Ken Arck and dcflux and others, Thanks for the info.
John Transue At 11:12 AM 10/15/2008, John Transue wrote: I see several Vertex Standard VXR-7000 repeaters and one or two Kenwood TKR-851 repeaters for sale on eBay. Are these good repeaters for a ham repeater? Do they have known weaknesses or defects? <----Obviously as a Kenwood Dealer, we're a bit biased but I can tell you that we have literally HUNDREDS of Kenwood TKR series repeaters out there without a single reported failure. Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ President and CTO - Arcom Communications Makers of repeater controllers and accessories. http://www.arcomcon <http://www.arcomcontrollers.com/> trollers.com/ Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and we offer complete repeater packages! AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 http://www.irlp. <http://www.irlp.net/> net "We don't just make 'em. We use 'em!" >From dcflux: The commercial split 450 - 480MHz VXR-7000U does work into the ham bands, however the sensitivity leaves something to be desired, about -116dB for 12 dB SINAD. This could be remedied by .
