I’d vote for the Mother /\/\.  Buy once, cry once.  

I seem to recall a few emails about high quality, commercial gear, for “when all else fails”. 

Biggest issues I can see are it’s only 25w at 100% duty cycle- and still only gives you 50w at 50% duty cycle. Is 25W based on antenna height sufficient?   

It’s also an amateur built radio, vice 100% full duty cycle commercial/ public safety gear.  

That said, the Kenwood radio does like a pretty cool repeater system- especially when building a set of linked repeaters. And has a great price point.   DMR would be a nice add. (Although I’m a Yaesu  guy myself). I’ve read that the NDX series doesn’t play nice with the  Bandmiester system 

73s,

Mike

AL3G

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On Apr 1, 2026, at 12:37, N5WTA N5WTA via K3CAL <k3cal@mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Agreed.  Ask for forgiveness at the meeting lol

Regards,

Johnathan Ibert

On Apr 1, 2026, at 12:27 PM, Andrew Charland via K3CAL <k3cal@mailman.qth.net> wrote:



Buy 'em!

Andy

KC3WRX 

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 12:17 KB3WFV via K3CAL <k3cal@mailman.qth.net> wrote:

The attachment did not go through. So here is a link to the Kenwood Brochure....

https://comms.kenwood.com/common/pdf/download/NXR1K(RPT)_1700_1800_AMERICAS_Specsheet.pdf

Brian
KB3WFV

On Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 11:59:57 AM EDT, KB3WFV via K3CAL <k3cal@mailman.qth.net> wrote:

I have had several requests to pass along more detail about the Kenwood NXR 1700 VHF and NXR 1800 UHF repeaters.

These repeaters are natively FM analog and will be linked together through VoIP on a private VLAN network connection between Sunderland and Lusby. The estimated cost to replace BOTH the Sunderland and Lusby repeaters is estimated to be $6,000, programmed, tuned, with a networking license for both repeaters, and shipped.

Attached is a PDF brochure. The funtion manual is quite large, so here is a link to a PDF file available On-Line.

https://www.repeater-builder.com/kenwood/pdfs/kenwood-nxr-1700-function-reference.pdf

Enjoy,

Brian

KB3WFV

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