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Re: GE Ranger for 6 meters? [update]


Chuck Wood
 

THE HIGH SPLIT RANGER WORKS FROM 35-50 IN A MOBILE ENVIORNMENT NO FILTERING
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@...>

Hi Chuck:

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:11:35 -0800, Chuck Wood wrote:

I HAVE ONE ON A MOUNTAIN 3500 FEET NO PROBLEM. YES THEY ARE WIDE BAND.
BUT
THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF EASIALLY FILTERING THEM. ISERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT A
BABY MONITOR COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS.
I'd like to hear your ideas about filtering. Because I'm using
notch only filters, each offending frequency would need it's
own filter. Is there a "intermod" style filter available for 6?

YOU CANNOT DUPLEX A PLL RADIO THEY MUST
BE XTAL OR YOU NEED TO USE TWO OF THEM .
Thanks.

ANYONE WHO DOESNT WANT THEIR
RANGERS JUST SEND THEM TO ME ILL SUFFER WITH THEM.
I've decided to get a couple to try them out. As I mentioned
before, I have a UHF Ranger, and it works very well, in a
high RF neighbourhood, probably due to the helical resonator
front end.

ALSO THE C.H.P. HAS
ABOUT 5000 OF THESE IN THEIR FLEET THEY MUST BE O.K..
On 6 meters???

Thanks for the input.


Tedd Doda CET

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