Guys,
I talk to Collin at least a couple of times a week on our local repeaters. In this case, he's probably going to have a total horizontal separation of perhaps a quarter-mile. I think his is a fairly unusual case, but I'm guessing that gain and beamwidth are pretty much moot for his application. He told me today that he'll probably be running DCS instead of CTCSS and given the area he's in (out in the sticks) I'd bet he's the ONLY guy running DCS. I'm anxious for him to get everything up and running because his system will be a fairly short distance from one of the repeaters I maintain and it may enable us to do some linking and provide a fairly large footprint if we ever need wide-area coverage for disaster communications. I was involved with a split-site system in the mid to late-seventies, but we linked via a leased phone line. The system worked great, but we always had that 'phone-line hum'. 73, Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Schafer Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:41 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Please help with split site The main reason higher gain antennas on a link are desirable is to narrow the beam width so that you don't pick up as much or transmit as much interference to/from undesired stations. Horizontal polarization as mentioned also helps reduce the interference problems. 73 Gary K4FMX _____ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:45 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Please help with split site Mmmm. I was told (on this group) that my 8-elements was too much. Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Reynolds Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:04 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Please help with split site Add to all of the other good info here, make your link antennas Horizantal polarization with atleast 10 elements on each. Steve W4CNG
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