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Surfin’: Repeater Help Online

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
April 15, 2005

This week, we look at a Web site that will help you with the care and feeding of repeaters.

The Repeater Builders Technical Information Page is a great resource for hams with repeaters.

Kevin Custer, W3KKC, put together The Repeater Builders Technical Information Page to help other people build and maintain their repeaters. The site deals mainly with various Motorola®, and GE ® Mobile modifications for duplex repeater operation, however, every repeater builder and tinkerer will find useful information on this Web site.

The Web site covers repeater transmitters, receivers, power supplies, control circuits, antennas, duplexers, circulators, isolators, feedlines and even repeater site topics. If you cannot find what you are looking for on the site, you can try the repeater builders’ e-mail list server.

There are lots of neat useful things on this site like a “Repeater Builders Check List,” which is a reference list for acquiring parts to build a repeater; “Repeaterisms,” audio tracks by a professional radio announcer narrating good repeater operating practices/procedures; and an RF Safety Calculator to determine RF power density.

Thank you Mike Morris WA6ILQ, for suggesting this week’s Web site.

Until next week, keep on surfin’.

Editor’ note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, looked it up and discovered that he made his first repeater contact via 450-MHz almost 33 years ago using a Motorola boat anchor. To discuss the good old days when you logged everything, e-mail Stan.

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