Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas
--- Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good to me. Figure up how much for shipping and how you want payment and will take it from there. How hard is it to get it converted? I have little to no knowlede about the motorola radios, so this is all new to me. Mathew - Original Message - From: Joe Montierth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas --- Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Niel, actually I need a VHF exciter. What I have is working, but would rather have something a little better built than the regency. Mathew I have several of the VHF Micor mobile 400mW exciters. You would have to interface power, ptt, audio, etc to the proper pins to make it play. Let me know if you want one, $15 plus shipping, I'll throw in a channel element in the 150-160 Mhz range. Joe __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links I was out of town yesterday. If you still want the exciter I will ship it for $5. That would be $20 total. Let me know, I accept Paypal, Visa, MC, or cash or check. Joe __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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/
[Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. Mathew Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... 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 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
--- w9mwq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. Mathew You might be better off getting a commercial type exciter. The Micor mobile or base exciter puts out around .4 to .5 watts and might be a good choice to look at. They are widely available, and lots of literature about them. They also are continuous duty rated, and you can probably pick one up for under $20 (you can get the whole radio for that much). Joe __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
At 12:08 AM 6/11/04 +, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. It's designed for a short duty cycle so it will get hot in minutes. It's not frequency stable when it gets hot. It will get dirty (spectrally) when it gets hot. Do yourself a BIG favor and find a 25w UHF Micor mobile. It's rated for continuous duty and is EASY to convert. Likewise a low power Mastr-II. Or take a RCA 700 series UHF mobile radio. Pull out the T-power supply subchassis and the tube PA deck subchassis. Plug the antenna relay connector into the exciter board What you have left is a 10w continuous duty radio. The 700 series base station is just as simple. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
$79.95 for a 2C (2PPM) ICOM. I have 2 at ICM now getting recrystalled. Jamey KD4SIY -Original Message- From: Mathew Quaife [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:02 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas They say ICM is the best of this, is this true? Is that price about right $100.00 per element. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
They say ICM is the best of this, is this true? Is that price about right $100.00 per element. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
That's not quite so bad. Well I will just have to see what comes out of it. All I need is something that puts out about 400 milliwatts to drive the amp. I was just hoping to get rid of the regency stuff. Mathew - Original Message - From: Jamey Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas $79.95 for a 2C (2PPM) ICOM. I have 2 at ICM now getting recrystalled. Jamey KD4SIY -Original Message- From: Mathew Quaife [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:02 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas They say ICM is the best of this, is this true? Is that price about right $100.00 per element. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas
Re the RCA Series 700 mobile ... is completely solid state - I used to service them and have one here. The 700 makes a dandy repeater. Neil - WA6KLA Mike WA6ILQ wrote: At 12:08 AM 6/11/04 +, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. It's designed for a short duty cycle so it will get hot in minutes. It's not frequency stable when it gets hot. It will get dirty (spectrally) when it gets hot. Do yourself a BIG favor and find a 25w UHF Micor mobile. It's rated for continuous duty and is EASY to convert. Likewise a low power Mastr-II. Or take a RCA 700 series UHF mobile radio. Pull out the T-power supply subchassis and the tube PA deck subchassis. Plug the antenna relay connector into the exciter board What you have left is a 10w continuous duty radio. The 700 series base station is just as simple. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
Naw, the last time I did it was about $40 or so. Neil Mathew Quaife wrote: They say ICM is the best of this, is this true? Is that price about right $100.00 per element. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas
Thanks Niel, actually I need a VHF exciter. What I have is working, but would rather have something a little better built than the regency. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas Re the RCA Series 700 mobile ... is completely solid state - I used to service them and have one here. The 700 makes a dandy repeater. Neil - WA6KLA Mike WA6ILQ wrote: At 12:08 AM 6/11/04 +, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. It's designed for a short duty cycle so it will get hot in minutes. It's not frequency stable when it gets hot. It will get dirty (spectrally) when it gets hot. Do yourself a BIG favor and find a 25w UHF Micor mobile. It's rated for continuous duty and is EASY to convert. Likewise a low power Mastr-II. Or take a RCA 700 series UHF mobile radio. Pull out the T-power supply subchassis and the tube PA deck subchassis. Plug the antenna relay connector into the exciter board What you have left is a 10w continuous duty radio. The 700 series base station is just as simple. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas
I did one for a UHF Micor about a year ago it was about $40. Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naw, the last time I did it was about $40 or so. Neil Mathew Quaife wrote: They say ICM is the best of this, is this true? Is that price about right $100.00 per element. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas As he said before, Micor or Mastr II exciter. Send in the Motorola Channel Element or GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module (ICOM) and a few bucks and get it done correctly the first time. If you don't do it correctly the first time, you will eventually and suffer until you do. Been there - done that !!! 73, Neil - WA6KLA Mathew Quaife wrote: It's the hundred bucks they want to convert the Xtals, well that is what I am told they cost to get converted. I just want this thing to be rock solid so that I don't have to do much with it except pay the electric bill. So if someone has an exciter that would work for cheap, let me know. Mathew - Original Message - From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas Stick with a Micor or Mastr II exciter. Cheap, and will work forever. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter - Thoughts Ideas At 12:08 AM 6/11/2004 -, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. ---Several issues here that I can think of off the top of my head. Frequency stability, spectral purity (or more precisely, lack thereof), duty cycle. And that's just for starters :-) IMHO, a bad idea from many different angles... Ken I might agree on Frequency Stability, heat may be a problem, but as for duty cycle, longest this repeater would ever be keyed up would be about an hour, I'd say it should handle that and much longer at 1/2 watt. Can say for the puirty until it was keyed up for awhile. Thanks. Mathew -- 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 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas
Sounds good to me. Figure up how much for shipping and how you want payment and will take it from there. How hard is it to get it converted? I have little to no knowlede about the motorola radios, so this is all new to me. Mathew - Original Message - From: Joe Montierth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas --- Mathew Quaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Niel, actually I need a VHF exciter. What I have is working, but would rather have something a little better built than the regency. Mathew I have several of the VHF Micor mobile 400mW exciters. You would have to interface power, ptt, audio, etc to the proper pins to make it play. Let me know if you want one, $15 plus shipping, I'll throw in a channel element in the 150-160 Mhz range. Joe __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas
Hello Mathew, Knowing Regency, yes I was called upon to (attempt) to service one once, *almost* anything in GE, RCA or Motorola or even a Bendix mobile radio will be better. When I mention Bendix, they made a certain mobile radio that, it seemed, someone had borrowed (ok, swiped) ideas elsewhere. The tubed receiver almost looked like a Motorola Research Line receiver strip. The transmitter looked very similar to a GE Progress Line. (I think I remember the power supply as being a regurgitated form of an RCA?) You may not know it, these days, in the mobile radio world, only General Electric and Motorola seem to still stand out - at least in the United states. Over the years, there were a few others some of us would really rather try to forget. Even Motorola and General Electric had some clinkers that were ... well let's say, not the best in reliability or really serviceable. Each radio tech I have known over the years had his own less than favorable product he had a slightly different name for. ;) I will relate this one story ... a certain manufacturer made a UHF radio (the only one I ever saw was a base - but were made in a mobile package too.) The receiver ... took a 75 MHz range crystal tubed oscillator / tripler (one stage) fed that signal to the diode frequency doubler stage which was also the first mixer. One stage of RF amplification prior to the diode first mixer then into the IF amplifier chain. When everything was new, sensitivity was ... er, ah, well, ok at best ... I will leave this here ... at 4:30am Neil Mathew Quaife wrote: Thanks Niel, actually I need a VHF exciter. What I have is working, but would rather have something a little better built than the regency. Mathew - Original Message - From: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using an HT for a Transmitter -Thoughts Ideas Re the RCA Series 700 mobile ... is completely solid state - I used to service them and have one here. The 700 makes a dandy repeater. Neil - WA6KLA Mike WA6ILQ wrote: At 12:08 AM 6/11/04 +, you wrote: Need some input on this, what others think. I am trying to pull all the Regency stuff from the repeater, only thing left is the transmitter. I want to use a Yaesu FT-10R as an exciter for the amp to the repeater. What are some thoughts on this. I only need a half watt to drive the amp. Any problems anyone can think I might run into. It's designed for a short duty cycle so it will get hot in minutes. It's not frequency stable when it gets hot. It will get dirty (spectrally) when it gets hot. Do yourself a BIG favor and find a 25w UHF Micor mobile. It's rated for continuous duty and is EASY to convert. Likewise a low power Mastr-II. Or take a RCA 700 series UHF mobile radio. Pull out the T-power supply subchassis and the tube PA deck subchassis. Plug the antenna relay connector into the exciter board What you have left is a 10w continuous duty radio. The 700 series base station is just as simple. Mike WA6ILQ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * 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/
