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Having grown tired of fumbling around with my attempts to homebrew my own repeater, I've just ordered a shiny new Bridgecom BCR-40U (400-470 MHz) UHF Repeater, complete with a properly tuned duplexer and the programming kit. It should be here within a week or less. I had my handy man out today taking advantage of the warmer weather and low winds to do some maintenance on my roof mounted antennas. One dual-band antenna's top section was lost several years ago (the VHF part), so I had him swap the coax over to another dual band that I'd put up some years ago as a backup. Hopefully all I'll need for the spring is to buy some 1/4" Superflex heliax and a better antenna for the repeater. I also made contact with another ham in the area who's kindly offered to (re)tune my existing duplexer.

We run MDC on all our units, each unit has it's own ID, the lone Vertex 210A is without MDC (I need to see if Vertex or someone makes a module we can install. We do post-ptt on our units. Zap turned me on to the Alias setup so each radio has all the aliases in them, example, my wife's mobile has a 4 digit ID of 1956 which shows as David 56. Oddly my Astro Saber's seem to not have the chirp sound on unkey of my other radios. We run Astro Saber's and PM400's on the system. We are also using 2 tone QC on the radios.