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Apco 25 Capable Repeater?
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:20 pm
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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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:41 pm
by batdude
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.
doug
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:15 pm
by nmfire10
$3,000? I thought that was like $10K+
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:22 pm
I just talked to Richard over there and he has plenty of them. Now I am just being cheap.
problem..
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:32 pm
by nickjc
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....
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:43 pm
Has anyone built a poor mans P25 capable repeater?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:35 am
by alex
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.
-Alex
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:32 pm
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:12 pm
by tvsjr
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...
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:31 pm
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..