Neil,
Not to butt in here but most of us guys dont have a dump truck to haul around an old MOCOM 70 and to boot where the heck are you going to get repair parts for it as well. Oh i know Neil's warehouse ha ha.
Mike K7PFJ
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> Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote:
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> > > I know some guys that use GE Phoenix SX radios for
> > >linking.
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> > Why waste a broadband radio for one channel?
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> I know a person who might be using a Kenwood TK805 for
> an Echolink station. Probably a waste but the radio is
> conveniently handy for this application.
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> If the plan works well, we might rock up an old Mocom-70,
> Micor, Mastr II or Mitrek Super Consolette Station on UHF
> for this use. Just depends on what I trip over first in
> the garage.
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> > > Would they be good for receiving on VHF and then linking
> > >back to the main site to the voter on UHF?
> >
> > I'd use a receiver like a Mastr-II, a Micor or a SpectraTac.
> > As to the transmitter, your choices depend upon the power
> > level you need (which can be greatly reduced if you put a
> > beam at the outlying receive site). I've seen a lot of link
> > transmitters that are not much more than the exciter
> > feeding a cavity filter feeding the beam antenna - maybe
> > 200mw into the antenna. It does not take much power to
> > go from a high site to another high site when they are
> > line-of-sight...
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> For a while, we had a 1 1/2 watt 445 MHz link on a 115 mile
> path.
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> Neil - WA6KLA
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