RE: [Repeater-Builder] wp-639 -- How far should I expect to move the invar rods?

2009-07-19 Thread Thomas Oliver
Watch your signal strength meter on your radio. The input signal may not be weak enough to hear a "noisey-quiet-noisey" Actually while tuning for a notch you need to be listening to the freq you are trying to notch and it will be a "quiet-noisey-quiet" as you move the notch rod on the side. Tune fo

RE: [Repeater-Builder] wp-639 -- How far should I expect to move the invar rods?

2009-07-19 Thread Mike Mullarkey
You need to have a service monitor that has a tracking generator / spectrum analyzer to accurately tune the duplexer. Find someone that has one help you with tuning the duplexer. If nobody has one, take it to a radio shop and ask if they could please re tune it. They may or not charge you. Mike

RE: [Repeater-Builder] wp-639 -- How far should I expect to move the invar rods?

2009-07-18 Thread Eric Lemmon
You don't move the Invar rods at all- those are the pass adjustments. You first adjust the Invar rods for minimum insertion loss at the pass frequency, then you adjust the side rods to achieve maximum rejection at the notch frequency. Just so we're talking apples and apples, the Invar rod is in t