[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question for the gurus: I am tuning up and donating an E.F. Johnson > CR1100 repeater to the local Ham Club. They have asked me to install > a talking, chirping, beeping type repeater controller (which they > have offered to buy). I work with basic "repeater, one each" type > stuff, so I have no idea where to start. I welcome any opinions of a > repeater controller that meets the following somewhat carefully > thought out criteria: > > 1. Reasonably affordable. (a couple hundred bucks or so) > > 2. It has to talk, beep and chirp. > > 3. It has to have a phone patch. > > 4. Well supported. > > 5. Reliable. > > 6. Not require re-engineering the radio. (Translation: easy > installation) > > Feel free to add to this list.
There are a bunch of good controllers out there. My recommendation is either the Arcom RC-210, as mentioned, or the S-Com 7330, which should be available very soon. Arcom also has an RC-810 coming, but it may be a bit higher priced then what it sounds like you/they want to spend. -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
