cores!
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we offer
are required to watch and provide the ketchup
I'm sorry and apologize if that offends anyone. I know I'm not being
tough enough on 'em..
Ken
At 06:29 PM 12/6/2006, you wrote:
Ken, get a rope... 'cause that's what I'm a runnin'.
I want to learn/run Linux, but have neither the time nor the available
equipment to setup a test box so I can become familiar before I jump in head
first.
Well, this is wy OT for the list but I'll
At 06:34 PM 12/6/2006, you wrote:
Ken,
If you don't mind me asking, why should they be drawn and quartered?
---MS OutHouse is probably the most responsible piece of software
for the propagation of viruses, worms, trojans, etc.
Ok, 'nuff about this back to cracked slugs!
Ken
If you decide you don't want/need it, I'd take it off your hands.
Write me offlist if interested.
Ken
At 03:32 PM 11/28/2006, you wrote:
I have what I believe is a circulator/isolator that I would like to
identify.
It is big and heavy, meaning it measures 13W x 4 5/8H x 1 7/8D, and
weighs
set to key the
repeater when it
Of course, if you have an IRLP node as part of your system, it
is ridiculously easy to keep the clock in your controller spot on,
automatically.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
sure
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we offer complete
signature for details and you can alway sign up for the RC210 mail
list on Yahoogroups for all sorts of good info as well.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller
At 08:22 AM 11/23/2006, you wrote:
Bottom line... They rock..
www.arcom.com
---Thanks Jay but that isn't our URL.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous
connection, running an NTP client in
the controller (yes, this is a hint! g)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom
At 10:07 AM 11/23/2006, you wrote:
LOL,
I must have been fast asleep at the keyboard on that one Ken...
No problem! We'll chalk it up to a case of pre-tryptophan!
Happy T-day y'all. And to our non-American friends - Happy T-day too
(THURS dayg)
Ken
, although not a mixture of both.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood
At 04:38 PM 11/23/2006, you wrote:
Hello thanks for reading
ok, I got 2 boards I need to identify..
one is a HLN4181 *(is this the pl.tone board)
---Yes, that is the reedless PL board.
2nd is a HLN4012 A2 (what is this one)
that is a timeout timer board.
Ken
to be
frequency agile. In other words, you can't remotely program them on
the fly remotely.
To my way of thinking, this severely limits their usefulness as a
remote base radio.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
with
Kenwood TM-V7a, g707 and 271A) but Yaesu apparently has a different
line of reasoning :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http
At 02:10 PM 11/16/2006, you wrote:
Are you sure about the FT-8500? I was sure I saw a reference to the CAT
interface in the 8500 manual.
---I stand corrected. Indeed you're correct about the 8500. I stand
by my comments about the 8800 and 8900 however :-)
Ken
RC810 comes
with 4 port and is expandable to 8.
FYI...
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized
not interchange
between repeater models/versions.
Sure you're not confusing Version 2 TKR's with non-version 2's?
Version 2 VHF repeaters (750s) can be K or K2, depending on frequency range.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
, not the version of operating firmware installed in the repeater. And
as you rightly point out, 66D software will NOT work with a Version 2
repeater.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous
software hiccups?
---That's a really good question! I've never asked my Kenwood rep about
serials or manufacture date as it relates to Version 2s (sounds like I
should bug 'em about this). But as I remember, Version 2s started shipping
around October of 2004
Ken
passed through here in the past year,
you can control encode even if the xmtr is still active. I don't know
exactly when the firmware change was made to allow that but I know exactly
what you're talking about!
Ken
--
President
missed.
Write me directly with any other questions you may have.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
of is that
it is somehow miswired into the controller (the PTT LED being lit all the
time when connected to Hugh's box is a dead giveaway in my mind) but again,
I don't have enough experience with the interface to say for sure.
Ken
Ken
At 08:25 PM 5/23/2006 -0400, you wrote:
I need to hook up a non Motorola receiver to a micor repeater I am going
to remove the original..SNIP
--Why are you doing that?
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
themselves. What will
determine that is the duplexer and coordination for your area. I know in HI
it is 600 kHz for 2 meters and 5 mHz for 440
The repeaters themselves could care less :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
At 08:41 PM 5/16/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Ken I did not get my copy of the 91 software but when you program the 850 in
the repeater mode does the software put any min on the separation? I know
in the base mode it does not.
Nope, it doesn't care. At least the KPG-91D doesn't. It allows
At 08:39 AM 5/15/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Ken, the program referenced in the manual to download (the basicx
program) downloads all OK, but it has a checksum error (it is a zipped
file). I don't think it is an error in the download, as I have
transferred it several times on two different
At 11:47 AM 5/15/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Ken, how does Arcom upload the operating firmware into the RC-110? The
checksum error has been present on the file I download from NetMedia for
over two years, as I have been trying to get a working copy for that long.
-We use the BasicX program
At 04:59 PM 5/14/2006 -0700, you wrote:
If it's really only drawing 6 milliamps, and reaching
200F, something's seriously wrong.
---My bet is that one or more rectifiers within the bridge is shorted
(running really warm at idle is a very typical symptom of that)
I'd replace the bridge
Ken
program (the BasicX program) or with being able to
actually upload the firmware to the controller?
Ken
At 10:34 PM 5/14/2006 -0500, you wrote:
I am trying to upload the 4.0 firmware in my RC-110 and having no luck.
Queries to Arcom are being ignored with no response. The controller
with the ver
At 08:50 AM 4/27/2006 -0600, you wrote:
..that is parrot type it listens and then retransmits what it heard.
---Sounds like a Liberal!
---
This is America, dammit! Speak Spanish!
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To visit your group on the
At 11:31 AM 4/27/2006 -0400, you wrote:
But Ken..Here in British North America, A.K.A. Canada
our money is printed 1/2 of each bill in French !
---On that side, does the ink run?
Ken
---
This is America, dammit! Speak Spanish
.
I've run this setup for 4 years now with no noticeable ill effects.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom
to fool the Bell System
---On a somewhat related note, I remember having a leased line from MaBell
(Pacific Bell in SoCal) to my repeater site, as I didn't have a great RF
path to it.
I used a couple of Spence's pl decks for PTT control. A subaudible tone
remote, y'all!
Ken
like a typical spur/mix/intermod issue to me, probably
involving a 3rd party.
Anyway, let's have a listen.
Ken
At 02:55 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
Two VHF repeaters in town have been bothered by this from time to
time.. The first, which only occasionally gets it, but gets it LOUD
when
?
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we offer complete
with it. If no
products are generated on or near either receiver freq, it doesn't matter
IMHO.
With the UHF freqs in the equation, maybe something else will jump out
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers
At 04:30 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
460-ish, and no, no isolators.
---Hopefully you can find out the exact freqs Dave. That other repeater
could easily be part (or the missing 'link') of the problem.
So, where I can hear the wav file?
Ken
obviously I can't plug in the freqs you don't
know g)
Ken
At 04:47 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
With the UHF freqs in the equation, maybe something else will jump
out
Well, there are three UHF machines involved I guess.
444.375- at the 73 site, and 441.9 at the 85 site, plus this
commercial one
Put it up on my anonymous FTP site. That way anyone who wants to hear it
can download it:
ftp://ftp.ah6le.net/incoming
Once it's there, I'll move it to the /pub directory so everyone can access it
Ken
At 04:48 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
So, where I can hear the wav file?
Can I email
At 05:09 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Ken Arck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's there, enjoy.
I've run it through spectrum analysis. The 60 Hz hum is in my
soundcard/computer, and you can see the 127.3 PL, but that's encoded
by the repeater. The rest
Sounds like a definate transmitter being heard by receiver with audio
delay to me.
Is it always that quieting? Wow
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller
At 05:24 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
I had it zipped, but it didn't make much gain. Not too surprising I
guess.
---Saved about a meg when I zipped it, which semed like a worthwhile
improvement to me!
Ken
. Adjust your sig gen as needed :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood
At 05:35 PM 4/21/2006 -, you wrote:
I just got a phone report of hearing a voice in the noise this
morning, but neither of us can hear it on the input.
---Probably matrixing
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
At 12:10 PM 4/21/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Is that the UHF flatpack with 6 small cylindrical cavities? If so, it's a
notch duplexer.
---No, it's a BP/BR base design:
http://www.telewave.com/pdf/TWDS-6014.pdf
Ken
At 08:58 PM 4/21/2006 -0400, you wrote:
You wouldnt hear the sync buzz,your rx is to narrow!
--I ABSOLUTE disagree with this. You can easily hear sync buzz on a NBFM
receiver.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
more
grace the Repeater Builder tent!
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood
My bet would be on the T-1504A.
I have tuned/used many of them over the years and I have to see one yet
that didn't exceed spec and provide a MINIMUM of -102 dBm notch depth with
2 dB of insertion loss @ 5 mHz.
I love 'em!
Ken
At 07:31 PM 4/15/2006 -, you wrote:
We are going
for the 440-450 MHz split from
Cook Towers last week but I was told by Kathy they are no longer able
to get them cut those frequencies from ANDREW.
My TX is on 448.xxx and RX is 443.xxx
Thank you for any help.
Ken
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To visit your group on the web, go
I wonder where PETA is on this one g
Ken
At 11:47 PM 4/10/2006 -, you wrote:
Remember the Mountain Lion stories a month or two back?
I wouldn't have believed the following story if I hadn't
seen it myself. This months story comes from the same
area as the mountain lion event...
Out
, if moving the duplexer a meg or two
but you maintain the same offset spacing, can you simply get away with
retuning the pass freq and, all other things being equal (port impedance,
etc), is that all that is needed?
Manuals always seem to talk about tuning but rarely (if ever) REtuning...
Ken
and assume the notch has followed exactly.
---And this one of the older ones. No tuning caps but those plexi rods for
notch tuning. This duplexer works great as is, so I see no reason it
shouldn't when it's retuned.
Ken
Thanks Eric. No problem as I have the necessary equipment (SA with tracking
gen, etc). Now to find my 3 dB pads... g
Ken
At 06:32 PM 4/9/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Ken,
I think the stock answer is the one to follow. Actually, since the
bandpass tuning on a typical BpBr duplexer is rather broad
At 08:21 AM 4/1/2006 -0800, you wrote:
That thought crossed my mind also, but it still looks like something
somebody built in their garage.
---You mean it's RCA? g
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers
Write me offlist. We use them in our controllers and have plenty in stock
Ken
At 04:19 PM 3/27/2006 -, you wrote:
I am trying locate a Tone Decoder Chip 8870 ( Zarlink MT8870DE).
These are no longer available from Jameco or Digikey. Does anyone know
where I can buy a chip or two? It fits
At 07:06 PM 3/27/2006 -0700, you wrote:
California Micro.
CM8870.
Virtually identical to the original Mitel, and findable still.
--Ahhh, thanks for the info Nate.. Good to know (every once in a while,
Zarlink can't fill our 1,000 piece orders quickly enough!)
Ken
Are they MXs or MX?
MX are xtal controlled...
Ken
At 05:56 PM 3/16/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Any info on Motorola MX series Would Be Appreciated, I have some I would
Like to Set up and Donate to a Large Church for their Security Dept, Plays
Etc. and That Statement Security Dept is a Bad Sign
sink 500 ma at up to 90 volts. Same for
every output actually :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
At 12:55 PM 3/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks Ken... no sooner looked that up than you chimed-in. Responsive as
ever!!
How much battery is required for the battery backup? Looks like it is diode
protected so I don't have to worry about boiling (or worse) a small gel
cell but wanted
and was pretty easy to do and had the advantage of needing
only the Station Control card (getting rid of the Squelch gate card is a
major blessing in and of itself!)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers
At 08:21 PM 3/5/2006 -0500, you wrote:
http://www.comtekk.us/tone-generator.htm
---Well actually, it's tone ENCODING software :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater
isopole.djvu
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we
-630B) as
half-duplex link radios. Cranked back in power and with a fan on the
heatsink, they work great. Excellent receivers and very clean transmitters
make for good link radios. 2 of 'em would make a good portapeater, IMHO.
They also tune down as low as 433 with no problems or mods needed.
Ken
Here are some other possible definitions of repeater
1) Parrot
2) Winchester rifle
3) A person who replaces bad peat moss
4) Mimic
5) Any politician
Hope this helps :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
always had a
problem not locking up when it was real cold.
---My first synthesized remote base was a Motorola Metrum II with a
Vanguard synthesizer. This was in 1977 or 1978 ??
Made a really decent mountaintop radio combo though
Ken
, I also need to get a plug in for our RC210 Repeater Controller,
which would work great for his application and certainly wouldn't break the
bank - www.ah6le.net/arcom/rc210/rc210.html).
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
them (that is why they're used in the first place
in most UHF/VHF solid-state amps, as they're inherently broadband).
You're going to need to learn how to read a Smith Chart if you're dealing
with 'em.
Ken
--
President
Yea, what Jeff said! :-)
At 03:08 PM 2/6/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Does anyone have a good way of measuring the frequency of
PC board micro
strips (M/S)?
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. Microstrips are basically just
sections of transmission line. A transmission line doesn't have
!
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we offer complete
to be maintained as
well.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and
we
without too much difficulty.
Admittedly however, not lately :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
that was molded plastic and
double-sided tape on the back. But no one seems to remember such a beast.
Anyone know of one still available? Google was kinda useless
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers
I was looking for at a local one.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood
At 04:23 PM 2/1/2006 -, you wrote:
We carry a mount that results in the motorola nmo
equivalent, but requires a smaller hole (about
5/8). I used to call it the Larsen Hole style
mount, but many other mfgrs offer it.
Real men use real NMOs g
Ken
At 09:10 AM 2/1/2006 -0800, you wrote:
I have several different types of mic hang-up clips you can use
... I'll even let you use my electric drill to drill the holes to
mount it too.
---Heh I bet genuine Batwing hangup boxes, complete with slide
switches, eh?
Ken
a diskless Linux mini-ITX board for (among other things)
positive control of the system.
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net
it, the TKR's ain't
exactly small and light :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers
means, OR uses 442 as well!
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave
At 11:46 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, you wrote:
HI...
It has been a while since I was on 450 mhz.. but I believe the spacing
between receiver and transmitter, on 450, is some where around 1.2 mhz
not 600 khz
---The standard is 5 Mhz, at least in the US :-)
Ken
At 12:23 PM 1/27/2006 -0500, you wrote:
---The standard is 5 Mhz, at least in the US :-)
Except 470-512 where the standard is 3Mhz.
---Ok ok, so I should have qualified that as MID-SPLIT g
Ken
--
President and CTO
At 07:42 PM 1/27/2006 -0500, you wrote:
I just found out that I got my vanity call sign. Congratulations to me!
W2ARK WQDY219
---I tried to get AH6ARCK but.. g
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
handhelds.
Any suggestions?
---How are you going to use (or more accurately, WHY are you going to use)
TKRs for simplex repeaters (I assume as in simplex, you mean
store-and-forward)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
of Mt. Haleakala Maui, Hawaii.
(I've also had horses literally look over my shoulder while working on an
outdoor repeater cabinet in a pasture). The next time I went to that site,
I brought some apples and made some friends.
Ken
At 08:07 PM 1/25/2006 -0800, you wrote:
I can't help but wonder what a mountain lion tastes
like.
like chicken :-)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers
Hi, can someone tell me the correct loop length for a DB4076W duplexer?
I need to be able to tune it from 440-470MHz. This is the 4-can bp/br
unit. I know they have different lengths for the different freq
ranges. Any help would be appreciated. Thanx
Ken
Yahoo! Groups Links
executed :-)
Ken
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/
* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(VHF and UHF) have single stage circulators with a 100 watt
load. So far, neither has gone boom.
Yep, I know. Not enough RF has come down the feedline to blow any of 'em
up. Which is just fine with me!
Never fried either (yet!)
Ken
, someone told me that Version 2's do work this way but it has not
been my experience (I just got 3 Version 2's in. Maybe I should try it again!)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater
At 04:57 PM 1/12/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Contact me off list - I can espouse on that... I have a TKR-820 operating
through a CAT-300 controller.
---We're talking a TKR-850
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom
.
The specific question iscan you control the encoded tone while the
transmitter is active? And by using the TKR's built-in tone encoder.
In other words, if you have a hangtime of, let's say...5 seconds, can you
kill encoded tone half way through the hangtime?
Ken
those springs to connect the
center pin around the corner. Imagine what 1500 watts of 144 mHz energy
does to one of those :-)
One reason I've always sworn by geniune Amphenol silver plated connectors
for just about every RF application.
Ken
Damn!
Looks like what happened to my repeater during the repeater wars of the
70's in Southern Cal!
Ken
(those were the days my friend, we'd thought they'd never end.)
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
All this talk about polyphasers reminds me why I've never supplied my
parrot with laser weaponry...
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
http
fine!
Then again, why use a whole 14 pin dip package device when a single NPN
transistor and 2 resistors will do the same thing? (ok, in the case of the
4050, it takes 2 transistors!)
Ken
At 12:22 PM 12/31/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Has anyone used the TC4049BP hex buffer converter chip
At 06:09 PM 12/31/2005 -0800, you wrote:
The one I have - the glass is broken.
---Ahhh, well you didn't say that before!
Happy New Years, Neal (and everyone else!)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
At 09:30 PM 12/31/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Same to you Kenn (and everyone else!)
---Yea yea.. I typo'd your name.. touche' !
Ken
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/
* To unsubscribe from this group, send
as they
aren't tarnished.
U, why would they tarnish? They're in a vacuum! (even if they
*weren't* gold)
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers
with...
Ken
--
President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories.
http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html
We offer complete Kenwood TKR repeater packages!
We are now
At 07:48 PM 12/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
BW TV, Color TV, HDTV... they ALL use the same frequencies and the same
antennas would work equally well.
---Seems to me I remember the color antennas were being pushed as wide
bandwidth. Which of course you needed for color TV!
Ken
401 - 500 of 837 matches
Mail list logo
