we have had good luck with them on 6.25 digital and you?
----- Original Message -----
From: skipp025
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 50 Watt Repeater (Shameless Kenwood Dealer
Plug)
> OK let me give you another dealer input
> Yes we are a Kenwood and also an Icom dealer.
> From our own use we for our in house systems
> use both brands of repeaters.
> If I was going to do a 2 meter today I would
> use the ICOM FR-5000 the new 50 watt unit.
A Government Customer bought some of the newer
generation Icom Repeaters from "another dealer"
for a pretty good size LTR Trunking System.
I was asked by the Trunking Controller Mfgr (CSI)
to help trouble-shoot an on-going drop out problem,
which was traced back to the discriminator output
of the Icom Receiver. The receiver would chop/slice
sections of the recovered discriminator signal
well within the normal expected bandwidth.
The customer ended up replacing those receiver
models with different equipment. And they/we
found the problem with more than one Icom Repeater
Receiver Model.
I would suggest new buyers of what I call the
newer low tier/cost Icom Repeaters have a look at
the receiver discriminator output with a service
monitor (scope) so you aren't fighting a non uniform
discriminator output problem... not so easily fixed.
Icom like all the others makes some pretty decent
gear... but some of the newer lower tier repeaters
have that known issue, which I feel is pretty darn
important to know about when starting out.
cheers,
skipp
skipp025 at yahoo.com
