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

2010-04-28 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.

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.org Here are some tips I've picked up from the people who have successfully op

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 wrote: > , > We decided to send the IDRP4000v to Icom for service and they told us > that all is well and found nothing wrong with it. > > Lot

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: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . .

2010-04-29 Thread Lot Marquez
will look for a better duplexer and see if things will get better.      Thanks!    de Lot / K6IRF   http://www.harpusa.org     --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Shanon KA8SPW wrote: From: Shanon KA8SPW Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dstar Repeater receive is bad . . To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu

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

2010-05-03 Thread John Lloyd
The Icom repeater receiver has very poor selectivity and we found out that we needed to install band pass cavities between the receiver and the duplexer so that the receiver could hear weak signals. You can verify this by monitoring the RSSI port on the receiver. Better yet, perform the NU5D mo

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

2010-04-29 Thread Bill
In message <4bd9780c.4070...@sbcglobal.net>, Shanon KA8SPW 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 the other iss