Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Radios to sale !!!!
Those are of no use for 2 meter ham, being as they are for a 5 MHz split. However, it might be possible to use them on the 440 band. Wayne WA2YNE Imperial, Tejas On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:21:05 -0500, gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, well i have 3 GE radios here with Little Sinclair Duplexer inside them,they were used as a phone patch link, they are : CT56AAS66A with their channelle elements at 152.195 mhz RX and 157.495 TX. the Duplexer are RES-LOK Model SD-220 Serial:Q3242-43 if someone need them just send me an email, if no response,fryday they are going to be recycle locally in a school in the radio Dept as cobaye for the students!!!:-) 73/s Gervais ve2ckn -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Radios to sale !!!!
I was refering mainly to the duplexers, not the rest of the units... On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:21:05 -0500, gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, well i have 3 GE radios here with Little Sinclair Duplexer inside them,they were used as a phone patch link, they are : CT56AAS66A with their channelle elements at 152.195 mhz RX and 157.495 TX. the Duplexer are RES-LOK Model SD-220 Serial:Q3242-43 if someone need them just send me an email, if no response,fryday they are going to be recycle locally in a school in the radio Dept as cobaye for the students!!!:-) 73/s Gervais ve2ckn -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need help IDing Celwave filter
John has good stuff at his site. Connectors and jumpers at very good prices. Thanks for posting. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:29 AM, nj902 wrote: http://www.sigintdf .com/rfcat09. htm http://www.sigintdf.com/rfcat09.htm John's contact information is on his web site. - - - - - - --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com , kk2ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I should have picked up a few more of these ... mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need help IDing Celwave filter
Hi Ron, Name here is Scott with call sign N7zib. I happened to see your plug for the repeater. Is that by chance an Echolink station too? Scott _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wright Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:08 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need help IDing Celwave filter John has good stuff at his site. Connectors and jumpers at very good prices. Thanks for posting. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:29 AM, nj902 wrote: http://www.sigintdf http://www.sigintdf.com/rfcat09.htm .com/rfcat09. htm John's contact information is on his web site. - - - - - - --- In Repeater-Builder@ mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com yahoogroups. com, kk2ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I should have picked up a few more of these ... mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[Repeater-Builder] ID-O-Matic Installation on Mastr II Stock Repeater Card
for: Mike Morris WA6ILQ Mike, I just uploaded my files on a simple installation of the ID-O-Matic on a Mastr II repeater audio board. They are found in the Mastr II group files. If you are interested, you are welcome to post these files on the Repeater-Builder site. I don't have a way to consolidate these files into a single .PDF, so you can edit them into a single file if you so desire. The install adds a CW ID and a squelch tail with courtesy tone to the existing GE repeater audio and repeater control cards. No addition is required to the control card, the whole thing installs on the repeater audio card. 73 - Jim W5ZIT
Re: [Repeater-Builder]part 97.201 was Control Link
When I say through one of the groups I refer to arrl VEC groups. You fill out ARRL VEC Form 605-C and mail it to one of the groups. Must be signed by the trustee and one officer of the club (may not be the same person). I tried changing it in the ULS system, and was _NOT_ allowed to do so. I did change my 0wn addres twice with no problem. For clarification, see: http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/605ins.html#club Interesting, it does not state that the officers of a club, other than the trustee, need to hold a ham license. Trustee must hold any class license other than Novice. How long ago did your trustee move? I is most likely that he was only able to change the address for his license, and not the club license, using the ULS system. Wayne WA2YNE On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:49 -0500, Mike Besemer (WM4B) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne, What do you mean 'routing it through one of the groups'? I'm not positive, but when the holder of our club call moved, I think he just had to go into ULS and request the changes to the mailing address. I'll ask him when I talk to him again, but I remember him saying he had a problem only because he'd never registered in ULS. Mike WM4B -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:53 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]part 97.201 was Control Link I had tried a Google search, but as one person pointed out, too many web sites not updated. Now I see it is best to simply go directly to the FCC web site and look. regarding club calls/licenses, you cannot even put in a change of address without routing it through one of the groups, as I found out. Wayne WA2YNE On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:25:21 -0500, Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get any FCC regs go to: http://www.fcc.gov/ Select on the left Rules Regulations. At the top select Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Now you can scroll down and select ANY Part you want including Part 97, the Amateur RAdio rules. You will be taken to another site. I always go to the first page of a reg to see its date. For at least 6 months after the changes in Feb 2007 when the code was removed, changes in AUX freq, etc the site had not been updated. The ARRL site was the same. Both now appear up to date. At the FCC.gov site one can do many things like apply for some license, get vanity call, renew, etc. They even take credit cards. However, a club call must be applied for on hard paper thru a VEC like ARRL or W5YI. 73, ron, n9ee/r -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need help IDing Celwave filter
Scott, Yes we have echolink 24/7 on the 146.64 repeater. Node 79540. Look for WD8YDH or my call. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Scott Berry wrote: Hi Ron, Name here is Scott with call sign N7zib. I happened to see your plug for the repeater. Is that by chance an Echolink station too? Scott ___ From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Repeater- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Wright Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:08 AM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Need help IDing Celwave filter John has good stuff at his site. Connectors and jumpers at very good prices. Thanks for posting. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay , FL No tone, all are welcome. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:29 AM, nj902 wrote: http://www.sigintdf ..com/rfcat09. htm http://www.sigintdf.com/rfcat09.htm John's contact information is on his web site. - - - - - - --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com , kk2ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I should have picked up a few more of these ...
RE: [Repeater-Builder]part 97.201 was Control Link
Well, he moved quite a while ago, but the updating of the license data was forgotten about until I noticed it on QRZ.com. I forgot to ask him what he ended up doing... I'll try to file that particular brain-cell away into the 'important' database. Mike WM4B -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:11 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]part 97.201 was Control Link When I say through one of the groups I refer to arrl VEC groups. You fill out ARRL VEC Form 605-C and mail it to one of the groups. Must be signed by the trustee and one officer of the club (may not be the same person). I tried changing it in the ULS system, and was _NOT_ allowed to do so. I did change my 0wn addres twice with no problem. For clarification, see: http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/605ins.html#club Interesting, it does not state that the officers of a club, other than the trustee, need to hold a ham license. Trustee must hold any class license other than Novice. How long ago did your trustee move? I is most likely that he was only able to change the address for his license, and not the club license, using the ULS system. Wayne WA2YNE On Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:49 -0500, Mike Besemer (WM4B) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne, What do you mean 'routing it through one of the groups'? I'm not positive, but when the holder of our club call moved, I think he just had to go into ULS and request the changes to the mailing address. I'll ask him when I talk to him again, but I remember him saying he had a problem only because he'd never registered in ULS. Mike WM4B -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:53 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]part 97.201 was Control Link I had tried a Google search, but as one person pointed out, too many web sites not updated. Now I see it is best to simply go directly to the FCC web site and look. regarding club calls/licenses, you cannot even put in a change of address without routing it through one of the groups, as I found out. Wayne WA2YNE On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:25:21 -0500, Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get any FCC regs go to: http://www.fcc.gov/ Select on the left Rules Regulations. At the top select Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Now you can scroll down and select ANY Part you want including Part 97, the Amateur RAdio rules. You will be taken to another site. I always go to the first page of a reg to see its date. For at least 6 months after the changes in Feb 2007 when the code was removed, changes in AUX freq, etc the site had not been updated. The ARRL site was the same. Both now appear up to date. At the FCC.gov site one can do many things like apply for some license, get vanity call, renew, etc. They even take credit cards. However, a club call must be applied for on hard paper thru a VEC like ARRL or W5YI. 73, ron, n9ee/r -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Radios to sale !!!!
At 5/25/2008 00:17, you wrote: Those are of no use for 2 meter ham, being as they are for a 5 MHz split. However, it might be possible to use them on the 440 band. Wayne WA2YNE Imperial, Tejas VHF HB mobile duplexers can't be tuned to 440, but if it's a 6-section duplexer, it can be tuned down to about 2.5 MHz, allowing use on 2 meters for portable repeaters. Bob NO6B
[Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station battery backup question
Hello All, I have acquired a UHF Mastr II station in great working order. It's got what appears to be a 65-watt mobile type PA (approx 2 high heatsink that sticks out the back) so someday I'd like to upgrade that to a continuous duty model when I run across one. In the mean time I am wondering how to adapt a battery backup system into this unit. I've got the original 30 amp (I think) GE power supply, where the station gets power from the classic Molex-style connector and the PA gets power through the large fuse on the rear of the unit. What I don't see anywhere back there is any designated place to hook up a battery circuit. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of these things across the country in amateur service and undoubtedly many of you have made some battery system for this very same setup. If anybody could share how you've worked in a battery backup and some sort of charging system I'd love to hear about it. Thanks all!! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle
Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station battery backup question
Willis, I have run across two different versions of a factory mod to apply a backup battery to a Mastr II. One has a built in charger and the other uses an external charger. The stock GE power supply has a bleeder resistor across the output to keep the voltage in check when lightly loaded, and that has to be disconnected in battery service. The relay in the power supply changes the source over to the battery when the AC power fails and disconnect the bleeder at the same time. It would quickly discharge the battery if it were left connected. The filter caps are still in the circuit when the battery is engaged, so there will be no interruption of service when the AC fails. Not even a glitch on the transmitter if it happened to be keyed. Here is a link to a recent backup system I installed on a GE Mastr II repeater. It did not have the built in charger, so an outboard charger is used. http://sbarcnm.org/forum/index.php?topic=102.0 73 - Jim W5ZIT Willis M. Hagler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have acquired a UHF Mastr II station in great working order. It's got what appears to be a 65-watt mobile type PA (approx 2 high heatsink that sticks out the back) so someday I'd like to upgrade that to a continuous duty model when I run across one. In the mean time I am wondering how to adapt a battery backup system into this unit. I've got the original 30 amp (I think) GE power supply, where the station gets power from the classic Molex-style connector and the PA gets power through the large fuse on the rear of the unit. What I don't see anywhere back there is any designated place to hook up a battery circuit. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of these things across the country in amateur service and undoubtedly many of you have made some battery system for this very same setup. If anybody could share how you've worked in a battery backup and some sort of charging system I'd love to hear about it. Thanks all!! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle
Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station battery backup question
I had installed some EGE lowband bases some years back, now 11 years, that had battery back up and they had a separate, I think 10A power supply that charged the battery and I believe had a relay that caused the battery to connect to the base station on a power failure. I know that there was a heavy interconnect cable assembley between the two supplies and a separate connection for the battery. If you need I can try to find the #'s that were used with this system. Steve KB3FPN - Original Message - From: Willis M. Hagler To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:17 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station battery backup question Hello All, I have acquired a UHF Mastr II station in great working order. It's got what appears to be a 65-watt mobile type PA (approx 2 high heatsink that sticks out the back) so someday I'd like to upgrade that to a continuous duty model when I run across one. In the mean time I am wondering how to adapt a battery backup system into this unit. I've got the original 30 amp (I think) GE power supply, where the station gets power from the classic Molex-style connector and the PA gets power through the large fuse on the rear of the unit. What I don't see anywhere back there is any designated place to hook up a battery circuit. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of these things across the country in amateur service and undoubtedly many of you have made some battery system for this very same setup. If anybody could share how you've worked in a battery backup and some sort of charging system I'd love to hear about it. Thanks all!! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle
[Repeater-Builder] Re: GE Mastr II Station battery backup question
Hello Jim Thank you for the information. If my GE power supply had the modification installed with a relay to switch to battery power then I would assume there would be some sort of battery terminals on the power supply. Mine doesn't have anything that looks like that so I'm guessing the power supply I have was not built with that mod. Do you (or anybody else) know if it's possible to modify the power supply to add these parts or if anything like this has been done before? Also I am considering not using the GE power supply at all and using a newer one with battery service built in. This is assuming that the GE Master II will run fine off of a regular 13.8v power supply rated for sufficient continuous duty current. If anybody has experience along these lines I'd be interested in hearing about what you've done for power supply that isn't the original GE one. Thanks all, this is a great group of people and I enjoy reading this list! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Jim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willis, I have run across two different versions of a factory mod to apply a backup battery to a Mastr II. One has a built in charger and the other uses an external charger. The stock GE power supply has a bleeder resistor across the output to keep the voltage in check when lightly loaded, and that has to be disconnected in battery service. The relay in the power supply changes the source over to the battery when the AC power fails and disconnect the bleeder at the same time. It would quickly discharge the battery if it were left connected. The filter caps are still in the circuit when the battery is engaged, so there will be no interruption of service when the AC fails. Not even a glitch on the transmitter if it happened to be keyed. Here is a link to a recent backup system I installed on a GE Mastr II repeater. It did not have the built in charger, so an outboard charger is used. http://sbarcnm.org/forum/index.php?topic=102.0 73 - Jim W5ZIT Willis M. Hagler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have acquired a UHF Mastr II station in great working order. It's got what appears to be a 65-watt mobile type PA (approx 2 high heatsink that sticks out the back) so someday I'd like to upgrade that to a continuous duty model when I run across one. In the mean time I am wondering how to adapt a battery backup system into this unit. I've got the original 30 amp (I think) GE power supply, where the station gets power from the classic Molex-style connector and the PA gets power through the large fuse on the rear of the unit. What I don't see anywhere back there is any designated place to hook up a battery circuit. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of these things across the country in amateur service and undoubtedly many of you have made some battery system for this very same setup. If anybody could share how you've worked in a battery backup and some sort of charging system I'd love to hear about it. Thanks all!! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GE Mastr II Station battery backup question
For the GE units I have seen, the battery leads came out the large hole in the back of the supply where the DC leads to the fuse mounted on the rear panel emerge. The Repeater-Builder site has the battery backup mod documentation and I downloaded it there. I can look it up if you can't find it. We had a lead inside a GE supply come loose after we hauled it across the country in a pickup, and ran the repeater off a 20 amp Astron with no problem. It was a 30 watt UHF unit, so the current draw was not too high. One of the larger Astron supplies should run the high power units OK. We repaired the GE supply and it is still in service. There is a Molex plug on the back of the supply, and you have to connect your supply to both the wires in the plug and the two leads to the final amp. The GE supply has a little extra filtering on the low current output and provides a low value fuse in that line. You would be wise to provide a 5 amp fuse in line with the low current Molex connector going into the receiver and exciter area when using a non-GE supply. If the repeater is located in an area where there are people, the buzz from the ferro-resonant transformer will become annoying after a while. And the effeciency of the GE supply is not as good as an Astron. But don't go for a switching supply if you can help it. They are prone to have more problems when operated 24/7 in repeater service. 73 - Jim W5ZIT Willis M. Hagler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jim Thank you for the information. If my GE power supply had the modification installed with a relay to switch to battery power then I would assume there would be some sort of battery terminals on the power supply. Mine doesn't have anything that looks like that so I'm guessing the power supply I have was not built with that mod. Do you (or anybody else) know if it's possible to modify the power supply to add these parts or if anything like this has been done before? Also I am considering not using the GE power supply at all and using a newer one with battery service built in. This is assuming that the GE Master II will run fine off of a regular 13.8v power supply rated for sufficient continuous duty current. If anybody has experience along these lines I'd be interested in hearing about what you've done for power supply that isn't the original GE one. Thanks all, this is a great group of people and I enjoy reading this list! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Jim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willis, I have run across two different versions of a factory mod to apply a backup battery to a Mastr II. One has a built in charger and the other uses an external charger. The stock GE power supply has a bleeder resistor across the output to keep the voltage in check when lightly loaded, and that has to be disconnected in battery service. The relay in the power supply changes the source over to the battery when the AC power fails and disconnect the bleeder at the same time. It would quickly discharge the battery if it were left connected. The filter caps are still in the circuit when the battery is engaged, so there will be no interruption of service when the AC fails. Not even a glitch on the transmitter if it happened to be keyed. Here is a link to a recent backup system I installed on a GE Mastr II repeater. It did not have the built in charger, so an outboard charger is used. http://sbarcnm.org/forum/index.php?topic=102.0 73 - Jim W5ZIT Willis M. Hagler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have acquired a UHF Mastr II station in great working order. It's got what appears to be a 65-watt mobile type PA (approx 2 high heatsink that sticks out the back) so someday I'd like to upgrade that to a continuous duty model when I run across one. In the mean time I am wondering how to adapt a battery backup system into this unit. I've got the original 30 amp (I think) GE power supply, where the station gets power from the classic Molex-style connector and the PA gets power through the large fuse on the rear of the unit. What I don't see anywhere back there is any designated place to hook up a battery circuit. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of these things across the country in amateur service and undoubtedly many of you have made some battery system for this very same setup. If anybody could share how you've worked in a battery backup and some sort of charging system I'd love to hear about it. Thanks all!! Mark Hagler W7WMH Seattle
