On the other hand Jim, the Syntor X's are a newer radio with less chance of
component
failure. The 100 watt VHF drawer units can be picked up for $10.00 at swapmeets
and if you have an eeprom burner you can program them yourself for an
investment
of $20.00 for the two radios. Even if you have a free Micor, the channel
elements would
cost more than double that price. As far as I know, performance-wise, the two
models
are equal except the Micor may require re-work of the front-end helical
resonators to
move a high band receiver down into the 2 meter range. Also, a high band Micor
transmitter may require some padding to get it down as well.
Luke didn't say whether he had base or mobiles of each type, or which frequency
range they were. These factors would affect his decision. Since he has the
Syntor's
already and is considering more than one repeater the less expensive out would
be
to go with them and make up one or two spares.
73 de Jack - N7OO
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim B.
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola repeaters
Luke wrote:
> I have obtained several Motorola Syntor X's Radios and some Motorola
> Micor's and I want to set up a couple as 2 meter repeaters but I am not
> sure wich is the best to use for this operation. I have found small
> amounts of info on both but I want more power since I have some hills
> to deal with here. Thanks, Luke.
The Micor's. Decidedly. The Syntor's will work just fine, but (1) you
need two of them to make a repeater, where the Micor is duplexable
in-cabinet, and (2) the Syntor's are more radio then you need for a
repeater, since they are programmable to 32 channels or so, where the
Micor is crystal controlled, and putting more then one or two channels
in them starts getting expensive quick.
Make the repeater out of a Micor, and program the Syntor's as user radios!
Check out Repeater-builder.com under Motorola.
--
Jim Barbour
WD8CHL
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