Hah, lets not go down that rat hole again. ;) I wasn't referring to the power handling capability of the mobile duplexers, as I was more trying to make the point of how broad their pass is.
With an easily overloaded RX (think a mobile masquerading as a repeater receiver... ala D-STAR and others), in a typical high RF repeater site, a mobile duplexer is inviting trouble. I have a bunch of old Harris radios, with said mobile duplexers built in, and they work great in our high-speed packet backbone, with links using between 5 and 30W. BUT, they also have a manually tuned pre-selector on the front end to keep all the "junk" out. Cheers! Lee --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Charles Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lee: > > Sorry, but just because I'm feeling contrary today I have to ask. Didn't > we just have a discussion about how you don't need to run much power for > a repeater? Most of the mobile duplexers are fine for 25-50 Watts. I > have one repeater that runs 15 W out with about 7 at the antenna and it > covers out to some 60 miles for mobiles. It's a real repeater--I think. > > Chuck - N8DNX >
