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Simple I have a R*I*C*K and would like to put it to work so my question is what radio will work the best for light duty in unidirectional way

Depends on if your unit came with cables.

I used a pair of M120's with a rick with good results. You just have to remember, cooling is an issue, I'd put it with some sort of fan or other cooling measures on the TX radio. I have a big old computer fan hooked up to my repeater, and it works fine.

Most RICK repeaters i've seen use Radius / Maxtrac Series, or if you have the cables, CDM's

And as you stated, these are only good for low power light duty use, not 100% duty cycle at all. Mine is TOT's for 80 seconds on TX at 25 watts.

Do you put your RICK in a cabinet of some kind? How to you keep it from overheating if you are not around to know it is?

yes i have all the cables and i used two cdm1250's before connecting the 16pin accessory plug tx radio to the j3-tx plug on the rick and the 16pin accessory plug of the rx radio to the j5-rx plug on the rick but the cdm's are reel expensive radios so i was looking to get a older less expensive radio, also the programming on the cdm is more complicated so had to order a instruction manual for the rick to cdm from moto and the cdm’s did not perform well so I decided to get a set of older less expensive and less complicated radios the only question is what is the best radios for this project.

Well I have used everything from a CDM1550LS+ down to the M120. Lets see...SM50, M1225, GM300, Maxtrac, Radius. All are fine units with the Rick. Just need to program appropriately is all. I currently have one repeater running 1225 mobiles, and another with Maxtracs. In addition I made a cable and have an ICOM as a TX radio on one. the RICK is a versitle basic repeater module and should work with any radio you hook up.

JAS