[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

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 f

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 (for example, the 1477 Hz tone will deviate mo

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 <[EMA

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 syst

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 N

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 f

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 lately

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. Besi

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] 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 ste