Re: [Repeater-Builder] Deviation

2005-12-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Ken Arck wrote: At 05:30 PM 12/2/2005 -0500, you wrote: Shouldn't the touch tone pad tone be set at the maximum deviation or nearly so? ---I've always found around 3 Khz to be the correct point for most decoders/controllers. You mileage may, of course, vary. Those are steady and not

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Tim Horvath wrote: I have a repeater in a remote aera with no phone service. Can I use a Cell Phone and interface it to my cat-1000 controller? If so How? I want it to receive and send calls. Thanks, Tim If your CAT-1000 controller has a regular autopatch on it, something like this might

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Mike Morris
At 10:02 PM 12/2/05, you wrote: I have a repeater in a remote aera with no phone service. Can I use a Cell Phone and interface it to my cat-1000 controller? If so How? I want it to receive and send calls. Thanks, Tim There is no reason that you can't link a phone line into your repeater.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor Tuning tools

2005-12-03 Thread Mark A. Holman
Tuning tools if you live near a big city unless you prefer give Mouser, Digi-Key a try. forget the local cell-shack they sell a pocket protector set which is ok but I think you might find GC electronics makes a pro set I won a tool at a christmas party 2 yrs ago but never had to use it

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Mathew Quaife
Very interesting, wonder how long this has been on the market? I was told about a year ago that it could not be done? As we learn something new each day. A very interesting product, could come in handy for a lot of my people whom are tied to a wire due to the coverage in their area. Thanks for

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Bob M.
Another product is called a CellSocket. I don't think it accepts as many phones as the one pointed out by other posters, but it's been around for at least 3 years, maybe longer. Depending on the phone, there were some things it would not do, such as access voice-mail or do caller-ID. Motorola and

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Eric Lemmon
Tim, Several burglar alarm manufacturers offer a duplex wireless link that is essentially the guts of a bare-bones cellular phone in a metal box with all of the audio and control lines brought out to a connector. Such devices are similar in concept to the data radios that are used in SCADA

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Digest Number 3483

2005-12-03 Thread Dave Frechette
Some ham friends of mine have these devices and they work great for just the thing you want to do.Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com wrote: There are 3 messages in this issue.Topics in this digest:1. Re: DeviationFrom: Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>2. Re: Wireless Auto PatchFrom: Nate Duehr

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Deviation

2005-12-03 Thread scomind
Hi Chas, Shouldn't the touch tone pad tone be set at the maximum deviation or nearly so? No, and here's the explanation: 1. The pre-emphasis in your transmitter causes the tone with the higher freq to deviate more than the other tone(forexample, the 1477 Hz tone will deviate more

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking for data on old heliax

2005-12-03 Thread Jeff DePolo
Hey Jeff- Just last year I had a similar problem. The first thing we did was look through the old engineering data for the site. In most cases, the sample lines should all be the same length, so if you shoot the lines to the other tower(s) with the TDR you can compute your own VF for

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Wireless Auto Patch

2005-12-03 Thread Coy Hilton
Mathew, These things in general have been on the market sence before 1995. I was a hardware and software design engineer for a well known alarm company back then and we had a product that would do the same thing for the Motorola bag phone One could use the bag phone as a secondary phone line