[Motorola] MICOR repeater UHF

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Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:33:13 -0500


Glenn,

There are other jumpers associated with carrier squelch i.e. Ju4 on the
sq gate............ Check those....

Regards,

Rich

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:00:38 -0500 Glenn Little <[email protected]>
writes:
> We finally got our MICOR UHF repeater going somewhat correctly.  
> Turns out 
> we had low drive to the tripler from the exciter.  Original problem 
> was low 
> power out which we thought was normal for the radio being used out 
> of 
> band.  The day after the repeater was placed on site the power out 
> dropped 
> to zero.  After a few false starts, the problem was localized to the 
> filter 
> between the exciter and the tripler.  After retuning this filter, 
> the power 
> went right back to where it was in commercial service.  Still think 
> that we 
> have a problem with loss in the circulator, but that appears to be 
> acceptable.
> 
> We now cannot get rid of the squelch taiol on the repeater.  The 
> repeater 
> was originall a DPL encode and decode unit. We are using it as 
> carrier 
> squelch.  We moved the obvious jumper to convert the unit from DPL 
> to 
> carrier squelch.  Does anyone have a list of what has to be changed 
> to get 
> rid of the squelch tail?  Any help greatly appreciated.  This 
> repeater is 
> used to link a number of repeaters together and the squelch tail is 
> anoying. We do not really want to use PL as the decode time chops 
> the first 
> word.
> 
> Thanks
> 73
> Glenn
> WB4UIV
> 
>
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