[Repeater-Builder] Re: 24 vdc to 12 vdc

2008-03-29 Thread Al Wolfe
Ron, et al, A corollary of Kirchhoff's law says that all currents are equal in a series circuit and all voltages are equal in a parallel circuit. Tapping a load across the lower battery represents a parallel circuit of the bottom battery and the load (radio) using 12 volts, and this

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

2008-03-29 Thread no6b
At 3/28/2008 12:07, you wrote: If we were muting DTMF, we'd have had no idea why he was complaining. If DTMF mute is on tones are being muted, they must not be too bad. One system I maintain has ADMs set to a bit longer than the DTMF detect time, the DTMF mute delay is set to the same time,

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread tallinson2
Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. As stated earlier, the channel elements are often removed to prevent operation on the previous user's channel. Not a big deal. The cards are often kept as spares, particularly if the station was disposed of

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Tom, Some good points. Hard to beat a Micor. If many repeater builders really knew much they would be using the Micor or the like instead of the plug and easy way out. I like the Kensu. Thought would add something. How about Kensucom, hi. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: tallinson2 [EMAIL

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 24 vdc to 12 vdc

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Al, Your point is well taken and I understood this. However, for the most part a rig is not going to be drawing much current, in receive most of the time. Little affect on the charge/discharge of the lower battery. This is why in a previous post I said depends on the load if wanting to

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

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Nate, I've been designing 8870s and 8880s in things for over 15 years. Good chip and it has lasted. Pin 3 is simply the output of the internal op-amp and using a feed back resistor to 2 and driving with another one can set the AC gain over a wide range. The gain is feedback/driving resistor

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Vern, Yep you got a Micor...a mobile repackaged as a base station. Might look at the PA. The more transistors the higher the power. The PA came in 45/60/110 W. However, in this configuration if using for repeater turn down to maybe 50% rated power out. This is adjusted with a pot in the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread Milt
Actually, I wouldn't be too concerned about the condition of the rest of the station. You might not be, and I would not be concerned if I had the station or was considering it. I do not know what the original poster's level of experience is, thus my comment. If I was looking at this

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Milt, Very good advice. I would not even try to move the unit down with the existing boards if they are the higher split. If going to 222 then would be something to start with. If putting on 2 meters would be nice to pick up a mobile for 136-150 range and simple unplug the boards...well

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: 24 vdc to 12 vdc

2008-03-29 Thread Paul Finch
Ron and All, EZGO Golf Carts do this all the time with there electric golf carts, they tie the tail lights and head light if any to the lower two 6 volt set of batteries. I admit it is not the best way to go about it but it seems to work, as Ron said, it depends on the load and in the case of

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread mung
The reason the power supply leads are missing is that I got it from the local used supply store. They had taken every thing out of the cabinet and were going to sell the cabinet and power supply seperate and probably throw the rest out. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:43:36 - tallinson2

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread mung
I wouldn't mind having it on 220 if nothing else then for the learning experiance of doing it. Vern On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:25:10 -0500 (CDT) Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Milt, Very good advice. I would not even try to move the unit down with the existing boards if they are the

Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Compa Station Help

2008-03-29 Thread Ron Wright
Vern, There are basically 2 power leads from the power supply. 1 is a multi-wire cable that plugs into the card cage usually and the other is a large, #12, two wire that goes from the heavy terminal on the rear of the supply to the main chassis set of terminals, usually in the upper right.

[Repeater-Builder] uPC8016T datasheet - anyone have it? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-03-29 Thread Naber, Benjamin L. SPC
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Anyone have this datasheet? It is a UHF mixer SOT-6 My military internet here really freaking sucks and doesn't like to load pages... Thanks, ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE