RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM
check all your cabling and the cans, all it takes is a bad connector or coax to shut your system down, that fact you can get in to it at 2 miles tells me your rx amp has failed, or there is a short in the cabling between the module and antenna... 1 lightning hit is all it takes to kill a system.

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread ErnestK
Does it receive better in low power than it does in full power? If so, the problem is desense. What is your antenna/duplexer situation? Ernie W6KAP --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Lot k6...@... wrote: Hi Everyone, Our club bought a Dstar Repeater (IDRP4000v IDRP2C). For some

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Gary Pearce KN4AQ
At 01:14 AM 4/29/2010, Lot wrote: Hi Everyone, Our club bought a Dstar Repeater (IDRP4000v IDRP2C). For some reason the receive sensitivity is very poor. ... Lot / K6IRF http://www.harpusa.orghttp://www.harpusa.org Here are some tips I've picked up from the people who have successfully

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Steve Bosshard (NU5D)
Take a peek at this for some very basic testing techniques. http://www.bosshardradio.com/dstarrepeatertesting/ On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Lot k6...@yahoo.com wrote: , We decided to send the IDRP4000v to Icom for service and they told us that all is well and found nothing wrong with

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread michaelcarey69
Hi Lot, The issue with the Icom UHF repeater hardware is that the receiver has poor selectivity (immunity to off frequency and out of band transmissions) and poor sensitivity. You need a lot of RF separation between the transmitter and receiver ports... 100dB or better is what you need. You

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Shanon KA8SPW
Lot, Check this site out: http://utahvhfs.org/dstar_repeater_installation.html ALL of the internal RF cables MUST be replaced!!! EVERY repeater they made and make uses crap coax!! Good Luck! Shanon KA8SPW Lot wrote: Hi Everyone, Our club bought a Dstar Repeater (IDRP4000v IDRP2C).

Re: [SPAM] Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Bill
In message 4bd9780c.4070...@sbcglobal.net, Shanon KA8SPW ka8...@sbcglobal.net writes Lot, Check this site out: http://utahvhfs.org/dstar_repeater_installation.html ALL of the internal RF cables MUST be replaced!!! EVERY repeater they made and make uses crap coax!! Has anyone raised this and

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Hamvention D-STAR Activities

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Thompson
D-STAR at Dayton Hamvention During the Hamvention several D-STAR events resources will be available. D-STAR Digital Voice repeaters in Dayton are sponsored by DARA (Dayton Amateur Radio Association), the host of the Hamvention. Dayton D-STAR Repeaters 147.105 (+600 KHz) W8BI C

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Lot Marquez
Hello Everyone,     Thanks to all the information that you guys provided. This is very much appreciated. We will look into this and hopefully it would work out. A few months ago, the same digital repeater was setup in Mt. Lukens in Los Angeles and in the same setup where an analog

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread john_ke5c
A few months ago, the same digital repeater was setup in Mt. Lukens in Los Angeles and in the same setup where an analog repeater used to be. Right away we noticed the difference in receive sensitivity. We made some test at a low level location and that is where we realized that even in