Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: need some help with an Repco Repeater

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Morris WA6ILQ
At 09:32 PM 03/25/07, you wrote: Since I'm into some self abuse... I'll tell you I've played with a number of the Repco tx and rx strips you see on ebay every so often. You can see a VHF tx strip on ebay pretty constant.. the seller must have a pretty large batch of them. I've also bought my share

Re: [Repeater-Builder] English Class

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Custer
THE moderators(s) were hoping that the (class) would just get over it. Everyone that responds, including you Dave, is adding to SPAM. Move on Kevin Custer OWNER DaveH wrote: What is this English class? It says Repeater builder! Where is the mderator?

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Moto Pulsar 120 (IMTS phone war stories)

2007-03-26 Thread skipp025
Great to see someone describe the Pulsar well. They came into the SF Motorola Service Station well through the 80's. I don't remember ever having to really repair one other than small stupid user things and some control reprogramming. Built like a fort with a pretty neat internal duplexer

[Repeater-Builder] Radio Words IWCE This week!

2007-03-26 Thread skipp025
Darn it Kevin, ... and I was getting ready to use the word irregardless. Re: IWCE Once again a quick blurb about the Las Vegas located IWCE (two-way radio) Convention. Drop me an email direct (very quick like) If you need free tickets to save the $60 each entry fee... which you could

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Moto Pulsar 120 (IMTS phone war stories)

2007-03-26 Thread Ken Arck
I don't remember if it was the Pulsar 120 or not but I did indeed build a repeater in the late 70's, based on a Pulsar. One channel element (square copper as I remember) and a 5 mHz 1st IF made it a piece of cake. It worked surprisingly well for what it was. As this was in SoCal where UHF

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola test set

2007-03-26 Thread Jim McLaughlin
Dwaye, I would like the S1056A with the interface cable. Let me know how you want to do it. Tnx Jim- WA9FPT - Original Message - From: ldgelectronics To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:11 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Motorola test set

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Radio Words IWCE This week!

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Dengler
At 3/26/2007 09:30 AM, you wrote: Re: IWCE Once again a quick blurb about the Las Vegas located IWCE (two-way radio) Convention. Drop me an email direct (very quick like) If you need free tickets to save the $60 each entry fee... which you could spend on junk food. FWIW Roger Coude VE2DBE,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Power-Pole connectors

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Dengler
At 3/24/2007 02:57 PM, you wrote: Reasons not to solder PowerPoles: 1) It is very hard to control the wicking of solder into a stranded wire. Allowing this to happen can create a failure point in applications where vibration is present. And there can be a surprising amount of vibration in a

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Motorola test set

2007-03-26 Thread ldgelectronics
Wow, that was fast. They are both spoken for. Thanks, Dwayne Kincaid Hi, I've got a couple of the older Motorola test sets that need to find a good home. These are S1056A. One has the interface cable and one has the crystal set strip. They go for about $10 on e-bay, so it's not

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Moto Pulsar 120

2007-03-26 Thread nj902
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll bet they are VERY large and have POOR receiver sensitivity (like .8 uV). - Sorry, but you've got your head stuck in the 60's. Those old

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Distance

2007-03-26 Thread n8oku
as far as range goes.. take the square root of the distance from the ground to the base of your antenna and multiply it by 1.5 and that would be your range higher mo betterallen ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find

[Repeater-Builder] Re: 4 bay folded j pole questions

2007-03-26 Thread ka3hsw
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, chuckmf1135 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a 4 bay (folded j pole or dipole) it has 34 folded elements and total boom length around 20'. I wangt to use this for amateur radio use, however no one knows what freq their business was on. I havent

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Distance

2007-03-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On 3/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as range goes.. take the square root of the distance from the ground to the base of your antenna and multiply it by 1.5 and that would be your range higher mo betterallen In what units, Allen? Didn't

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Distance

2007-03-26 Thread w5zit
That sounds about right to me Nate. I have a repeater with a low antenna (abt 65 ft) in the flatland around the Dallas area that does about 12 miles, so not a bad rule of thumb for that low antenna. But I also have a repeater with an antenna at about 300 ft in that area that does a lot better

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Moto Pulsar 120

2007-03-26 Thread Ralph Hogan
Riley, I remember seeing a pulsar mod on the web, it might have been this one: http://www.phreak.org/radio/mods/pulsar.txt Have a couple of pulsars sitting here I haven't had time to mess with. Was planning on digging out the duplexers in them. Anyone know how they fair on the spec anal test

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Distance

2007-03-26 Thread FHS
There is a lot more that comes into consideration than height when you begin to predict the range and/or coverage. I would suggest that anybody wanting to make predictions of coverage obtain a copy of GE's DF-10003-1 VHF and UHF Propagation. There are a lot of graphs, but It will help you get

[Repeater-Builder] Re: 4 bay folded j pole questions

2007-03-26 Thread skipp025
The characteristic impedance of a folded dipole is 300 ohms. Depends on who you ask really. The impedance of what most people call a classic folded dipole is about 300 ohms. But measure the various dipoles by Decibel and Sinclair you'll probably find they are not all standard size

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Distance

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Morris WA6ILQ
At 04:59 PM 03/26/07, you wrote: There is a lot more that comes into consideration than height when you begin to predict the range and/or coverage. I would suggest that anybody wanting to make predictions of coverage obtain a copy of GE's DF-10003-1 VHF and UHF Propagation. There are a lot of

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Moto Pulsar 120 (IMTS phone war stories)

2007-03-26 Thread Milt
If it was a copper colored square channel element, then the radio should have been about 2ft long, 6high, and 15 wide and weighed enough to eliminate the need for the extra couple of sandbags in the trunk in the winter. TLD-1100 comes to mind but that was the VHF version. Based on a Motrac,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Moto Pulsar 120 (IMTS phone war stories)

2007-03-26 Thread Steve Bosshard (NU5D)
My first job in the business was as a service tech for an RCC. We had a GE IMTS terminal with hand wired 5th Selector Level stroger switches on the direct inward dial trunks complete with sleeve lead control. There were 4 selector switches, and one block on 1000 numbers. In addition to the GE