Re: [Repeater-Builder] slightly OT: securing feedline to the side of a tower

2007-06-02 Thread Jay Urish
Great advice! I know how much the andrew hardware costs... That would bankrupt this project. I ended up going the all home depot route with galv unistrut and strut clamps, minis and my spacing is 8'. I will evaluate the load on the feedline, and add additional supports in problem areas.. Jef

[Repeater-Builder] IC FR4000

2007-06-02 Thread barrypal
Anyone running the Icom repeater in the ham bands? This question has probably come up before buy I couldn't find it. I am considering the Icom 4000 or Vertex 7000 for my ham repeater. I am running a GE Mastr II now. I know they are bullet proof and the audio is great but weight and space are a

[Repeater-Builder] VHF Repeater

2007-06-02 Thread James Sholan - KI4OSM
I am looking for a Duplexer for a VHF 2 Meter Amateur Radio Repeater Repeater in = 144.850 Repeater out = 145.450 a 600 Mhz spit I have a small budgeted.Repeater is privately owned. James Sholan - KI4OSM www.KI4OSM.com www.MyHamSearch.com http://bayside.ki4osm.com http://groups.yahoo.com/

[Repeater-Builder] Re: paging system

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hodgdon
As I am learning, I think most all amateurs operators have some whackyness about them. My intention is not to interpit the fcc rules as I want. I am new to amateur radio, having my ticket for just over a year and there are a lot of things that I am still learning. I have seen and been told that

[Repeater-Builder] Re: paging system

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hodgdon
Now, this makes a little more sense. As you show here, if you are using say a DTMF or Tone Page to activate only one radio or pager at a single time is not considered paging, but if you are activating more than 1 pager, then that is considered broadcasting, correct. One problem is that here local

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Duplexer tuning - sanity check

2007-06-02 Thread Gary Schafer
> -Original Message- > From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 3:03 AM > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Duplexer tuning - sanity check > > > On May 31, 20

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Thanks, Alum Tape and Antenna...Tape part#=3M 425

2007-06-02 Thread Preston Moore
Thanks Jeff. The tape is Scotch 425 which I found by looking at the 420 instruction sheet. http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3M-SpecialtyTapes/SpcltyTape/ProdInfo/Spec6/AlumFoil425 >I bought my last rolls of filament tape and aluminum >tape from Tessco. They >were OEM'ed by 3M bu

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: D-Star demo

2007-06-02 Thread Paul Metzger
Ron, When you wrote "I am interested in the parameters of the D-Star vs analog test." Weak Signal D-STAR versus FM.mp3' file located within the 'D-STAR Digital Audio' directory of the Illinoisdigitalham yahoo group? If so, please forward a copy of your findings to me as well. The o

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: D-Star demo

2007-06-02 Thread Gary
What test are referring to? If you find some documented test results of a real field test then please let us know otherwise I for one don't know what test you are referring to. And what do you mean "had hoped the D-Star rigs could be changed to analog"? D-Star is a digital audio format, analog aud

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Micor 220 mhz

2007-06-02 Thread Scott Zimmerman
Is this what you are looking for? http://www.repeater-builder.com/products/ampbd.html Scott Scott Zimmerman Amateur Radio Call N3XCC 612 Barnett Rd Boswell, PA 15531 - Original Message - From: "wd0ekr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: [Repeater-Buil

RE: [Repeater-Builder] slightly OT: securing feedline to the side of a tower

2007-06-02 Thread Jeff DePolo
> Nope, because like you said, they would draw the feedline into the > strut, smashing it all up... I regularly use cushioned clamps for attaching rigid feedline to unistrut. I usually buy them from McMaster-Carr, but I'm sure they're available elsewhere. McMaster-Carr has them available in "tub

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Thanks, Alum Tape and Antenna...Tape part#?

2007-06-02 Thread Jeff DePolo
I bought my last rolls of filament tape and aluminum tape from Tessco. They were OEM'ed by 3M but sold as Decibel products. If you can't find them, I'll see if I can get a 3M part number off them. --- Jeff > -Original Message- > From: Repeater-

Re: [Repeater-Builder] paging system

2007-06-02 Thread mch
I use paging in more than one format. One is user initiated - just like playing a message. Another is telemetry when something is wrong at the station. It's a page followed by a report of the malfunction. Both are perfectly legal under Part 97. Joe M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At 6/2/2007

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: slightly OT: securing feedline to the side of a tower

2007-06-02 Thread Kris Kirby
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator wrote: > I have also seen 1ft pieces of #14 house wire cut to 1 ft lengths used > with success, but have to make sure properly route arround tower leg > flanges or movement, and there is suppose to be some movement, will > eventually ware into f

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: D-Star demo

2007-06-02 Thread Kris Kirby
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator wrote: > My question was the rigs/power/antennas/etc the same on both. A test > of 10 W with D-Star and analog 1 watt HT does not address the issue. > I had hoped the D-Star rigs could be changed to analog making the only > difference the modu

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Duplexer tuning - sanity check

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator
Vern, Typically a BP/BR has a wide pass and narrow notch. On mobile duplexers the pass is usually very broad. Base type often have pretty good attenuation a few MHz away. Adding a bandpass will improve this. No cavity is going to illimate something 16 kHz awaywell and let the desired s

[Repeater-Builder] Re: slightly OT: securing feedline to the side of a tower

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator
Jay, Here on some of the towers that hold repeaters, cel phone sites, FM broadcast all with helix they use the proper clamp at 5 ft or less intervals. See some at about 5" helix, but most either 7/8 or 1-5/8. I have also seen 1ft pieces of #14 house wire cut to 1 ft lengths used with success,

[Repeater-Builder] Re: D-Star demo

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Wright, Skywarn Coodinator
Hi all, Thanks for the many responses, but guess no one had the answer to my question. So I will try again. I am interested in the parameters of the D-Star vs analog test. It seems the testees had 2 receivers at a site, one D-Star and one conviental analog and made a transmission on each for

[Repeater-Builder] Re: VHF Engineering PA-144 repair

2007-06-02 Thread skipp025
Hello Andreas, The first step would be to locate the Manual for the PA. Someone in the group here provided a copy of the manual to me in the past. If it's not also available in the Repeater Builder web site I can send you a copy... painfully slow from my current dial up connection. Try the R

[Repeater-Builder] Re: TP163 Decoding

2007-06-02 Thread skipp025
Hi James, Kind of hard to understand what you want... From what I gather you have repeaters with CSI TP-163 tone panels attached. You dial up and download the Tone-Panel information, which was pretty standard some years back. You simply capture/log the downloaded data and probably save it

RE: [Repeater-Builder] paging system

2007-06-02 Thread n9wys
Hey - don't wrap me up in this, simply because I **am** "one To-many"... 73 de Mark TOMANY - N9WYS Sorry - couldn't resist a bit of weird humor... hi hi -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 97.201 (e): An auxiliary station may transmit

[Repeater-Builder] VHF Engineering PA-144 repair

2007-06-02 Thread Andreas Papagapiou
Hello everyone, We have an old repeater made of "VHF Engineering" kits. The repeater suddently became silent. It seems that there's a problem with the PA module (PA-144). I used a handheld radio to provide 1W input to the PA, but there's no output. Did anyone have a similar problem? Any ideas o

[Repeater-Builder] TP163 Decoding

2007-06-02 Thread jamesupington
Groupmembers, Can anyone please help. We have a few TP163 repeaters installed and manage them with simple DOS-bases automated software that dial each of them up once a day. Most of the data we download we can use, but some of it must be decoded for ex the total hits and airtime per user. Since

Re: [Repeater-Builder] paging system

2007-06-02 Thread no6b
At 6/2/2007 06:58, you wrote: >the interpretation and implementation of the fcc >rules is not for you to deicde or interpret. they >are the final word on whether a system that you >may think perfectly legal and a logical >application of the rules is legal and they >interpret the rules very litera

[Repeater-Builder] paging system

2007-06-02 Thread Ted Bleiman K9MDM - MDM Radio
it would have been fine with me for you to identify me these guys know i'm a whacko. the interpretation and implementation of the fcc rules is not for you to deicde or interpret. they are the final word on whether a system that you may think perfectly legal and a logical application of the rules

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Do Anyone Use Their Repeater For This

2007-06-02 Thread Christopher Hodgdon
Thanks for all the replies. I wanted to bring this up and see what ya'll think of it. I had someone send me an email directly regarding this and I wanted to further the question that was presented from it. I do not wish to include the email or name, as I wish to just make this a new question on

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Do Anyone Use Their Repeater For This

2007-06-02 Thread exkal_work
Take a look at www.apollowireless.com. They sell pagers that can be programmed for both frequency and cap-code through the keypad of the pager. Retail, the Apollo Gold (a direct copy of the Motorola Advisor Gold) goes for about $140 Canadian. They're fully synthesized and are available in VH

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Duplexer tuning - sanity check

2007-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On May 31, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Bob M. wrote: > The duplexers on UHF are typically set for 5 MHz > spacing, although closer spacing is often available. > The purpose of the duplexer is to allow the receiver > and transmitter to share one antenna. They offer very > little filtering of other nearby si

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: D-Star demo

2007-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On May 30, 2007, at 8:50 PM, mch wrote: > Actually correction for half of the 'other 2400' and the other 1200 is > for data. > > Joe M. Ahh yes, oops. You got it right. Thanks Joe. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X