Re: 50 Watt Repeater (Shameless Kenwood Dealer Plug) My turn,
As an Authorized Kenwood Sales and Full Service Dealer with easily more than 50 Kenwood Version 2 TKR-750 & TKR-850 Repeaters going full tilt (full rated output power) 24/7 ... I've never ever had to repair one. In fact, the only Kenwood TKR-850 Repeater we've ever had to really fix was sent in from out of state, struck by lightning... and that fix was relatively easy (all things considered). We do carefully pop the access cover off to properly set-up the Receiver Pre-Selector up using a very specialized RF Cable few other Dealers have/use (yeah, we sell them). But after a proper Dealer Setup, they live quite happily at their max rated power even if not rated on paper as such. And of course we also throw out the same "we can't officially" recommend it" disclaimer. And... We still service the older TKR-720 and TKR-820 Repeaters. I doubt most people would be able over-heat and kill the PA in a New Kenwood TKR-750 or TKR-850 repeater (with free air movement around the exhaust fan opening)... even if they tried (and I've seen a few examples where people seem to have with out luck, tried to kill a repeater). cheers, skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com www.radiowrench.com Authorized Kenwood & Pyramid Sales and Service (Dealer) (707) 678-4187 (707) 446-3419 cell > <k7...@...> wrote: > Hi Ken and Norm, > On my UHF LTR system I have several home channels > in the 5 ch system that are almost continuous transmit > during the date time. I have the TKR850's running at > 35wt and they have survived for two years so far with > no ill affects. > > At 08:36 AM 12/11/2009, NORM KNAPP wrote: > > Agreed, but here we have many '750's running at > > 50watts and have had no issues. Of course, they > are not transmitting 24/7. > <----As an Authorized Kenwood Dealer, we have "a ton" > of TKR's that we sold into amateur service, running either > 40 (UHF) or 50 (VHF) watts with no ill effects. Sure, > they're not 24/7 keydown but since the redesigned PA, > we simply don't see failures. And while we can't > "officially" recommend it, we've never seen a problem > from doing so. > Ken
