Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Chuck Kelsey
Cut 'em for the longer length and try it. If it works with good VSWR, you're done. If not, cut it shorter and re-connect the connectors and measure the VSWR again. Then report back so Kevin can update the info on the web page. Chuck WB2EDV - Original Message - From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
mch wrote: >If you're low and slow below 200', you had better be near an airport or >heliport or you're most likely in violation of FAA rules anyway. ;-> > > Heh heh. Very true, very true... 1000' AGL above populated areas. But... as the joke goes... There are those who've had engine failure

RE: [Repeater-Builder] duplicate posts

2004-09-29 Thread Joe Pedulla
Me too -Original Message- From: Q [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 18:56 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] duplicate posts Is everyone getting multiple messages from Yahoogroups or is it just me? Yahoo! Groups Links

[Repeater-Builder] Re: 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Steve
No, authored by the ARRL HQ staff. Copyright 1972cost a whopping $3.00 back then... Steve, KE4MOB --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Neil McKie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that the book written by Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF and > Mike Morris, WA6ILQ? > > Neil - WA6KLA >

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Paul Finch
Hello I am selling a customer a 180 foot Rohn SSV tower, it will be located 4 miles due West of one end of the West runway. The FAA would not give the total 200 feet of airspace I requested, said planes would hit it at that height so they gave me 180 feet. 20 feet, seems kinda crazy to me but th

[Repeater-Builder] Astron RM-50M-BB - battery size?

2004-09-29 Thread georgiaskywarn
Right now I am running an external charger for my batteries and am considering switching to my internal backup feature on the RM-50M- BB. I have a 50amp breaker ready to go but have a couple of questions; 1) I may be getting a 100ah battery soon. Will the supply handle that? 2) I have not had

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread mch
Paul Finch wrote: > > 20 feet, seems kinda crazy to me but that's the Government for ya! Yep. They probably went by the slide slope (or whatever the other side of that is called - the rise slope?) and it came out to 190 feet at that distance. > They also required that it have red lights at > n

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Tony lelieveld
If the "glide slope" is at a height of 190 ft at a distance of 4 miles from the runway, I will put in a prayer for all the poor pilots relying on this ILS system hi hi. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.742 /

[Repeater-Builder] MVP Frequency Range

2004-09-29 Thread Laryn Lohman
Hi all, what frequency range is "92" for an MVP? The highest I see in my docs is 91, which is 494-512 mc. Thanks Laryn K8TVZ 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

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Neil McKie
I was wondering, Thanks, Neil Steve wrote: > > No, authored by the ARRL HQ staff. Copyright 1972cost a > whopping $3.00 back then... > > Steve, KE4MOB > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Neil McKie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Is that the book written by Bi

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Benjamin Naber
isn't it: x[ft]=234/F[MHz] Then: x[ft]*Vf? NOT 2 fourty-six/F[MHz] --- Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm thinking about building this: > > http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/exposeddipole.html > > However, I'm having trouble reproducing the > calculation that yields a > 63.8

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Mr. Edgar McKinney
Paul Finch wrote: > Ed, > > Maybe a dumb question but what is the tower made out of that does not accept > paint? Its a Rhone self supporting but is stainless. It is also guided for extra strength. Gewts windy at the site as well as ice. The flood lights are on only when there is night time ma

[Repeater-Builder] Re: [Repeaters] MSF-5000 programming

2004-09-29 Thread Kevin Berlen
Thanks to alll who replied to this question. I programmed the station last night and tuned it up. It was equipped with the "internal duplexer" option. The transmit filter proved somewhat difficult to tune, even following the alignment procedure in the book and using the alignment probe. Thanks agai

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Mr. Edgar McKinney
mch wrote: > Mr. Edgar McKinney wrote: > > > > The painting was wavered in our case cause of the tower material could > > not be painted. > > > > At each 50' and 100' are stable reds on with flash strobes for day > > use. > > If you have daytime strobes, that's the reason the paint isn't requir

Re: [Repeater-Builder] 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Paul Kelley
Nope. 234 would be used to calculate half of a dipole or perhaps the radiator for a ground plane. That's because these antennas don't resonate on the desired frequency when cut to a free space half or quarter wavelength. I'll leave the *reason* for that to someone else, as I haven't thought ab

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Tony leveled wrote: > > If the "glide slope" is at a height of 190 ft at a distance of 4 miles from > the runway, I will put in a prayer for all the poor pilots relying on this > ILS system hi hi. Standard ILS glideslope is 3 degrees, but they vary. That angle is from the ILS transmitter which

RE: [Repeater-Builder] duplicate posts

2004-09-29 Thread Ted Leonard
I am getting 3 copies of each post as well. Ted -Original Message- From: Joe Pedulla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:29 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] duplicate posts Me too -Original Message- From: Q [mail

RE: [Repeater-Builder] duplicate posts

2004-09-29 Thread Tedd Doda
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:00:08 -0400, Ted Leonard wrote: >I am getting 3 copies of each post as well. Just one copy of each message here. Tedd Doda, VE3TJD Lazer Audio and Electronics Baden, Ontario, Canada Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Digest Number 2727

2004-09-29 Thread Clarke, Tom VX-20 OPS
Yep! That is probably "way" outside the "protected zone"!! Tom/W4OKW ---snip If the "glide slope" is at a height of 190 ft at a distance of 4 miles from the runway, I will put in a prayer for all the poor pilots relying on this ILS system hi hi.

RE: [Repeater-Builder] MVP Frequency Range

2004-09-29 Thread Juber, Stanley C.
Laryn, "92" is 806-870 MHz. Stan -Original Message- From: Laryn Lohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:16 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] MVP Frequency Range Hi all, what frequency range is "92" for an MVP? The hig

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Paul Finch
Hello, Did I mention this tower is going to be 4 miles due West of the South end of the runway, in other misspelled words, perpendicular to the runway. Thank God for spel chek! Paul -Original Message- From: mch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:05 PM To: Rep

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 4-bay dipole array harness lengths

2004-09-29 Thread Jim B.
Steve wrote: > No, authored by the ARRL HQ staff. Well, that explains a lot...=o) -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL Copyright 1972cost a whopping > $3.00 back then... > > Steve, KE4MOB > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Neil McKie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Is that the book wri

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Best way to adjust dev?

2004-09-29 Thread Tim S.
Thanks Jim. Great explanation. -Tim -Original Message- From: Jim B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave the tone turned off first. If you have any way to put a local mic on the tx, or generate audio DIRECTLY into the mic input, set the deviation on the transmitter for maximum deviation,

[Repeater-Builder] want to learn about electronics?

2004-09-29 Thread Benjamin Naber
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Best way to adjust dev?

2004-09-29 Thread Jim B.
Tim S. wrote: > What's the best way to adjust the transmit deviation for a repeater. > > I was thinking of doing it this way. > > Setup the service monitor for duplex mode and hook the cable up to the > antenna port on the duplexer. > > Manually key the transmitter and adjust the PL for .6 kHz

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Best way to adjust dev?

2004-09-29 Thread Bob Dengler
At 9/28/2004 03:35 PM, you wrote: >What's the best way to adjust the transmit deviation for a repeater. Depends on what your goals are. If you're not highly bandwidth-constrained (not on a 12.5 kHz UHF or 15 kHz 2 meter channel) & are running unlimited hifi audio, you'll want to adjust for 1:1

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Mike WA6ILQ
Low and slow? yeah. Engine failure, yeah. I was glad that I wasn't in the aircraft of one that I saw... Years ago I was a crew member on a fireworks show at a county fair and, yes, we had all the paperwork i's dotted and all the t's crossed. This fair has been an annual for over 50 years. Acr

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Tower Painting and Lighting

2004-09-29 Thread Steve Grantham
Don't know about that brand, but I believe I understood that energy efficiency was much better on the Red LED beacons than the incandesent beacons. As I recall, from a proposal I received a year or so ago, that a reduced power bill for the Red LED beacons was a selling point. Steve - Origina