Re: [Repeater-Builder] Glenayre 900 MHz T8500

[Mike Morris]

At 06:14 PM 01/31/07, you wrote:

Well, gang, I brought this puppy home today! Even has a “receiver” in the cabinet, but I’m not sure just WHAT kind of receiver it is.

There are **two** antenna connections on left side of the cabinet:
One is a 50-ohm “N” connection which I assume is the transmitter output.
The other appears to be a 75 ohm “F” connection.  Ideas???

I have photos available upon request…  This thing appears to be complete.

I’m meeting another ham tomorrow who has a manual set for it – less the controller manual. So I’ll be looking for one of them….

Here’s the “pedigree” on the station:
TX Model:  GL-T8500
RX Model:  GL-S2164
Control Package:  GL-C2000S
Current TX freq:  931.1875
PA Serial #: 9521065 E 10323
Power Out: 100 to 250 Watts

The "F" connector is probably for the cable from the LNA on a satellite
dish antenna. Many paging stations are controlled via a GPS-locked
transmitter synthesizer (i.e. right on channel, to the cycle, which makes
simulcasting easier), and they get the digital data to broadcast from a
data channel on a satellite transponder.

Yours may or may not have the high-stability oscillator.

In fact, I know where there is an abandoned 3 foot Channel Master
dish and LNA...

Mike WA6ILQ