Re: [Repeater-Builder] False DTMF Muting On CAT-1000 Controller

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Brown
My experience is with the CAT-300 controllers, but I have found that if the level to the DTMF decoder is set too high, it is a lot more prone to falsing and covering a transmission with the cover tone. I have found that female voices gave the most problem. Reducing the level to the DTMF decode

RE: [Repeater-Builder] False DTMF Muting On CAT-1000 Controller

2008-03-27 Thread Eric Lemmon
Tony, Yes, but it requires throat surgery. Seriously, though, one repeater user in my area has a tendency to make a high-pitched "eee" sound when others might say "um", and this will sometimes cause the controller to mute his voice just as it would a DTMF tone. Slightly reducing the DTMF decoder

[Repeater-Builder] False DTMF Muting On CAT-1000 Controller

2008-03-27 Thread Tony L.
The DTMF muting feature on one of our CAT-1000 controllers occasionally falses and sends cover tone over a user's voice. This happens to one user more so than anyone else. Is there an adjustment? Why does this happen on only one of 3 idential controllers? Thanks.

RE: [Repeater-Builder] MASTR-II ID

2008-03-27 Thread Eric Lemmon
Paul, Because Hams just love to swap boards and modules between radios, the Combination Number on the data plate is no absolute proof of what is inside the radio- but it is a start. The next time you have the Mastr II radio open, take some time to record the module numbers stamped in black ink al

RE: [Repeater-Builder] VXR-7000 Troubles

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Mumphrey Kc5ozh
Hello All and KFD29 IMHO, if you pose your questions to "the Group"you may find a "quicker" and more knowledgeable response to your problems with the VXR-7000; rather than having "individuals" email you and ask you what is wrong! That is one of the reasons we share in a "Group". You may e

[Repeater-Builder] VXR-7000 Troubles

2008-03-27 Thread KFD29
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic, trying not to re-invent the wheel...

2008-03-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: > Nate, > > Wish it were that easy. In about all my rigs to set the freq is easy, turn > the tuning knob. Most have standard offset and hope the repeater you are > going to does also. As for CTCSS most all my rigs require multiple setting > and menus. One to set the freq,

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic, trying not to re-invent the wheel...

2008-03-27 Thread Ron Wright
Nate, Wish it were that easy. In about all my rigs to set the freq is easy, turn the tuning knob. Most have standard offset and hope the repeater you are going to does also. As for CTCSS most all my rigs require multiple setting and menus. One to set the freq, one to set rx or tx, etc. The

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic, trying not to re-invent the wheel...

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Plack
Nate, hear hear. In fact, I'd take it a step further. We only stay "checked out" on a piece of equipment if we use it regularly. For that matter, equipment which sits and gathers dust for years doesn't stay reliable. Is buying radios for permanent installation at an EOC really smart? Back in the

[Repeater-Builder] [OT] Motorola insider letter

2008-03-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Interesting article for most of us here: http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/2051259 Apologies if too far off-topic. Click on the "insider e-mail" link to read the letter. Normally I would have just sent the article link, since the S/N ratio at Slashdot sucks these days... but

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic, trying not to re-invent the wheel...

2008-03-27 Thread Nate Duehr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, that will work. Then again, many amateur transceivers have a > "simpleton mode" that only allows volume, squelch & memory channel > adjustment. Might be a cheaper & more flexible solution since the radio > can still be easily reprogrammed by anyone who does know

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Dual-Band Repeater Antenna

2008-03-27 Thread Scott Zimmerman
> > (ok, so I took poetic license) THAT license should be REVOKED!!! HIHI Scott Scott Zimmerman Amateur Radio Call N3XCC 474 Barnett Rd Boswell, PA 15531 - Original Message - From: "Ken Arck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Dual-Band Repeater Antenna

2008-03-27 Thread Ken Arck
At 11:34 AM 3/27/2008, Kris Kirby wrote: >On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Ken Arck wrote: > > <--I ran a Diamond X300 on top of Mt Haleakala on Maui at 10,000' for > > years. It survived many wind and ice storms just fine > >Ice? In Hawaii? Do tell

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Dual-Band Repeater Antenna

2008-03-27 Thread Kris Kirby
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Ken Arck wrote: > <--I ran a Diamond X300 on top of Mt Haleakala on Maui at 10,000' for > years. It survived many wind and ice storms just fine Ice? In Hawaii? Do tell -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But remember, with no superpowers comes no responsibility.

[Repeater-Builder] Re: DTMF Decoder

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Kincaid
I have a couple of them that I addad the 4th column to. One of them cooked in a rack full of tubes on Contractor Point for years. I wouldn't part with mine. :) Jeff W6JK --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, tony dinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to figure out whether I s

Re: [Repeater-Builder] MASTR-II ID

2008-03-27 Thread Ron Wright
Paul, Some where on the radio should be a combination number. This tells all. Tells what band, power and some other issues. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: "Paul E. Robichaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 05:20:12 CDT >To: "Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com" >Subject: [Repeater-Build

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Using Alinco DR-605 Dual Band Mobiles for Repeater

2008-03-27 Thread Ron Wright
Brian, Most for of the repeaters on e-bay are GE, Mot or some other commercial manufacture and their equipment is type accepted. The Ham stuff is where some might get into trouble. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: briguy1q2w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 07:21:30 CDT >To: Repeater-Buil