Sold many of them, typical with a well tuned duplexer is about 10 watts best, average 8-9 watts.
Would not waste any money trying to find a "weak" part, if the duplexer is ok, leave it alone till it quits completely, won't see any difference between 9 & 12 watts. Tracomm --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Aisen Lopez <aisendwi...@...> wrote: > --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Steve Passmore k6...@... wrote: > From: Steve Passmore k6...@... > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] RP-70U repeater not transmitting at full power > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:29 AM > You sure it's 15 watts? The service manual on repeater-builder > specifies it's a 12 watt repeater > > http://www.repeater -builder. com/standard/ standard- index.html Add in > the duplexer, cables, age, possible tuning out of it's designed 450-470 > range and you get about 8 watts. > Aisen Lopez wrote: > > > Hello, I've got a Standard RP-70U UHF repeater that is not > > transmitting at full capacity. > > The thing is supposed to have a max RX power of 15 watts. Yet, I > > plugged a power/swr meter and my dummy load, when I checked it was > > only putting out 7 watts. So I looked in the manual, found the > > adjustment points and tried to adjust for maximum power and it won't > > go over 8 to 8.5 watts of TX power. It doesn't seem to be having any > > problems with the duplexer. It just won't go over 8 watts. Could it > > be a failing TX transistor?. RX is fine and there are no other > > problems with the repeater, just the power issue. > > Any thoughts? > > > OK, yes the manual does say 12 watts. That's the operating power, but it does go up to fifteen. The freq is under the 450-470 range (it's on 464.825/469.825). It looks like I'll have to take it to the tech. to have the duplexer retuned. Thanks for your help and everybody else's help!.
