[Motorola] Whats your repeater frequency response (I'm ranting)

Zapper [email protected]
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:28:53 -0800


How many of you are running wideband repeaters for ham or commercial use?
Wideband meaning something other than 500 to 3Khz response without shaping.
I had to endure an hour of our local '85 swapshop earlier and it was bad.
Multi-site vote using GE Mastr-Pro receivers for remotes tied to I believe
some midevil Johnson UHF gear to link back to the main site that I think
also uses some Johnson mobile stuff to pump out a modulated carrier and gets
voted with a GE voter. One fellow checked in using one of those new Yaesu
HT's with the bad audio... you can imagine the rest.
Has anyone here given thought to the actual audio response of their
repeaters? We have 2 widebanders here locally (145.450 and mine) and when
talking to another who is running a Maratrac he sounds almost natural on my
Syntor-X and stock Moto speaker.
Must we really constrain ourselves to limited bandwidth on the hambands? Our
local police dept has an excellent response curve and it's Micor based UHF
so why can't we?

Sorry for the rant

Brad