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Well the exciter element was still in there and it is 154.355. Does that tell us anything? The Recv ones are missing. Thanks, Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:12:03 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, There are basically 2 power leads from the power supply. 1 is a multi-wire cable that plugs into the card cage usually and the other is a large, #12, two wire that goes from the heavy terminal on the rear of the supply to the main chassis set of terminals, usually in the upper right. The multi-wire cable hopefully is there. It is just wirings coming out of the PS chassis and carries the low current 9.6V and 13.8V. The larger 2 wire is easy to make and supplies the power for the PA. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 07:51:35 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help The reason the power supply leads are missing is that I got it from the local used supply store. They had taken every thing out of the cabinet and were going to sell the cabinet and power supply seperate and probably throw the rest out. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:43:36 - tallinson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of through a repair shop. The missing PA power leads are a bit unusual but, at most, five minutes to replace them. If you want to make a repeater, you don't need an antenna relay but they can be found too, if needed. I wish I had a dollar for every ham repeater that is made from converted mobiles, these are ALL intermittent duty transmitters. With reduced power and a cooling fan (mainly for peace of mind) this station will be more reliable than 80% of the so called continuous duty ham gear out there. I'd take that station anyday in preference to a Kensu desktop repeater. The receiver is easily converted with a recoiled RF front end available very reasonably. Your biggest challenge is going to be that HIGH split transmitter. Tom --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intermittent duty base station that has been robbed of parts. No channel elements in the receiver, probably none in the transmitter. No station control card. No high current leads to the final. As noted by earlier posts this is not a unit that will handle long periods of transmission. Also no antenna relay (not that you need one for what you want to do). Given the number of missing parts I would be very suspicious of the overall condition of the unit. Milt N3LTQ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help How about some pictures? They are a little big and some are redundant but hopefully it should give you guys some idea of what I have. http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0001.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0002.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0003.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0004.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0005.jpg Vern On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Usually the easiest way to find what band and band segment it are on is to look at the Channel Elements, the small cans in the exciter and receiver. They unplug. A label on the top of the cans gives its frequency. However, to prevent them being put back on the same freq some pull the elements. Most always one can get to them thru a panel behind the receiver. Same with some exciters. There were 3 ranges for VHF as someone stated. Wonder what the heat sink looks like. The continuous duty has large 17w x 7h x 6 deep heat sink. Otherwise it is built into the main chassis or is tube amp. Mot made a number of variations of these. They do make good repeaters. Just takes some work. One clue if it is a repeater and not a base station is the card cage usually has a Squelch Gate card. This controls rx to tx keying. I think others gave you lots of good info with the repeater builders site. The power supply tells lots. Might describe it. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/28 Fri PM 01:19:10 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help I have a Compa Station with the model number C73RTB-1106C. I am looking for some help figuring out what this is split, etc and how to make it into a repeater. First things first is that there is no power leads hooked up except
Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help
Vern, Most likely tells you the TX is on 154.335 meaning it would be a 150-160 MHz split. On the solder side of the PCBs you should see a TLD number, something like this and if the last digit is a 2 it is 150-160 for both exciter and rcvr. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/31 Mon PM 01:49:37 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help Well the exciter element was still in there and it is 154.355. Does that tell us anything? The Recv ones are missing. Thanks, Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:12:03 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, There are basically 2 power leads from the power supply. 1 is a multi-wire cable that plugs into the card cage usually and the other is a large, #12, two wire that goes from the heavy terminal on the rear of the supply to the main chassis set of terminals, usually in the upper right. The multi-wire cable hopefully is there. It is just wirings coming out of the PS chassis and carries the low current 9.6V and 13.8V. The larger 2 wire is easy to make and supplies the power for the PA. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 07:51:35 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help The reason the power supply leads are missing is that I got it from the local used supply store. They had taken every thing out of the cabinet and were going to sell the cabinet and power supply seperate and probably throw the rest out. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:43:36 - tallinson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of through a repair shop. The missing PA power leads are a bit unusual but, at most, five minutes to replace them. If you want to make a repeater, you don't need an antenna relay but they can be found too, if needed. I wish I had a dollar for every ham repeater that is made from converted mobiles, these are ALL intermittent duty transmitters. With reduced power and a cooling fan (mainly for peace of mind) this station will be more reliable than 80% of the so called continuous duty ham gear out there. I'd take that station anyday in preference to a Kensu desktop repeater. The receiver is easily converted with a recoiled RF front end available very reasonably. Your biggest challenge is going to be that HIGH split transmitter. Tom --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intermittent duty base station that has been robbed of parts. No channel elements in the receiver, probably none in the transmitter. No station control card. No high current leads to the final. As noted by earlier posts this is not a unit that will handle long periods of transmission. Also no antenna relay (not that you need one for what you want to do). Given the number of missing parts I would be very suspicious of the overall condition of the unit. Milt N3LTQ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help How about some pictures? They are a little big and some are redundant but hopefully it should give you guys some idea of what I have. http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0001.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0002.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0003.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0004.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0005.jpg Vern On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Usually the easiest way to find what band and band segment it are on is to look at the Channel Elements, the small cans in the exciter and receiver. They unplug. A label on the top of the cans gives its frequency. However, to prevent them being put back on the same freq some pull the elements. Most always one can get to them thru a panel behind the receiver. Same with some exciters. There were 3 ranges for VHF as someone stated. Wonder what the heat sink looks like. The continuous duty has large 17w x 7h x 6 deep heat sink. Otherwise it is built into the main chassis or is tube amp. Mot made a number of variations of these. They do make good repeaters. Just takes some work. One clue if it is a repeater and not a base station is the card cage usually has a Squelch Gate card. This controls rx to tx keying. I think others gave you lots of good info with the repeater builders site. The power supply tells lots
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Tom, Some good points. Hard to beat a Micor. If many repeater builders really knew much they would be using the Micor or the like instead of the plug and easy way out. I like the Kensu. Thought would add something. How about Kensucom, hi. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: tallinson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 01:43:36 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of through a repair shop. The missing PA power leads are a bit unusual but, at most, five minutes to replace them. If you want to make a repeater, you don't need an antenna relay but they can be found too, if needed. I wish I had a dollar for every ham repeater that is made from converted mobiles, these are ALL intermittent duty transmitters. With reduced power and a cooling fan (mainly for peace of mind) this station will be more reliable than 80% of the so called continuous duty ham gear out there. I'd take that station anyday in preference to a Kensu desktop repeater. The receiver is easily converted with a recoiled RF front end available very reasonably. Your biggest challenge is going to be that HIGH split transmitter. Tom --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intermittent duty base station that has been robbed of parts. No channel elements in the receiver, probably none in the transmitter. No station control card. No high current leads to the final. As noted by earlier posts this is not a unit that will handle long periods of transmission. Also no antenna relay (not that you need one for what you want to do). Given the number of missing parts I would be very suspicious of the overall condition of the unit. Milt N3LTQ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help How about some pictures? They are a little big and some are redundant but hopefully it should give you guys some idea of what I have. http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0001.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0002.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0003.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0004.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0005.jpg Vern On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Usually the easiest way to find what band and band segment it are on is to look at the Channel Elements, the small cans in the exciter and receiver. They unplug. A label on the top of the cans gives its frequency. However, to prevent them being put back on the same freq some pull the elements. Most always one can get to them thru a panel behind the receiver. Same with some exciters. There were 3 ranges for VHF as someone stated. Wonder what the heat sink looks like. The continuous duty has large 17w x 7h x 6 deep heat sink. Otherwise it is built into the main chassis or is tube amp. Mot made a number of variations of these. They do make good repeaters. Just takes some work. One clue if it is a repeater and not a base station is the card cage usually has a Squelch Gate card. This controls rx to tx keying. I think others gave you lots of good info with the repeater builders site. The power supply tells lots. Might describe it. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/28 Fri PM 01:19:10 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help I have a Compa Station with the model number C73RTB-1106C. I am looking for some help figuring out what this is split, etc and how to make it into a repeater. First things first is that there is no power leads hooked up except for the one to the control board box. I can see where there are places for heavy cables from the power supply to the transmitter. Is there seperate power for the receiver or does that come from the ribbon cable? How can I get this thing to key up to see what the TX frequency is? If I find out the TX freq can I sweep the recv side with a freq generator to figure out where it opens up? Are these crystal controlled or can they be adjusted to get the right frequency pair? Thanks, Vern Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. Yahoo! Groups Links Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO
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Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. You might not be, and I would not be concerned if I had the station or was considering it. I do not know what the original poster's level of experience is, thus my comment. If I was looking at this station I would see a good supply of spare parts, and/or a possible conversion to 220 since it reportedly has a high range transmitter. I would not consider this station a good candidate for a first time project. With no channel elements and a high split radio it will be hard to determine if the station has any problems BEFORE an attempt is made to change frequency. Simply grabbing a set of elements and restuffing them is a sure way to add to your overall level of frustration/stress. If I were going to try to do anything with this unit I would want to find a set of channel elements in the high range. I would then attempt to get the station working in the range that it was built for. Find and if possible fix any issues that are present. Determine what is needed to convert to the lower range. THEN AND ONLY THEN would I attempt to change the frequency of the radio. No, changing the frequency range in which the radio operates is not rocket science, it simply takes a service manual, proper test equipment, time, parts, patience, an understanding of what is going on, and a willingness to learn. Now back to repeater-building. MIlt N3LTQ
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Milt, Very good advice. I would not even try to move the unit down with the existing boards if they are the higher split. If going to 222 then would be something to start with. If putting on 2 meters would be nice to pick up a mobile for 136-150 range and simple unplug the boards...well exciter and receiver, and remove these from the mobile. They just plug in. Of course finding a 136-150 is difficult, but Canada did use this band more and I see other equipment like the GEs in this range. Milt, you and others on this board, and I started messing with the Micor a few years back. It is obvious from all the reply's that many have worked with the Micor. The commercial guys couple decades back. Of course then we could not afford the $3000+ for one so many used Motracs. It was fun working with the Micor. Once got a manual (Mot made excellent manuals) one could really work with them, learned how to work with them and as with many Hams enjoy this kind of thing. So Vern you got a project, if you want, that can lead to a good repeater. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 06:19:09 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. You might not be, and I would not be concerned if I had the station or was considering it. I do not know what the original poster's level of experience is, thus my comment. If I was looking at this station I would see a good supply of spare parts, and/or a possible conversion to 220 since it reportedly has a high range transmitter. I would not consider this station a good candidate for a first time project. With no channel elements and a high split radio it will be hard to determine if the station has any problems BEFORE an attempt is made to change frequency. Simply grabbing a set of elements and restuffing them is a sure way to add to your overall level of frustration/stress. If I were going to try to do anything with this unit I would want to find a set of channel elements in the high range. I would then attempt to get the station working in the range that it was built for. Find and if possible fix any issues that are present. Determine what is needed to convert to the lower range. THEN AND ONLY THEN would I attempt to change the frequency of the radio. No, changing the frequency range in which the radio operates is not rocket science, it simply takes a service manual, proper test equipment, time, parts, patience, an understanding of what is going on, and a willingness to learn. Now back to repeater-building. MIlt N3LTQ Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
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The reason the power supply leads are missing is that I got it from the local used supply store. They had taken every thing out of the cabinet and were going to sell the cabinet and power supply seperate and probably throw the rest out. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:43:36 - tallinson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of through a repair shop. The missing PA power leads are a bit unusual but, at most, five minutes to replace them. If you want to make a repeater, you don't need an antenna relay but they can be found too, if needed. I wish I had a dollar for every ham repeater that is made from converted mobiles, these are ALL intermittent duty transmitters. With reduced power and a cooling fan (mainly for peace of mind) this station will be more reliable than 80% of the so called continuous duty ham gear out there. I'd take that station anyday in preference to a Kensu desktop repeater. The receiver is easily converted with a recoiled RF front end available very reasonably. Your biggest challenge is going to be that HIGH split transmitter. Tom --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intermittent duty base station that has been robbed of parts. No channel elements in the receiver, probably none in the transmitter. No station control card. No high current leads to the final. As noted by earlier posts this is not a unit that will handle long periods of transmission. Also no antenna relay (not that you need one for what you want to do). Given the number of missing parts I would be very suspicious of the overall condition of the unit. Milt N3LTQ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help How about some pictures? They are a little big and some are redundant but hopefully it should give you guys some idea of what I have. http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0001.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0002.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0003.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0004.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0005.jpg Vern On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Usually the easiest way to find what band and band segment it are on is to look at the Channel Elements, the small cans in the exciter and receiver. They unplug. A label on the top of the cans gives its frequency. However, to prevent them being put back on the same freq some pull the elements. Most always one can get to them thru a panel behind the receiver. Same with some exciters. There were 3 ranges for VHF as someone stated. Wonder what the heat sink looks like. The continuous duty has large 17w x 7h x 6 deep heat sink. Otherwise it is built into the main chassis or is tube amp. Mot made a number of variations of these. They do make good repeaters. Just takes some work. One clue if it is a repeater and not a base station is the card cage usually has a Squelch Gate card. This controls rx to tx keying. I think others gave you lots of good info with the repeater builders site. The power supply tells lots. Might describe it. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/28 Fri PM 01:19:10 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help I have a Compa Station with the model number C73RTB-1106C. I am looking for some help figuring out what this is split, etc and how to make it into a repeater. First things first is that there is no power leads hooked up except for the one to the control board box. I can see where there are places for heavy cables from the power supply to the transmitter. Is there seperate power for the receiver or does that come from the ribbon cable? How can I get this thing to key up to see what the TX frequency is? If I find out the TX freq can I sweep the recv side with a freq generator to figure out where it opens up? Are these crystal controlled or can they be adjusted to get the right frequency pair? Thanks, Vern Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. Yahoo! Groups Links
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I wouldn't mind having it on 220 if nothing else then for the learning experiance of doing it. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:25:10 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milt, Very good advice. I would not even try to move the unit down with the existing boards if they are the higher split. If going to 222 then would be something to start with. If putting on 2 meters would be nice to pick up a mobile for 136-150 range and simple unplug the boards...well exciter and receiver, and remove these from the mobile. They just plug in. Of course finding a 136-150 is difficult, but Canada did use this band more and I see other equipment like the GEs in this range. Milt, you and others on this board, and I started messing with the Micor a few years back. It is obvious from all the reply's that many have worked with the Micor. The commercial guys couple decades back. Of course then we could not afford the $3000+ for one so many used Motracs. It was fun working with the Micor. Once got a manual (Mot made excellent manuals) one could really work with them, learned how to work with them and as with many Hams enjoy this kind of thing. So Vern you got a project, if you want, that can lead to a good repeater. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 06:19:09 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. You might not be, and I would not be concerned if I had the station or was considering it. I do not know what the original poster's level of experience is, thus my comment. If I was looking at this station I would see a good supply of spare parts, and/or a possible conversion to 220 since it reportedly has a high range transmitter. I would not consider this station a good candidate for a first time project. With no channel elements and a high split radio it will be hard to determine if the station has any problems BEFORE an attempt is made to change frequency. Simply grabbing a set of elements and restuffing them is a sure way to add to your overall level of frustration/stress. If I were going to try to do anything with this unit I would want to find a set of channel elements in the high range. I would then attempt to get the station working in the range that it was built for. Find and if possible fix any issues that are present. Determine what is needed to convert to the lower range. THEN AND ONLY THEN would I attempt to change the frequency of the radio. No, changing the frequency range in which the radio operates is not rocket science, it simply takes a service manual, proper test equipment, time, parts, patience, an understanding of what is going on, and a willingness to learn. Now back to repeater-building. MIlt N3LTQ Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
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Vern, There are basically 2 power leads from the power supply. 1 is a multi-wire cable that plugs into the card cage usually and the other is a large, #12, two wire that goes from the heavy terminal on the rear of the supply to the main chassis set of terminals, usually in the upper right. The multi-wire cable hopefully is there. It is just wirings coming out of the PS chassis and carries the low current 9.6V and 13.8V. The larger 2 wire is easy to make and supplies the power for the PA. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/29 Sat AM 07:51:35 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help The reason the power supply leads are missing is that I got it from the local used supply store. They had taken every thing out of the cabinet and were going to sell the cabinet and power supply seperate and probably throw the rest out. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:43:36 - tallinson2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of through a repair shop. The missing PA power leads are a bit unusual but, at most, five minutes to replace them. If you want to make a repeater, you don't need an antenna relay but they can be found too, if needed. I wish I had a dollar for every ham repeater that is made from converted mobiles, these are ALL intermittent duty transmitters. With reduced power and a cooling fan (mainly for peace of mind) this station will be more reliable than 80% of the so called continuous duty ham gear out there. I'd take that station anyday in preference to a Kensu desktop repeater. The receiver is easily converted with a recoiled RF front end available very reasonably. Your biggest challenge is going to be that HIGH split transmitter. Tom --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Milt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intermittent duty base station that has been robbed of parts. No channel elements in the receiver, probably none in the transmitter. No station control card. No high current leads to the final. As noted by earlier posts this is not a unit that will handle long periods of transmission. Also no antenna relay (not that you need one for what you want to do). Given the number of missing parts I would be very suspicious of the overall condition of the unit. Milt N3LTQ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help How about some pictures? They are a little big and some are redundant but hopefully it should give you guys some idea of what I have. http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0001.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0002.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0003.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0004.jpg http://www.highwayusa.com/motorola/pict0005.jpg Vern On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vern, Usually the easiest way to find what band and band segment it are on is to look at the Channel Elements, the small cans in the exciter and receiver. They unplug. A label on the top of the cans gives its frequency. However, to prevent them being put back on the same freq some pull the elements. Most always one can get to them thru a panel behind the receiver. Same with some exciters. There were 3 ranges for VHF as someone stated. Wonder what the heat sink looks like. The continuous duty has large 17w x 7h x 6 deep heat sink. Otherwise it is built into the main chassis or is tube amp. Mot made a number of variations of these. They do make good repeaters. Just takes some work. One clue if it is a repeater and not a base station is the card cage usually has a Squelch Gate card. This controls rx to tx keying. I think others gave you lots of good info with the repeater builders site. The power supply tells lots. Might describe it. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/03/28 Fri PM 01:19:10 CDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help I have a Compa Station with the model number C73RTB-1106C. I am looking for some help figuring out what this is split, etc and how to make it into a repeater. First things first is that there is no power leads hooked up except for the one to the control board box. I can see where there are places for heavy cables from the power supply to the transmitter. Is there seperate power for the receiver or does that come from the ribbon cable? How can
