Might have to go that way, with the uncordinated pair first. The cordinator in my area says they try to avoid "paper repeaters" and suggest I get equipment up and running first. ;-) But they did say that I should be able to get one for my area.
Lots of good information in this thread. --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "Bob McCormick W1QA" <ya...@...> wrote: > > > How much trouble is there in tuning a duplexer? > > I'm not equipped, at present, with a lot of test equipment. > > If you purchase a new duplexer from a manufacturer > such as TX-RX you can provide them with the transmit > and receive frequencies and they will tune it up for > you. > > If you can't get a coordinated frequency before you > receive the duplexer - you could see if they would > be willing to ship it to you pre-tuned on an > uncoordinated test pair (ask your local spectrum > management group what to use - most have one or more > repeater pairs for testing, etc.) ... and see if you > can send it back to be re-tuned for your final frequencies > when you receive them. > > I've sent equipment back to TX-RX ... we upgraded a > 23cm duplexer to be a tri-plexer (to support D-STAR > digital voice and high speed data) and they were > really good about retuning, new phasing lines, etc. > > Bob W1QA >
