At 11:24 AM 04/30/07, you wrote: >Who is making the best repeater these days? Motorola or MA/Com formaly GE? >-- >-Tim
That's a flamewar baiting question !!!!! on the same level with politics, religion and sex... You'll find proponents of every brand out there... from Aerotron to the little M (Midland) to Yaesu. And then you will have the totally unexpected answer fly past you... Locally, we have one guy who feels that if it doesn't glow in the dark it's not a real repeater. He's still running GE Progress line on 220 and 440... and it's funny, he goes to the radio site for maintenance trips maybe 1/4 as often as the guys that run Mastr IIs or Micors. And the repeaters don't key up from grunge and intermod as often. When asked, he comments that maybe its because the 3rd order intercept point of a RF stage that has 150v on the plate is higher than one that has 10v on the collector.... and he loves to "pull the chain" of the newbies that have never seen a tube other than the face of a CRT with answers like "you need to adjust the grid bias, then dip the plate" when asked questions about why his systems work so well. Mike WA6ILQ
