At 03:24 PM 12/29/06, you wrote: >* Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 29 09:37 -0600]: > > > Any suggestions of what kind of gear would be suitable for 10m repeater > > use? Any tips of do's and dont's for 10m? > >I helped a club resurrect a 10m repeater a decade ago. It was a pair >of MASTR Pro machines with a UHF TX strip paired with the 10m receiver >and a UHF receiver paired with the 10m transmitter. The site seperation >was about 8 miles. The UHF link used yagis and PL and the 10m was >carrier squelch as I recall with quarter wave whips. Local range >wasn't good, but we worked some interesting DX that summer. To boost >the fun factor we linked it into the UHF repeater (we had an RLC4 which >made it easy to do). > >A pair of MASTR II mobiles, one low band and the other UHF, may work >well (swap the 10m RX into the UHF and vice versa), but I suspect good >MASTR II radios may be getting tough to find. I'd suggest UHF for the >auxillary link as 2m is still plenty crowded and your link may suffer >from interference. > >Using a 10m repeater is certainly a different and fun way to work DX. > >Have fun! > >73, de Nate >>
10 meter repeaters really need to run under CTCSS - there is too much grunge to have a carrier squelch machine survive, especially when the band opens up. And the UHF point-to-point link really needs to be in the 420-425MHz band. The 440-450 band in most areas is occupied by repeaters and finding someones link channel is just too much temptation for some folks.
