Skyler,
I have maintained dozens of them over
the years. The transmitters are really junk, spur up fast. The
receivers have a horrible front end. For broadcasting, 40 years
ago I found about 20 GE Master pro receivers that were wide band
(15 KHz deviation). I made an unbalanced to balanced line adapter,
ran the discriminator audio through a Micor squelch IC, a very
small de-emphasis circuit, and had a superior receiver to anything
Marti ever made.
They look nice. They do have clean
audio, but they are also maintenance nightmares. I just dropped of
some 8 pieces of Marti gear to a local ham radio second hand shop.
The hams use the chassis's for projects. One guy took a RPT-2 to
hid a Baefeng with a gel cell and an identifier inside for a
"Fox-Box". Best use for the chassis yet!
Tom K8TB
On 2/15/2021 7:01 PM, Skyler Fennell
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I have access to a few Marti RPU transmitters. Has
anyone here had luck using them as link radios? They have
beautiful audio, but not sure if they are too wide for ham
links.
