[Repeater-Builder]Repeater Duty Cycle: Was Alinco Ham Repeater??????

2006-02-22 Thread radio5000
For example: I live in Northwest Florida. After Hurricane Ivan, cellphones were inoperative so all of our communications were taking place on our UHF conventional system. Add this to the additional deputies (doubled the shifts, no days off) and during the day, the repeaters would be in tra

Re: [Repeater-Builder]Repeater Duty Cycle: Was Alinco Ham Repeater??????

2006-02-22 Thread Q
I believe that! I also know that my ham repeater in normal use sees more continuous keydown time than most commercial or public service systems,we hams just love to transmit! Closer to paging duty where they transmit for long periods of time during peak hours.All our paging huts were air codit

Re: [Repeater-Builder]Repeater Duty Cycle: Was Alinco Ham Repeater??????

2006-02-22 Thread Laryn Lohman
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had to > setup extra fans to blow across the heatsinks of the repeaters (MSF 5000s), > because they were so hot I thought they were going to melt! And are these supposed to be continuous duty?? Or were they a modified

Re: [Repeater-Builder]Repeater Duty Cycle: Was Alinco Ham Repeater??????

2006-02-22 Thread radio5000
They were continuous duty stations. They still got hot. I've got Quantars now.   Will   In a message dated 2/22/2006 10:34:30 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>  I had to > setup extra fans to blow across