LTQ Quoting Jeff DePolo j...@broadsci.com: Oh, by the way, forgot to mention, Phelps-Dodge/Celwave used to ship a RG8 jumper with Stationmasters. Some time in the fairly recent past they stopped doing that. I guess they figured everyone

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: De-sense question

2009-09-07 Thread men...@pa.net
In your initial post ypu mentioned that you had to use pliers to tighten the connectors on both ends. 2 possibilities: 1) You used the wrong connectors. Yes I have seen this done before. A PL259 screwed onto a N-Female. Contact made but poor range on a simplex system; looked OK on