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Scom 7330 repeater controller software 8
hi , does anyone have any of the following ? a cable from a Kenwood T K R eight fifty to the S com seven three three zero controller ? and , I'm looking for a copy of the programming software for that controller . weird question , is there any blind hams on this list who may have used the programming software with a screen reader? And is that accessible? A screen reader is a piece of software that reads text on the screen out loud so someone who can't see the screen can hear it and interact with programs and a computer. Chad Nelson WI9HF/WRPL979 Janesville Wisconsin 608-754-8671 Send from my spectrum iPhone 16.
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DB-420 bottom half 470-490 MHz cut antenna project. 4
Hello RB members, I have a potential project that I thought I would list for those of you who like things like this. I have the bottom half of a Decibel DB-420 16-bay antenna array here that is cut for the 470-490MHz band according to the dipole loop sizes. They are a good 1.5-2" shorter than the 450-470MHz cut versions I have used in the past. The harness is in great shape and there is no damage to the hardware. Basically it is laid out like a DB-408 with the connector at the top of the harness to feed another DB-408 making up the full DB-420 16-bay array. I will ship it less the bottom half of the mast to anyone needing it or interested in a project for $150 + actual shipping to you. Maybe it can work on GMRS frequencies since they are quite broad banded, maybe the harness can be terminated at the mid-point connector and used as is, maybe someone can modify the harness and use it as is. Basically it is a project or for someone with a damaged bottom half of your DB-420 higher cut that needs the parts. I don't see many parts for these come up anywhere so I figured list for the RB group. Thanks for looking, Rick w6re
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whelen siren 43
i am looking for a dtmf decoder to connect to a receiver to decode our local ema whelen siren to give a message on the repeater that the sirens have been activated i monitor the frequency that they activate the sirens on and the dtmf is very fast i am sure different tone sequence has different meanings i just want an announcement that the sirens were set off ,any thoughts ? Thanks
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TKR720 for sale 3
Asking $300 obo + shipping...programmed in 462 range Chris WB5ITT
Started by Chris Boone WB5ITT @ · Most recent @
TKR-850-1 440-470MHz v.1 repeater for sale 2
Selling the last Kenwood TKR-850-1 UHF repeater I have in the system. We are going to simulcasting so all repeaters needed a 10MHz reference input for the time base stability required to simulcast. As a result I have pulled non 10MHz reference input repeaters we had in service. This is the very last TKR-850 we were using and was used with an external controller however it does have internal control if desired. Not much more to say as it has worked well and been on the air over a decade. It is a version 1 that is tuned to the 447/442MHz band area right now. It is fully functional with power turned down to around 5 or 6 Watts at the present time. Rated at 25 Watts continuous duty, it has always driven an amplifier. $550 + actual shipping costs to your door CONUS 48. PayPal or Zelle preferred. Thanks for looking.
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Desense is driving me crazy 58
Desense is driving me crazy. Might be a short ride there. ? Warning: This will be long & descriptive. In hopes I cover everything for getting good advice in return. Last year I bought a new Yaesu DR-2X & a new Hustler G7-144. I'm using some older Andrew's 1/2 heliax. The duplexer was purchased from a wholesaler as new old stock. It's a Sinclair Q201GC 6 cavity (7" diameter) set in it's own cabinet. The data sheet says it left Sinclair in 2015. Originally tuned to 170Mhz. This makes the 4th repeater I've messed with in the 26+ yrs of being a ham. I've done lots of tower & antenna work over the years. I even used to work for a tower company many years ago climbing. One thing I never messed with was tuning duplexers. So this time I wanted to do everything myself. One reason was I didn't want to haul this large duplexer many miles away to get it tuned. I didn't have a safe way to haul it sitting upright (vertical). So I decided it was time to invest in some test equipment. For tuning & other ham radio projects. Originally I already had a Lite VNA 64. I used it to check the duplexer cavities individually to see if they will tune down from 170MHz to 145MHz. They looked like they would. So I decided to move forward with this set. Now, as I mentioned, I was told these were "new old stock". They look great! Still shiny. They had a cardboard box cover over the cabinet for shipping. Plus as stated the data sheet from Sinclair inside. One thing that strikes me as odd, was all 6 of the brass dust covers for the trim capacitors were missing. I'm to understand those are important to keep the caps clean. I've gotten some great help from people here on repeater builder to get started. I may have even gotten on some nerves asking so many questions lol. It was mentioned I will need to make a new harness for the duplexer to get it down to 145.330. I was able to get information on the correct lengths for the cables. Using RG214U & silver N hex crimp-on connectors. I made each cable 13.5 inches long. I used silver plated amphenol tees. I had to buy the tees used. As they were impossible to find new at a reasonable price. With the cable, connectors & tools I had nearly $300 dollars tied up in just materials to make the harness. I needed some more test equipment to begin alignment of the duplexer. Keep in mind this is my first time tuning a duplexer & getting equipment for it. I was originally going to invest in a used VNA like HP, Keysight etc. But the turn off there was age of equipment vs cost. Then being worried about buying old equipment that might be a problem later with failing parts due to age of components. Then finding parts to repair them. Plus most everything that was suggested still only had about 100db of dynamic range. Which wasn't going to be enough for this duplexer. I started looking around at other equipment that's newer. Plus more in my budget. I decided to buy a LibreVNA. It's advised as 90 to 100db of dynamic range & seemed to be better than my Lite VNA 64. It still wasn't going to get me past 100db for final tuning. But it was great for all the individual cavity tuning. To final tune I decided to buy a Siglent SSA3021X + spectrum analyzer with tracking generator. I used this stuff to tune the duplexer. It appeared to have about 120db of rejection. When I hooked everything up & started testing out the repeater it all worked OK. But I'm not one to just stop there. So I decided to start testing for desense. I also have a TinySA ultra. This has a spectrum analyzer plus a signal generator. I'd generate a low power signal with that & listen to the DR-2X receiver speaker by ear. Get the signal down low & listen. Then engage the transmitter & listen for any changes to how the receiver sounds via the speaker. Sure enough I was hearing changes aka desense. I tried this with the repeater hooked to the coax & antenna. Then I'd try it into a 250 watt TX/RX dummy load. It was worse with the coax & antenna hooked up. But it was also still slightly present into the dummy load that bypassed the hardline & antenna. Now for the coax & anten
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Needed: PMLN5644 rear connector board for XPR8400 2
I am in need of one PMLN5644BS rear connector board for an XPR8400. This is the board in the rear of the repeater that has the accessory connector and Ethernet connector on it. Please message me at my email or my email listed on qrz if you have one you want to sell/part with. Thank you, Jacob AD0JA Picture of what I need:
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Looking for a connector 4
I¡¯m looking for the connector to go on the back or the whole cable kit for a dc backup on a quantar. Does anyone here have anything they would be willing to part with? I can¡¯t find anything online. Thanks!
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F/S MicroMagic UHF duplexer 6 cavity 10
I have for sale this Micro Magic 6 cavity flat pack duplexer in very good shape. Currently tuned for 462.65TX 467.65 RX with N female connectors. model: MICRO-4201-C6-3 S/N: 011422010 micromagic2way.com This is lightly used but has a couple of minor scratches, but otherwise works great. I believe this is able to be tuned into the 70cm ham band if desired. I will ship for $75.00, brand new over $160.00 I have jumpers for TX and RX if needed, will throw those in. 73 Chad WI9HF
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Source of Toshiba S-AU93 PA module for VXR-7000 ? 6
Have a VXR-7000 with no power out. S-AU93 module apparently 'cooked'. Various datasheets suggest this is a 50-60w part Hard to find a source, most searches end up referring to an S-AU3 - RF Parts... https://www.rfparts.com/sau3.html - 17w part. Oddly enough the FCC ID leads to documentation of two different units, each with a discrete PA transistor vs this integrated module. Any clues? Advice?
Started by Jim Aspinwall @ · Most recent @
Db products cable lengths
I have a db products 900 MHz duplexer. Inter cavity cables are there but I¡¯m looking for the cable lengths that go to the ¡°T¡± to the antenna. Anyone have any info on these? georgec w2db
Started by George Csahanin @
Kenwood TK790 problems 4
Hey guys have a couple of Kenwood TK790's with the same problems. 1 is installed in a truck for several years , and the truck is driven by 1 foreman who is a trusted and valued foreman. The other was pulled froma truck we decommissioned. The removal was done by our company owner who is a fellow ham and has done several of the installs himself over the years. The problem is that there is no transmit audio. Both radios are remote mount, and the mics have been tested on known good radios and are working fine. I was told that the control heads have been swapped and the problem persists. I Have not as of yet done any testing on the radio that is installed, as the guy whose truck it is in wasnt available today. Does anyone have any ideas...... I personally am leaning toward a bad interconnect cable, but as these radio are a bit older I am trying NOT to just be a "parts changer" and buy new remote cables on a guess. Howard
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Mastr II 800MHz PA 6
Hi all, Does anyone have any documentation on the Mastr II 800MHz PA's, or any Mastr II PA's at all? Follow up...has anyone ever modified one to 900MHz? Since all capacitors inside are fixed, there are not any adjustment points to slide it up. I have full power output on 860, and power drops significantly after 895. Just need to slide it up a little bit, but will need a schematic of it in order to figure out what new capacitors to stick inside. Thank you, Joe KC3LMP
Started by Joseph Mancino @ · Most recent @
Midland 91-1110 Basetech III intermittent receive 4
I'm troubleshooting a pair of 91-1110 VHF repeaters that both seem to exhibit the same issue: Intermittent receive. The units will work perfectly for days, then suddenly stop recognizing a receive signal (even with a comm analyzer on freq and PL connected to the RX N connector. Sometimes, immediately preceeding this failure mode, the BUSY light on the front panel will illuminate with a 1 bar signal shown on the LED display. Sometimes the machine will still work in this condition, other times it does not recognize a legitimate input signal (ie, on freq with correct PL) then the BUSY light will extinguish and the RX will be dead. No recognition of any on freq on PL signal into the RX input. If left alone, hours to days later, it recovers and once again receives and works normally. Then it fails again in the same cadence. Rinse and repeat... Having no familiarity with these machines and having only minimal data (the programming manual, user manual, and supplementary maintenance manual) I do not have enough data to go looking for the root cause of the intermittent failure. I thought logic issues, but I would not expect a logic fault to self clear, so I'm at a loss. Both machines were a "give away" from local public service, so I wonder if both were exhibiting this failure and discarded from use. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Any thoughts on where to focus troubleshooting? Furhter, soes anyone have a complete maintenance manual (not the addendum. I already have that)? Thanks for the assist Ron KA3JIJ
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Isolated Tee 15
One thing I'd like to have in my supply box is an iso-tee. Today while searching I came across this repeater builder post below. Then I found another site that sounds like the same thing but with pictures. The pictures helped me visualize it nicely. Are these good plans for one or should I keep looking around for a commercially made one on the used market? If so is there one recommended? On ebay I'm seeing a lot of sma connecter ones. I'd prefer N connectors if possible. Wanting it for repeater stuff. To test for desense & receiver sensitivity etc. https://repeater-builder.com/projects/iso-tee-project.html https://urgentcomm.com/tower-site/every-toolbox-needs-one-of-these
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VXR-9000 and Trident Raider 4
Has anyone had experience with a VXR-9000 and a Trident Raider LTR controller? I've got the carrier light on whenever I try to key up but I can't get the receive light to come on and handshake. I've tried messing with the dipswitch with no luck but I have no idea if I need to remove any jumpers or not, there's nothing about Vertex repeaters being used on Trident controllers. I've gone through and aligned both the repeater and controller.
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For Sale/Trade: (2) Kenwood TKR-840 UHF Repeaters 2
OK. Time to move these as we're trying to standardize our sites on two platforms, and these don't fit in. One is essentially new and unused and includes the accessory kit. Just tuned it up on a 449 pair, works fine. The other needs, er, decontamination. It lived at a site with a rodent problem. When removed from service it worked fine (upgraded to an integrated 110W station). Can test if there's interest. These are both the 450-470 version and both tuned into the amateur band without issue. A minor hex edit is required to the saved archive to get them in the ham band, but it's fully documented here on the list. I'll entertain trades for anyone that might have Midland 71-4xxx series Base Tech II equipment, or anything Palomar Telecom. Otherwise, please drop me an off-list email (my callsign at aol dot com) and make an offer on one, or preferably, both. The "used" unit was used with an RLC-4 for years and years without issue. Thanks! Chris/AJM -- Chris Baldwin, CETSr. (KF6AJM) Trustee - MetroNET Cal. Intertie (KB3PX)
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upgrade cdm 750 dash to 1250 remote 5
Is this possible to do? It's a low band d split 25 to 40 w.
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DB-4060-WOC-C For sale for sale
Decibel Product DB-4060-WOC-C for sale. It has not been modified for 144-148 MHz use. Pulled during system upgrade, very nice condition. I don¡¯t have the need or the time to modify them for amateur use. $500 plus shipping, from 89436 TNX Jim Sent from Outlook Virus-free.www.norton.com
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DB4060 Tuning Rod Replating 8
Has anyone had the plungers in the DB4060/4062 replated with silver before? I have a set that needs new plating and am in the process of getting a quote with a local company to get them done. If it's not too bad, I will probably do it. However, I'm unsure of the thickness of the plating. I'm thinking too little will cause the contacting fingers to dig through the plating into the brass, but too thick would make the surface too soft because of thick silver deposit and cause problems too. I was able to measure a piece that flaked off with a micrometer at half a thousandth of an inch. I'm also at the point where I don't want to invest anymore into these cans and just put the money towards a new set. What to do lol. Joe
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