Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread John J. Riddell
Greetings, Nit-Pickers

Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater VE3RPT
used secode tonesa single
tone interupted by  a standard telephone dial to remote control the
repeater.
This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)

VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this area to
use
Touch-Tone in 1969.

73 John VE3AMZ


- Original Message - 
From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


| I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
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| Chuck
| WB2EDV
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| - Original Message - 
| From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
| Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:07 AM
| Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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|If the dual tones went away. how do you remotely control your
|   system via radio?
| 
|Neil
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|  Ken Arck wrote:
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|   At 10:48 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
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| I know, now you want my study of the tone frequency comparisons
|of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
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|   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
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|   Ken
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[Repeater-Builder] Help with new(ish) ant

2004-07-18 Thread Rick - VA3RZS/Charlotte - VA3CMR
Hello Guys .. 

I have what I belive to be a sinclair folded dipole ant. ( 4bay)
(the coax runs down the support arm into the dipole)

I don't know how wide band this ant is 

the inside dim is aprox 33inch the with if the tume I would say a 
good 1/2 

I am looking to install this on to our repeater ( 147.300)

I am not sure what this ant is cut for right now

I hope some one can help us out so we can move from a ringo to a 
better ant.

Thanks

RIck



Rick Szajkowski VA3 RZS
Charlotte Darby VA3 CMR
Node Owners of IRLP Node 2120
Lakefield Ont Canada






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Mark Holman
This sounds like the way the old mobile Radio Telephones used I think was 20
khz. ( ?? ) tone and the rotary dial , and looking at the control in that
fashion  old RT used the 152-157 Mhz. offset I think if I have it right.

Mark A. Holman, CRO, AB8RU
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- Original Message - 
From: John J. Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 Greetings, Nit-Pickers

 Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater VE3RPT
 used secode tonesa single
 tone interupted by  a standard telephone dial to remote control the
 repeater.
 This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)

 VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this area
to
 use
 Touch-Tone in 1969.

 73 John VE3AMZ


 - Original Message - 
 From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 | I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
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 | Chuck
 | WB2EDV
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 | From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 | Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:07 AM
 | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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 |If the dual tones went away. how do you remotely control your
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 |Neil
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 |   At 10:48 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
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 | I know, now you want my study of the tone frequency comparisons
 |of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
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 |   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
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 |   President and CTO - Arcom Communications
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[Repeater-Builder] Secode MTS Decoders - Some History

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Lemmon
Shades of all-tube mobile radios with Dynamotors!

In 1970, I had a GE Pacer under-dash 2-channel mobile radio with a
Secode MTS decoder mounted on its right side, with a PTT handset on the
front.  My telephone number was JL-2-6759, the JL indicating which of
the MTS channels I was to monitor.  A Pacer was completely tubed, but it
had a transistorized power supply and put out 12 watts.

The Secode decoder was an electromechanical stepper switch that
responded to the 600/1500 Hz tones.  When a call to a mobile unit was
being made, the 1500 Hz tone was changed to 600 Hz at a 10 PPS rate. 
Each pulse ratcheted the decoder wheel one notch, and pins were placed
at each notch that represented one of the digits of the assigned phone
number.  If a pin was at the notch where each pulsing series ended, the
wheel would be latched at that point, ready for the next digit.  As each
of the five digits was dialed, the wheel would make it all the way to
the ringing contact.  If any of the five digits did not match the pin
placement, the wheel would not be latched and would return to the home
position.  Because there were few MTS users in town, I usually knew that
an incoming call was for me, simply by counting the stepping sounds in
my head.  In 1970, the move to IMTS had already begun.  IMTS used
frequency-agile radios that could place and receive calls automatically.

To place a call, I had to lift the handset and first ensure that nobody
was using the channel.  If it was free, I keyed the PTT for two seconds
or so, and waited for the mobile operator to respond.  I then gave her
my mobile telephone number and the number I wanted to call.  This was
certainly a slow and bothersome way to make a phone call, but hey- this
was in the early days of mobile telephone service!

73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY

Mark Holman wrote:
 
 This sounds like the way the old mobile Radio Telephones used I think was 20 
 khz. ( ?? ) tone and the rotary dial, and looking at the control in that 
 fashion old RT used the 152-157 MHz. offset I think if I have it right.




 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Secode MTS Decoders - Some History

2004-07-18 Thread Chuck Kelsey
Hey, it may have been obsolete technology, but it sure beat the heck out
of performance people are expected to put up with using cell phones. That
old technology actually worked good.

Chuck
WB2EDV



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Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:26 PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Secode MTS Decoders - Some History



 To place a call, I had to lift the handset and first ensure that nobody
 was using the channel.  If it was free, I keyed the PTT for two seconds
 or so, and waited for the mobile operator to respond.  I then gave her
 my mobile telephone number and the number I wanted to call.  This was
 certainly a slow and bothersome way to make a phone call, but hey- this
 was in the early days of mobile telephone service!

 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY








 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread John J. Riddell
Mark,  The Public Mobile tel's used 600 / 1500 Hz alternating when a mobile
was dialed.
The first signal sent was a 600 followed by a 1500 Hz tone to clear the
selector, then the number
was dialed.  This was the old YJ,YK,JK etc stations Tx on 152.xxx Mhz. The
receiver in the base station was
5.26 Mhz higher in freq.
Western Electric made a big beast of a decoder with an wheel in it for
programming and later
here in Canada we used an Electronic selector made by Scantlin Co

(I used to fix those brutes back in the early 60's while working at Bell
Canada.)

John VE3AMZ


- Original Message - 
From: Mark Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


| This sounds like the way the old mobile Radio Telephones used I think was
20
| khz. ( ?? ) tone and the rotary dial , and looking at the control in that
| fashion  old RT used the 152-157 Mhz. offset I think if I have it right.
|
| Mark A. Holman, CRO, AB8RU
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| - Original Message - 
| From: John J. Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
| Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:01 PM
| Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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|  Greetings, Nit-Pickers
| 
|  Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater
VE3RPT
|  used secode tonesa single
|  tone interupted by  a standard telephone dial to remote control the
|  repeater.
|  This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)
| 
|  VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this area
| to
|  use
|  Touch-Tone in 1969.
| 
|  73 John VE3AMZ
| 
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|  - Original Message - 
|  From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|  To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
|  Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
|  Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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|  | I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
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|  | Chuck
|  | WB2EDV
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|  | - Original Message - 
|  | From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|  | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
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|  | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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|  |of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
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|  |   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Neil McKie

  In the earlier days of all of this, frequently a rotary dial from 
 your home telephone was used.  Most of all, not only for controlling 
 the system but making those all important (?) phone calls too. 

  I remember in the early seventies, someone in the Southern 
 California area somehow managed to score a bunch of Western Electric 
 Touch-Tone key pads.  The early ones were the ten button type ... 
 later the 12 button and, occasionally, a very rare 16 button keypad 
 showed up. 

  They all were made by Western Electric and worked quite well as 
 I remember.  A few of the systems I was on required the 16 button 
 keypad, so I bought one and installed it in a Radio Shack project 
 box.  The output ran to a selector switch so I could select either 
 the UHF GE Mastr-Pro or the UHF Motorola Motrac I was using - I had 
 both installed in a couple of my cars at the time.  Both radios were 
 four frequency, duplexed, multiple CTCSS encode and using separate 
 antennas for transmit and receive.  

  I had the necessary parts for making the GE Mastr-Pro into an 8 
 frequency radio but that wouldn't have worked with the GE Priority 
 Search-Lock Monitor (PSLM) Control head I was using. 

  This was in the days of cheap crystals and rather expensive, for 
 us, radios. 

  Electrical systems in the cars are another story ... 

  One car had six Motorola and GE control heads from door to door, 
 and seven or eight antennas.  

  Another car had a 150 watt incadescent light bulb hanging from the 
 rear view mirror ... a map reading lamp of course. 

  If any of you wander this direction sometime, I can show you some 
 of these fun radios. 

  Enjoy yourself, 

  Neil McKie - WA6KLA 


John J. Riddell wrote:
 
 Greetings, Nit-Pickers
 
 Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater 
 VE3RPT used secode tonesa single tone interupted by a 
 standard telephone dial to remote control the repeater.
 This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)
 
 VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this 
 area to use Touch-Tone in 1969.
 
 73 John VE3AMZ
 
 - Original Message -
 From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 
 | I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
 |
 | Chuck
 | WB2EDV
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 | - Original Message -
 | From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 | Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:07 AM
 | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 |
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 |If the dual tones went away. how do you remotely control your
 |   system via radio?
 | 
 |Neil
 | 
 |  Ken Arck wrote:
 |  
 |   At 10:48 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
 |   
 | I know, now you want my study of the tone frequency
 |comparisons of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
 |  
 |   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
 |  
 |   Ken
 |   --
 |   President and CTO - Arcom Communications
 |   Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and 
 |   accessories.  http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
 |   AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000
 |   http://www.irlp.net
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Jack Davis
The Secode tone was 2805 CPS and the mechanical decoder used a pin to latch
when a proper pulse count was received.  A number of the RCC phone systems
used that for selective calling.

The MTS and later IMTS phones used the same type of mechanical decoder but
used alternating mark and space tones of 600 and 1500 CPS.  The Motorola
IMTS logic board was a fully discreet transistor decoder that used jumper
wires to program the number.  They were about 14 by 20 inch PC Boards that
were really densely populated.  They were a bugger to fix, most shops
exchanged them with Bat Parts when they failed.

Now the entire decoder is the size of a postage stamp!

Jack
K6YC
- Original Message - 
From: John J. Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 Greetings, Nit-Pickers

 Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater VE3RPT
 used secode tonesa single
 tone interupted by  a standard telephone dial to remote control the
 repeater.
 This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)

 VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this area
to
 use
 Touch-Tone in 1969.

 73 John VE3AMZ


 - Original Message - 
 From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 | I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
 |
 | Chuck
 | WB2EDV
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 | - Original Message - 
 | From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 | Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:07 AM
 | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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 |If the dual tones went away. how do you remotely control your
 |   system via radio?
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 |Neil
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 |  Ken Arck wrote:
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 |   At 10:48 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
 |   
 | I know, now you want my study of the tone frequency comparisons
 |of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
 |  
 |   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
 |  
 |   Ken
 |   -
 |   President and CTO - Arcom Communications
 |   Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
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[Repeater-Builder] Micor Base/Repeater Power Amplifier mod?

2004-07-18 Thread Frank R. Vondra
I'm curious to know if anyone is using a B93 Micor station on two-
meters and what if any modifications are required to make it operate?






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread JOHN MACKEY
In my hay-day I had the following all installed in a 1978 Camaro

8 channel scanner (to monitor local law  fire on low, high  UHF)
4 channel 100 watt 150 MHz Mocom 70 for my 2 VHF business freqs
12 channel 100 watt Micor on 29.6 MHz  other 10 FM freqs (with extender)
4 channel 50 watt CHP Motran on 52.525 MHz
40 channel AM/SSB CB (with funny channels) and a 150 watt linear amp
2 meter Icom 280 (programmable with remote head option) and 80 watt amp
Of course, I also had a AM/FM Stereo (Pioneer) with 4 speakers







 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread JOHN MACKEY
Does anyone know if any of the old 35/43 MHz mobile phone systems still
exist?

For that mater, do any of the 152/157 MHz or 450 Mhz mobile phone systems
still exist?






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Neil McKie

  I think I may still that video of your '78 Camaro ... somewhere. 

  Neil 


JOHN MACKEY wrote:
 
 In my hay-day I had the following all installed in a 1978 Camaro
 
 8 channel scanner (to monitor local law  fire on low, high  UHF)
 4 channel 100 watt 150 MHz Mocom 70 for my 2 VHF business freqs
 12 channel 100 watt Micor on 29.6 MHz  other 10 FM freqs (with 
 extender)
 4 channel 50 watt CHP Motran on 52.525 MHz
 40 channel AM/SSB CB (with funny channels) and a 150 watt linear 
 amp
 2 meter Icom 280 (programmable with remote head option) and 80 watt 
 amp
 Of course, I also had a AM/FM Stereo (Pioneer) with 4 speakers






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Q
Yeah,me too. RCC chs 1,3,5,7,13,25,27,29.Could read the number by ear
too...then went to DTMF/2 tone and I can almost read those by ear too. Most
of  those channels are now paging around here...thanks to cellular. 2 way is
also pretty dead  around here...

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From: russ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 This is what the wire line phone co's used. Most of the RCC's did use 2805
 Secode for dialing. I use to own channel 5 (rcc) in Wilmington Del. Well
 part owner any way at one time. and we also had Secode it was 2805 HZ from
 what I remember from the 70thy's.

 - Original Message -
 From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:47 AM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


  Does anyone know if any of the old 35/43 MHz mobile phone systems still
  exist?
 
  For that mater, do any of the 152/157 MHz or 450 Mhz mobile phone
systems
  still exist?







 
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[Repeater-Builder] Re: Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread tony dinkel
It was kind of a joke in the 70's,,,

We all had Motracs, 8 tracks and Japtracs.

td



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   Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:44:39 -0500
   From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just a couple of dB loss you say?

In my hay-day I had the following all installed in a 1978 Camaro

8 channel scanner (to monitor local law  fire on low, high  UHF)






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Neil McKie

  Good point Tony, 

  Neil 


tony dinkel wrote:
 
 It was kind of a joke in the 70's,,,
 
 We all had Motracs, 8 tracks and Japtracs.
 
 td
 
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:44:39 -0500
From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 
 In my hay-day I had the following all installed in a 1978 Camaro
 
 8 channel scanner (to monitor local law  fire on low, high  UHF)
 
 
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[Repeater-Builder] Help with 210C4 (sd214)

2004-07-18 Thread Rick - VA3RZS/Charlotte - VA3CMR

Thanks guys for the help finding out what this ant really is 

no I need help rebuilding the cables .. 

from the dipole there is about 6-8 inc of cable with a N conn. on it

now to build the cable to allow all 4 dipoles to work together

has any one built the harness for these ??

the freq I need is for the top of our band 117.300/147.900

Thanks for any help in this matter


Rick


Rick Szajkowski VA3 RZS
Charlotte Darby VA3 CMR
Node Owners of IRLP Node 2120
Lakefield Ont Canada






 
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Mark Holman
What I was told @ Ferris State College back in 1974 by my Radio  Television
Instructor, I was wondering now maybe there are several variations of this
mobile phone, one person thought you could turn it into a Repeater ( ?? )
kinda wide bandwidth for its operation I think.

Mark A. Holman, CRO, AB8RU
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- Original Message - 
From: John J. Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 Mark,  The Public Mobile tel's used 600 / 1500 Hz alternating when a
mobile
 was dialed.
 The first signal sent was a 600 followed by a 1500 Hz tone to clear the
 selector, then the number
 was dialed.  This was the old YJ,YK,JK etc stations Tx on 152.xxx Mhz. The
 receiver in the base station was
 5.26 Mhz higher in freq.
 Western Electric made a big beast of a decoder with an wheel in it for
 programming and later
 here in Canada we used an Electronic selector made by Scantlin Co

 (I used to fix those brutes back in the early 60's while working at Bell
 Canada.)

 John VE3AMZ


 - Original Message - 
 From: Mark Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:49 PM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 | This sounds like the way the old mobile Radio Telephones used I think
was
 20
 | khz. ( ?? ) tone and the rotary dial , and looking at the control in
that
 | fashion  old RT used the 152-157 Mhz. offset I think if I have it right.
 |
 | Mark A. Holman, CRO, AB8RU
 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 | - Original Message - 
 | From: John J. Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 | Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:01 PM
 | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 |
 |
 |  Greetings, Nit-Pickers
 | 
 |  Back in 1965 the Buffalo repeater WB2TLJ  and the Toronto repeater
 VE3RPT
 |  used secode tonesa single
 |  tone interupted by  a standard telephone dial to remote control the
 |  repeater.
 |  This was prior to using DTMF (Touch-Tone)
 | 
 |  VE3KSR in Kitchener, Ont was among the very first repeaters in this
area
 | to
 |  use
 |  Touch-Tone in 1969.
 | 
 |  73 John VE3AMZ
 | 
 | 
 |  - Original Message - 
 |  From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 |  To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 |  Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 PM
 |  Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 | 
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 |  | I was wondering how he dialed his phone.
 |  |
 |  | Chuck
 |  | WB2EDV
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 |  | - Original Message - 
 |  | From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 |  | To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 |  | Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 8:07 AM
 |  | Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
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 |  | 
 |  |If the dual tones went away. how do you remotely control your
 |  |   system via radio?
 |  | 
 |  |Neil
 |  | 
 |  |  Ken Arck wrote:
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 |  |   At 10:48 AM 7/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
 |  |   
 |  | I know, now you want my study of the tone frequency
comparisons
 |  |of the Bell System Touch-Tone plan?
 |  |  
 |  |   ---Naaah. Dual tones went out with 62 Nash Ramblers :-)
 |  |  
 |  |   Ken
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?

2004-07-18 Thread Mark Holman
Well I head North in Michigan up US -131 some spots are cell dead, thats
where VHF repeaters and some UHF repeaters come in depends how close you are
to that Canadain Cooridor that is in the Regs. I do know the Northern Boys
are if a repeater isn't available, then if HF Comm or Simplex is useable
then they use it, but don't mention 11M. to them some places thats a Swear
Word, Banned from their List, etc..

they are 100% dyed in the wool hams.

Mark A. Holman, CRO, AB8RU
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- Original Message - 
From: Q [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


 Yeah,me too. RCC chs 1,3,5,7,13,25,27,29.Could read the number by ear
 too...then went to DTMF/2 tone and I can almost read those by ear too.
Most
 of  those channels are now paging around here...thanks to cellular. 2 way
is
 also pretty dead  around here...

 - Original Message -
 From: russ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:43 AM
 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?


  This is what the wire line phone co's used. Most of the RCC's did use
2805
  Secode for dialing. I use to own channel 5 (rcc) in Wilmington Del. Well
  part owner any way at one time. and we also had Secode it was 2805 HZ
from
  what I remember from the 70thy's.
 
  - Original Message -
  From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Just a couple of dB loss you say?
 
 
   Does anyone know if any of the old 35/43 MHz mobile phone systems
still
   exist?
  
   For that mater, do any of the 152/157 MHz or 450 Mhz mobile phone
 systems
   still exist?








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