Lee, The Zetron "19B Simplexor" is used in many rural areas for exactly that purpose. It was offered in several versions to meet specific requirements. One version, which was intended for volunteer fire departments, would accept a page and then repeat it several times (which were programmable) so that the volunteer responders had several opportunities to receive and understand the message. The unit I have just repeats the message once.
The 19B Simplexor has excellent audio quality, and it interfaces easily to almost any make and model of commercial mobile radio. I was very surprised to learn that Zetron stopped making it. Perhaps, if there is sufficient demand, they might put it back into production. 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Q Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:04 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] New Repeater Setup Many FD's use a simplex repeater to extend coverage for dispatch and they work quite well in hilly Erie county. Another post a while back mentioned the brand name of the apparent best one to use, maybe they will chime in. They work by decoding a tone sequence from dispatch, recording the next transmission and then repeat it back...73,Lee,N3APP Jason Crambo wrote: > Hello all and happy holidays. > I am with the Jefferson Twp Ambulance out of Lackawanna County, > Pennsylvania. We are located in a rural area and are looking for an > alternative to providing all of our members with mobile radios. An > idea I had was to create a repeater on our private frequency that we > use on each call. I do not know the first thing about repeaters and I > was wondering if someone can help me out on if this is something we > can do ourselves and if so what do we need, the process, cost we are > looking at, etc. etc. Any help would be appreciated. Happy Holidays. 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/
