[Repeater-Builder] Re: State sites

2007-02-01 Thread Steve Murphy
To make a long story short, any agency who provides public safety communications owes it to their public to secure their sites. Accountability is everything; you have to know who has access, when they come and go from the site, and what they did while they were there. That said, I'm a ham and also

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Commercial Trunking repeater

2007-02-01 Thread Steve Murphy
I've also worked with quite a bit of LTR stuff, although not for the past 13 years or so. It was always very solid and reliable; the only "weak point" that I recall was that if you lost a PA on one of the channels, radios "homed" on that channel would be kind of stuck in limbo. This didn't happen

[Repeater-Builder] Time Bomb Capacitors

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Murphy
For those who have requested the link to Bob's article: www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/spectra/spectra-caps.html And, for those who expressed concern over the use of tantalum caps: I have also seen tantalums fail in a glorious manner. That said, the Spectra radios already contain dozens of t

[Repeater-Builder] Spectra time-bomb caps.

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Murphy
Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I sent Bob, WA1MIK a message thanking him for his fine article on recapping the Spectra radios. At work, we have a fleet with several hundred 800 MHz Spectra C5 and C7 mobiles. Over the past year or so, they've been dropping like flies. I've now gone thr