Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need a duplexer

2005-04-12 Thread DCFluX
Doing some research I have found that each interconnecting jumper must be an electrical 1/4 wave or performance suffers. The jumpers attribute 6.5dB each to the isolation of the duplexer. I havn't gotten around to replacing the RG-214 jumpers on my set of 2M cavitys but it may help my performan

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need a duplexer

2005-04-12 Thread Ken Arck
At 01:35 AM 4/13/2005 -, you wrote: > >I am not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but with these >duplexers I have had a hard time with tuning a pair of cavities with >the stock phasing lines. I seem to be getting "double peaks" and the >peaks just won't pull together down around 4

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need a duplexer

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin Custer
derek_mcintyre wrote: >I am not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but with these >duplexers I have had a hard time with tuning a pair of cavities with >the stock phasing lines. I seem to be getting "double peaks" and the >peaks just won't pull together down around 443 MHz. I went and

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Need a duplexer

2005-04-12 Thread derek_mcintyre
The T-1504 works very well if clean. The notches are difficult to tune perfectly if the inside of the cavity has been exposed to moisture. I have opened up cavities and cleaned with steel wool and coated with light grease and they tune much better. I am not sure if anyone else has had this