At 08:42 PM 05/30/07, you wrote: >I have a portable UHF repeater being put together and I'd like to >include either a simplex or duplex VHF system to link in/out to existing >VHF repeaters or VHF simplex users. The UHF side would be the local >"master" repeater with the duplexer. I have that already. I have not >picked a controller yet. What would work well on this and also draw as >little current at 12vdc as possible? DTMF control would be fine. > >Thanks! >Ronny K4RJJ
Any of the two port (or more) controllers should do that. The Scom 7K (two ports plus a control receiver), the ICS Linker II, any of the several NHRC ones, some of the Link RLC line, and more. Most have a command that shuts off the front panel LEDs to conserve current. In your shoes I'd wait a few months - Scom just announced their three-port controller (the 7330) as being in beta test and I think that as soon as it's available for ordering/purchase there will be some 7Ks available ... If you can't wait, I'd look at the NHRC comparison matrix at <http://www.nhrc.net/comparison.php> and take a close look at the NHRC 4 and 5. The 4 is available as a $40 partial kit. However it does not offer much in the way of remote control of a remote base radio. On the other hand, Arcom has a 3-port controller kit (the RC210) that DOES have the ability to control a frequency agile remote base radio. On the other end of the cost spectrum a local ham has an NHRC-10 on a UHF repeater controlling a Icom 706 HF/VHF radio giving him a frequency agile remote base that covers 160m through 2m. It's located at an FM broadcast station site and he uses several sets of the tower guy wires as inverted V antennas... the higher the guy wire level on the tower the longer the guy wires... Mike WA6ILQ
