Chuck Wood
THE HIGH SPLIT RANGER WORKS FROM 35-50 IN A MOBILE ENVIORNMENT NO FILTERING
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IS NECESSARY. I REALLY DONT BELIEVE THIS BABY MONITOR OR CORDLESS THING. IF YOU WANT TO USE IT AS A RPT. DO THE NORMAL PASS CAVITY STUFF. BUT PREFERABILY GET A MASTER II LOW BAND AND BUY THE XTALS AND DO IT THAT WAY. IF YOU CAN LOCATE A BASE STATION THEY ARE CONTINUOUS DUTY. MY SIX METER RPT IS A LINKED VOTED SYSTEM WHERE THE RECEIVERS ARE LOCATED AWAY FROM THE XMITTER AND LINKED AND VOTED. ONE OF THE RECEIVERS IS A RANGER AND I HAVE NOT HAD ONE BIT OF TROUBLE WITH IT ON SIX. THE REASON WE ARE USING GE RADIOS INSTEAD OF MOTOROLA IS THAT GE HAS SEPERATE RCVRS AND XMITTERS ON THE XTAL RADIOS WHERE MOTO HAS THEM ALL ON ONE BOARD. LOOK AT THEM. YOU CAN PUT A GE VHF RCVR AND AUHF XMITTER TOGETHER AND HAVE A INSTANT LINK. ALSO THEY ARE BASIC RADIOS THAT ARE OF THE LAST AND BEST XTAL GENERATION. THEY ARE EXTREMELY TIGHT,SIMPLE, EASIALLY AVAILABLE AND OVER ALL VERY GOOD BE IT THE MVP THE EXEC II OR THE MASTER II . A FRIEND ONCE TOLD ME TO QUIT MESSING WITH MOTO WHICH YOU HAD TO CHANGE CAPS AND DO EXTENSIVE MODS ON TO GET INTO THE HAM BANDS AND USE GE INSTEAD. I FINALLY LOOKED AT THEM AND REALIZED THEY WERE THE BEST FOR HAM USE. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT ALL THIS TALK ON THE NET ABOUT GE VS MOTO AND REALIZE SOME OF THESE GUYS ARE WHERE I WAS 10-15 YEARS AGO. TRUST ME UNLESS THE MOTO IS ALREADY A REPEATER AND ON THE BAND YOU WANT YOU CANT BEAT THE GE STUFF. AND I DARE ANY ONE TO TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BY LISTENING TO IT. ALSO YOUR GE UHF RANGER DOES NOT HAVE HELICALS THE RANGER SERIES HAD A TUNED FILTER THAT WAS NOT A HELICAL IT WAS SOME SORT OF FIXED XTAL FILTER. LOOK AT IT THERE ARE NO TUNING SLUGS.-- GOOD LUCK KEEP ME POSTED. CHUCK WD6APP--Original Message-----
From: Tedd Doda <lazer@...> To: repeater-builder@... <repeater-builder@...> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 10:34 AM Subject: [repeater-builder] Re: GE Ranger for 6 meters? [update] From: "Tedd Doda" <lazer@...>BUT THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF EASIALLY FILTERING THEM. ISERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT AI'd like to hear your ideas about filtering. Because I'm using |