It's very disappointing to me reading most of the replies to Kevin's request for help repairing his Spectrum Repeater. Most of you would rather fire off wise cracks about Spectrum equipment than help him out.
While Spectrum seems to be very corneous rectum about customer service, their products do work for the most part, when properly set up and cared for. It's not rocket science to research and improve even the most basic circuits. Most of you appear to have never seen a VHF Engineering Receiver, early repeater boards from 60's and 70's. This would include the famous Clegg 220 repeater made from a split radio. Early repeater layouts are where many of us "cut our teeth" and learned how to make these less than perfect circuits perform as best possible. I've got quite a bit of Spectrum equipment; their more recent receivers are pretty nice. Their transmitters are a mixed bag, but every one I have seems to work as expected for what each circuit is. So Kevin, first off… I probably have the manual for the unit you have, would be willing to work with you off the list to keep the "know it all's" from laughing too hard. The temperature problem you report is not that uncommon from the type of layout installed in your unit, not specific to the Spectrum Brand. The early 90's unit I have similar to yours has never moved more than 300 Hz since I bought it. There's probably no reason your unit can't be made to operate well. Cheers skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
