[Gonset] 2 Meter AM Repeater

[Steve Harrison]

AHHHhhh, 2m AM repeaters... Were there such an animal accessible from 
here in the hi desert, I'd have to go find an old Heath Seneca and fix 
it up, along with a SB300 and the 2m nuvistor converter for the 
"ears"...  8-D

I wonder what the SoCal repeater coordination committee would say about 
an application to set up such a device these days??   ?8-/

Does anybody else rember the 2m AM "repeater" that some shop teacher and 
his students set up at Redondo Beach High (or was it Torrance High??) 
back around '64 or so?? IIRC, it used a Gooney II for the "heart" and 
fed a surplus AM VHF transmitter running a pair of push-pull 100THs 
(maybe 75THs??) with another pair modulating the finals. They used to 
broadcast their football games from the home stadium at Redondo Beach 
high and when they were on the air, supposedly wiped out all the higher 
TV channels throughout the area from Palos Verdes to Santa Monica and 
all the way east past Compton into part of Orange county, as well as all 
of the local cop car radios AND the LAX air traffic control ===8-P It's 
demise came about when the Long Beach FCC crashed in during their 
Homecoming football game and shut them down just when they were 
excitedly announcing a touchdown 8-(

Steve, K0XP


On 12/17/2023 9:15 AM, Geoff Fors wrote:
> The only 2 Meter AM repeater I ever knew about was the Los Angeles 
> area homebrew one by Art Gentry that had the callsign K6MYK, circa 
> 1960+.  By 1970 most of us thought "AM? Yuck!"  But over the years I 
> have grown nostalgic and now miss it.
>
> I have been thinking about putting together an AM repeater up here in 
> Monterey for 6 and 2 Meters but mountaintop space is becoming an 
> increasing hassle and I have no one else interested in joining me on it.
>
> I have a couple of  2 Meter Communicator IV's gathering dust, and 
> several 6 meter Communicator II's and a III on 6 Meters.
>
> As far as whether there were any commercially made AM repeaters, I am 
> drawing a blank.  For 2 Meters I was thinking about using one of those 
> FAA surplus aircraft band tower rack receivers and moving it to 144 
> Mc/s and cobbling in a level activated COR.  Or maybe using a Motorola 
> Sensicon A receiver and tapping signal out prior to the limiters and 
> building a detector and level activated squelch.  I can't recall how 
> low the cavity pipes tune in those...I had one on 144.83 for a local 
> FM system years ago 40 years ago so they do tune at least that low.
>
> If I lived in  a big city I would try to drum up 6 and 2 AM activity, 
> but I am in the boondocks in a canyon here. I would have to take my 
> Gonsets on road trips, and then only if there were someone to talk to!
>
> Geoff
> WB6NVH
> Monterey CA
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Signorelli
> To: gonset at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2023 8:08 AM
> Subject: [Gonset] WTB: 2 Meter AM Repeater
>
>
> Do you have an old  2 Meter AM Repeater out in your shack
> ready for redeployment?
> Maybe a few old Gooney birds that are broken?
> Paul   w0rw
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