Apco 25 Capable Repeater?

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Apco 25 Capable Repeater?

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Guys, Hopefully this can go into the general discussion area. I am wanting to build a repeater capable of passing the Apco 25 digital. I am looking at just purchasing a Quantar and putting it into mixed mode but 3000 is hard to swallow. Anyone have some other ideas other then scrapping this? O yah it will be for ham and it will be on VHF
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call bro comm


$2500 for a range 1 vhf quantar can't be beat.


if you think that's high, then you are in the wrong game.... sorry, but true.




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$3,000? I thought that was like $10K+
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I just talked to Richard over there and he has plenty of them. Now I am just being cheap.
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problem..

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I have one of those...it works flawlessly.....

Make sure the firmware is IMBE capable...some are and some are not....

Our first one was IMBE out of the box....
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Has anyone built a poor mans P25 capable repeater?
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Yes, people have figured out how to do it, however, it lacks several features to the best of my knoledge.

It has not been posted on here how this has been accomplished.

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Post by Bob »

It CAN be done with a couple maxtracs. You can wire a couple maxtracs together to pass just about anything, including PL, DPL, encryption, and IMBE.

I've seen it functional, but I haven't seen the actual mods.
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[email protected] wrote:Has anyone built a poor mans P25 capable repeater?
If you want to do it right, A/D the incoming data, reframe it, D/A, and retransmit, I think your answer is a Quantar. If you want to simply repeat the audio, you need something that will repeat completely flat audio from 0-5KHz. It's do-able...
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If someone tells me how to do it, I have people who can help me that are smart enough do it. Still trying to be cheap..
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