Hi Michael-
Last time you & I talked (about 3 months ago) you said you were running
amateur grade gear on your IRLP node at the KOIN-TV tower. Apparently you
recently changed to commercial grade gear, which is a good thing! Also, the
last time you & I talked you REFUSED the suggestion of using c
--- Coy Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Well, you should get it right. It has never been a
> first class
> Technicians license... Or ony class TECHNICIANS
> LICENSE. We who had
> to take the exams to get them knoww what they
> are/were. I still give
> exams for the General Radiotele
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FYI ...
In case you need some info on the ER41 receivers ... I have a
2 inch high pile of GE Datafile ER41 Series Receiver info here.
73,
Happy Bah Hum Bug,
Neil - WA6KLA
Mathew Quaife wrote:
>
> Took the audio from the HI side of the audio pot on the MASTR ER41
> receive
First..Don't be so thin skined, that's where political correctness
came from. This group can be brutal from time to time, but there's
some great help, and a wealth of experiance and knowledge here and
everyone here has gotten nailed from the group and has lived through
it.SO lighten up.
7
Title: Message
To: Friend
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: The 4 candles (this is nice)
I received this and loved it.
Merry
Christmas
and
Happy New Y
Took the audio from the HI side of the audio pot on the MASTR ER41 receiver.
Mathew
>
> At 11:00 PM 12/21/2004 -, you wrote:
> >Is there a way to make the audio coming into the repeater a little
> >more basey, like would adding say a 47 Ohm resister do it. Seems
> >like certain users voic
At 11:00 PM 12/21/2004 -, you wrote:
>Is there a way to make the audio coming into the repeater a little
>more basey, like would adding say a 47 Ohm resister do it. Seems
>like certain users voices are very tinny sounding. Any thoughts.
<---Are you running deemphasis? Sounds like you're
6 kHz?!? I hope you're not on a 15 kHz band with a bandwidth of 18 kHz.
Joe M.
mbloom0947 wrote:
>
> As for the deviation I have measured it with a Motorola Model
> 2600 service monitor at 6 KHz, about the same as other repeaters in
> this area.
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I guess the callsign explains it all.
--- mbloom0947 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>
> John,
>
> Since I am the "guy running the IRLP node" you
> refer to, I thought I
> might take a moment to reply.
>
> The equipment now consists solely of Motorola
> GM300's, not amateur
> grade equip
It's legal in any service. There is no requirement access by by any
particular set of tones. Any CTCSS tone, DCS code, or any other code
(such as LTR, MDC-1200, or anything) is perfectly legal.
Non-standard tones are even part of most commercial repeater
controllers. They almost all support the '
Is there a way to make the audio coming into the repeater a little
more basey, like would adding say a 47 Ohm resister do it. Seems
like certain users voices are very tinny sounding. Any thoughts.
Mathew
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Boyd's 1P controller will fit the bill quite nice,
plus it will give you a measure of dtmf controll
if you want.
http://www.bdenterprises.com/products/
skipp
> "K.Paul Boggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Need some direction and advice. Need a inexpensive
> CW ID device to put on a GMRS rep
It sure is - a mess, that is. Repeated offers to the guy to offer help with
a Service Monitor, etc. have gone rejected. He's using a ham dual-bander
mobile radio at a high-level site, and some of the garbage noise has caused
one of the main local 2-Meter Portland Repeaters to kerchunk continually
I know a repeater that required a tone not implemented in the standard
38 would not make a it too popular but is it legal? I was wondering if
a pair of these on a rcv link would discorage interference.
http://www.com-spec.com/ts64.htm
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John,
Since I am the "guy running the IRLP node" you refer to, I thought I
might take a moment to reply.
The equipment now consists solely of Motorola GM300's, not amateur
grade equipment. For the last six months or more both the 2m and
440 transmitters have had large cavity filters in
Yes they do.
Chuck
WB2EDV
- Original Message -
From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] antenna question for 2M ham. . .
>
>
> Sinclair makes excellent dipoles. We switched to them several years ago
> and never
I'm not sure if you got this email from me or not so sending it again.
Try this .. see if may help you. http://www.krell.com/amateur/RSSVR/RSSVR.html "K.Paul Boggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Need some direction and advice. Need a inexpensiveCW ID device to put on a GMRS repeater(not ashamed
Paul,
Comm Spec has a great little one I have used several times in the past. Go
to
http://www.com-spec.com/id8.htm and check them out.
Paul
-Original Message-
From: K.Paul Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:27 PM
To: repeater
Cc: Repeater-Builder
Subj
Michael,
The GM 300, if I recall correctly, has a small fuse in the main board,
towards one of the back corners. Looks like a resistor (green, I
think). Your RIB probably blew this fuse.
Best,
Ricardo, W3/HK4BHA
-Original Message-
From: mbloom0947 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tues
Need some direction and advice. Need a inexpensive
CW ID device to put on a GMRS repeater(not ashamed
to let others know who is responsible) Need a source and
recommendation. Willing to purchase a used one if any reader
has one for sale.
Have one now, but impossible to identify maker to have i
Hi John,
> "KI4AWK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My questions:
> What kind of cost am I looking at for a repeater pair license?
A no nonsense license runs about $350 to $550 complete,
depending on what you want.
> Does each user need a separate license? cost per user?
No, each user can
I don't know about the present, at one time in the Dallas -
Ft. Worth Texas area, there were two FM broad cast stations 5 MHz
apart ... apparently the amateur community was using a 5.2 MHz
spread on the 440 MHz band.
If someone in Texas could bring this up to date ...
Neil - WA6KL
Sinclair makes excellent dipoles. We switched to them several years ago
and never looked back.
http://www.sinctech.com/
Mike
K6MJU
>
>
> OK.
>
> One of the repeaters I help maintain (145.170 located in
> Connellsville, PA on the mountain) recently lost an antenna in the
> wind storms that hit
Ken,
This can happen when any two transmitters are transmitting at the same
time, 600 khz apart. I've seen it happen to 2 meter repeaters when two uhf
transmitters 600 khz apart are transmitting nearby when the 2 meter system
was up. I've seen it happen near two AM broadcast stations 600 kh
Seasons greetings to you all!
Our club is in the process of moving its repeater and we're going to go with
a new antenna. The problem is, the company who owns the tower has a brand
new Decibels products A711 antenna. "Will this work on the frequency of
145.230Mhz?"
I hope I'm not asking a questio
Seasons greetings to you all!
Our club is in the process of moving its repeater and we're going to go with
a new antenna. The problem is, the company who owns the tower has a brand
new Decibels products A711 antenna. "Will this work on the frequency of
145.230Mhz?"
I hope I'm not asking a questio
Pins on the rear of the radio connector can be set with
software for various functions. You must have these pins
set up for the proper repeater rib connections or you
take a chance on blowing a fuse (link) inside the radio.
If the radio doesn't power up after you remove the rib,
you've got t
Well said. It doesn't take a finely tuned sense of humor to see that my
comment was meant to be funny. If you (as in anyone) didn't get it
immediately, the ;-> should have given it away that I wasn't being
serious. As for my credentials, I am not a professional comedian, so I
can't help you there.
>"kc4ih" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After much head scratching I believe that the
> difference in frequency of the pager transmitter
> of 600 khz is the problem
Head scratching doesn't provide real answers. Are
the paging transmitters running circulators? Are
they licensed for the rated p
A farm is a business. If it's a family farm, the entire family can be
considered employees. Besides, it doesn't take much to get a business
license. There are even public safety entities on the biz band (FDs and
EMS services are considered businesses, too).
The main cost will be for coordination
At 09:19 AM 12/21/04, "Mike Perryman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This was a very historic facility steeped in AM lore..
Yep.
The tower site is a local landmark, just off of Interstate 5, a
few miles from Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm.
KFI moved its transmitter location from downtown Los A
Subject: Motorola GM300 Model M34GMC29C3A UHF 16-channel Radio
The radio was powering on and off ok using front panel volume control-
switch. When I plugged a Motorola RIB into it for programming the
power blinked off and I can't turn it on. Any suggestions?
Michael W7RAT
Yaho
Thank you, sir!
Neil - WA6KLA
"Buley, Kenneth L (GE Consumer & Industrial)" wrote:
>
> No, you didn't !!! ;>)
>
> Kenneth Buley
> Bullitt County DES CD-2
> Bullitt County Red Cross/Certified ECRVDriver/Operator BC-6
> Bullitt County ARES\RACES Coordinator KY4DES
>
> -Original
OK.
One of the repeaters I help maintain (145.170 located in
Connellsville, PA on the mountain) recently lost an antenna in the
wind storms that hit us around the beginning of December.
Antenna we had on the tower was a Celwave PD340-3 (If you have never
seen a 4 bay folded dipole with the t
Almost the same problem in the greater Portland, Oregon area. One
2 meter systems' receiver was a half mile away as two onsite paging
transmitters were 600 kHz apart and 75 yards from the repeater site.
A few years later, one of the paging transmitters was shut down and
the repeater
Thanks a ton!! Not sure what I will use it for, thought of maybe
ATV (FM modulation scheme)repeater or something... in on 1.2 and out on
900. I didn't really give it much though, especially since the elusive
docs and what-not. I have a 75 watt PA for 800 from a Micor that I
had considered co
Try emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Dave got one running on 927Mhz and I think
he was able to get 300 watts out of it. The Nuke PA would do 300 watts,
but lasted much longer at 275 or, better yet, 250 watts.
Do you need cavities?
73, Joe, k1ike
At 01:06 PM 12/21/2004, you wrote:
>Joe,
>Do you h
Joe,
Do you have any info on the Motorola Nucleus gear... I have a high power
PA for 900MHz that I thought about trying to make use of, but can find no
docs...
TIA,
mike
At 12:56 PM 12/21/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>The paging companies were more up to date here in the Northeast, Motorola
>Nuc
The paging companies were more up to date here in the Northeast, Motorola
Nucleus and Glenayre/Quintron equipment. Some were capable of up to 16
frequencies in the same band.
Joe
At 10:23 AM 12/21/2004, you wrote:
>Except that the vast majority of VHF transmitters/networks weren't
>really cap
No, you didn't !!! ;>)
Kenneth Buley
Bullitt County DES CD-2
Bullitt County Red Cross/Certified ECRVDriver/Operator BC-6
Bullitt County ARES\RACES Coordinator KY4DES
-Original Message-
From: Neil McKie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:28 PM
To: Repeater
If the proposed operation will be used to conduct the business
activities of your farm, then you are eligible.
James
Steve Bosshard (NU5D) wrote:
Are
you eligible under part 90 to hold a
license in the Business Radio Service, ie, 90.75 a 1, statement of
eligibility?
sorry for the double post must be keyboard bounce or something...
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Subject: [Repeater-Builder] KFI down tower pics
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Cute ... I saw that too but declined to comment ...
Neil
JOHN MACKEY wrote:
>
> Hmmm, after 20 years of ham radio, past experience in commercial
> 2 way & currently working as an Chief Engineer in the radio
> broadcast field and possessing my Extra Amateur and GROL, I don't
> know wha
Skip, et all...
If you would like a little history into the background of KFI the following
is something that was posted the other day for folks in "da biz"...
follow the link at the end for many interesting pics. This was a very
historic facility steeped in AM lore..
mike
KFI(AM) TOWER COLL
Sounds like a similar problem here in Portland, Oregon.
We have a guy running an IRLP node here on what is commonly thought of as 2
meter simplex frequencies. The station is on a broadcast tower with high
elevation running about 375 watts ERP!!! Mobiles 100 miles away can clearly
hear the IRLP
The (former) First & Second Class FCC licenses you are referring to weren't
conbined into the "general class technicians license" (it sounds like you are
confising the names of amateur & commercial licenses). Rather, they were
combined into the "General Radiotelephone Operator License" (GROL) whi
Skip, et all...
If you would like a little history into the background of KFI the following
is something that was posted the other day for folks in "da biz"...
follow the link at the end for many interesting pics. This was a very
historic facility steeped in AM lore..
mike
KFI(AM) TOWER COLL
kc4ih wrote:
>
> How true and the same is being seen here. With the reduced activity
> we are seeing some hams come back to the 146.640 repeater. We can
> thank cell phones for the demise of the pagers. Thank you for you
> input on the situation.
> Ken
>
Yes, I do hope that those transmitte
For those of you who want a closer look at
the downed kfi (Los Angles) tower.
http://sakrison.com/radio/KFItowercollapse.html
enjoy
skipp
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Thank you John! Those replies are the very reason people hesitate
posting to groups such as this. I missed only 2 questions on the
1st class test and none on my advanced ham test. I don't think I
have to prove my credentials before posting but there they are. I
appreciate everyones input,
How true and the same is being seen here. With the reduced activity
we are seeing some hams come back to the 146.640 repeater. We can
thank cell phones for the demise of the pagers. Thank you for you
input on the situation.
Ken
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--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, JOHN MACKEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hmmm, after 20 years of ham radio, past experience in commercial 2
way &
> currently working as an Chief Engineer in the radio broadcast
field and
> possessing my Extra Amateur and GROL, I don't know what a "FCC
I think that most of us knew what he meant.
Everybody just loves a wise ass, as if it's not intimidating enough to get
on this reflector and ask a question. I'm really surprised that you two
don't have all of your glorious credentials listed in your signature at the
end of your postings so that
Except that the vast majority of VHF transmitters/networks weren't
really capable of multi-freq on the fly as you describe. At least around
here, anyway, they were virtually all Micor PURC stations.
And most sites would not have allowed the transmitters to remain without
cavites anyway.
--
Jim
You will find less and less narrow band cavities on paging transmitters
lately. As the paging industry slowly goes into their death spiral of
loosing customers, they no longer need 2, 4 or more transmitters at each
site to deal with the capacity of pagers out there. What some companies
are d
All paging transmitters involved should have narrow bandpass cavities
and circulators on their outputs. That's usually considered a must at
any site. If the paging company isn't willing to spend the money for
that, then they aren't to serious about staying in business.
The good news is that VHF
Dear John
You may find it worth while to call me at
800.298.2850
We are in this business and understand the
"Battelfield Logistics"
73
Ed Folta K9QPJ
President
Com/Rad Inc. http://www.com-rad.com
- Original Message -
From:
John
The same type acceptance rules that you mention for GMRS also apply to a
part 90 repeater. Home built repeaters do not carry a type acceptance for
part 90.
The only service that can use equipment that is not type accepted is the
amateur radio service and possibly the federal services suc
We have a problem here in Temple, Texas where one paging carrier operates a
152 system and another has 157 about a mile North of the 152 site. I cannot
remember the exact frequencies, but 3 times one minus 2 times the other hit
147.240. This only happened when both paging transmitters were activ
Excellent reply, Eric.
I worked for several paging companies for about 10
years. Although several problems I found in the past
were caused by the paging company, just as many were
found to be shortcomings in the repeater equipment or
faulty hardware on the tower.
Like you said, we really need
Are you eligible under part 90 to hold a
license in the Business Radio Service, ie, 90.75 a 1, statement of eligibility?
From: KI4AWK
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004
5:55 AM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Advice
on
I am a ham who is contemplating building a
business-band repeater. I have a few questions that maybe you guys can answer
and save me hours of reading and searching.
I want to do this so that my family can stay in
touch. The business license would be in the name of the family farm.
I k
Maybe it's like a "Grade A Ham"? ;->
Joe M.
JOHN MACKEY wrote:
>
> Hmmm, after 20 years of ham radio, past experience in commercial 2 way &
> currently working as an Chief Engineer in the radio broadcast field and
> possessing my Extra Amateur and GROL, I don't know what a "FCC 1st class
> lice
And pray you don't cause interference with any other repeaters.
Joe M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> If all that fails then screw the repeater co-ordinator and change
> your split.
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Hmmm, after 20 years of ham radio, past experience in commercial 2 way &
currently working as an Chief Engineer in the radio broadcast field and
possessing my Extra Amateur and GROL, I don't know what a "FCC 1st class
licensed ham" is!!
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Received: Mon, 20 Dec 200
Ken the problem is not your equipment but simply a problem with the
commercial pagers. Paging Xmiters are know for there sloppy transmissions.
If you have access to a spectrum analyzer that is well calibrated go to the
site and check their transmissions for bandwidth and see if they are within
r
Ken,
Please advise exactly what frequencies these pager transmitters are
operating on. There are a number of possibilities for intermod, but
knowing the offending frequencies is crucial to a solution.
Less than a mile from my home station, there is a hilltop site at which
two high-power (3,500
-- Original Message --
Received: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:54:16 PM CST
From: "kc4ih" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SNIP
> virtually useless. After much head scratching I believe that the
> difference in frequency of the pager transmitter of 600 khz is the
> problem but have no idea how to solve the pro
And I spent 10 years in the 70's building the GE E-60-CP's and the D-
series of diesel/electrics here in Erie,Pa...gee,maybe thats why I like
those MastrII's s much?!!? Addicted to gold anodizing I guess...or
is it in my veins?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 12/20/2004 7:4
We have 146.04/.64 repeater on a nearby mountain top. It worked
great for years with a range of 100 miles or more. Since the phone
company and a pager company installed their high power transmitters
near the site of the repeater (within 100 yards) the repeater is
virtually useless. After muc
You are right. The crystal oscillator (channel element) noise is
multiplied up in the GE multiplier exciter. But the same thing applies to
a GE PLL exciter. The phase noise of reference oscillator (channel
element) is also multiplied up, it's just not done in the same
fashion.
Noi
Nope – the
“repeater fairy” came by and left this on my doorstep… Early Christmas present! J
Mark – N9WYS
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Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004
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To:
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Subject: RE:
Bob,
A bandpass filter should follow the duplexer, so that it does not affect
the impedance matches between the transmit and receive cavities of the
duplexer, and to the antenna.
In each of the cases where I added bandpass cavities on the receive
side, it was to limit the bandwidth going to an R
I sure hope you did not pay the TKR-830 price for a TKR-820
Mike
-- Original message -- > > Well, gang. I finally have the monster in my hot little hands!! And I find > it is NOT a TKR-830, but rather a TKR-820... From reading the > Repeater-Builder's web page, I see
Instead of deviating the crystal, How about generating a super stable
VCO using a PLL that has say a 5 second lock time instead of the
typical 2mS lock time running all the time, this could even be
frequency locked to a 10MHz source such as those found on GPS
recievers.
Then to modulate it, we wo
Here is a Fact, The GE PLL exciter is about 20db quieter than a
multiplied exciter, very likely for the reason stated below.
Think about it this way. To multiply a crystal frequency you have to
have harmonics.(noise)..okay you multiply that and get even more
noise..well you amplify each ti
Joe, youre right about the error in PPM. BUT taking a crystal and
deviding it also devides the error in PPM by the same amount and
multiply it you Multiply by the same factor so the reletive error is
the same in PPM. A 12 MHZ crystal with a 2PPM error will be off by
24 Hz. Take that same crys
Hi Scott
Thanks for the reply Kevin-
---Subject repeaters will have
to remain unnamed as I currently enjoy a good relationship with their
point of origin and I want very much to keep the situation that way. I
will say however that transmitter circuit wise , they are es
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