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Cincinnati Its a very heavy RF site with 5 other towers around it. Mostly microwave and appears 800Mghz (I think) in the room that we have. I'm sure this had some factor in the failure. I am in the works now of a second site. I have to attend another City meeting for final approval and it could all fall apart but it would be great to consult with you guys regarding the antenna choice and setup if that's okay? Thanks again Gortex2 Marcspaz for the information WSCP709 used to be WQXC777 Cincinnati 7250

You are 100 % correct. I have went to the site today before I seen you post and put a dummy load on the TX side of the Telewave and plugged the TX antenna into the PA of the repeater. It was unable to receive and just kept dropping out when someone would key up with no audio. Obvious desense. Oh well, it probably not worth the trouble to get it retuned on site to adapt as my access to the DB420 could go away at any time. Thanks you all for your help with this. What a learning experience!

Yes, I realize that now. Outside of my login not working as it error out, it posted anyways

Hi to everyone. I have a rather unusual question. I have a repeater on a commercial tower. It is currently running on a 9Db Station Master at 143 feet. There is an recently abandoned DB420 that I have access to. It is located at 150 feet. I have tested the repeater on the DB420 and the RX is nearly twice as good but the TX is far weaker. My SWR is about 1.6 I suspect he DB420 is a little off on frequency and may be the cause for the poor TX performance. Here is my question I have a 4 can Telewave TPRD 4554 duplexer. Can I simply plug the DB420 on the 2 RX side cans and the Station Master on the 2 TX cans? This would meant I remove the combining jumper in between the cans where it goes into 1 antenna. Meaning I would have a seperate TX and RX antenna but keep the duplexer to avoid desense? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

Hi to everyone. I have a rather unusual question. I have a repeater on a commercial tower. It is currently running on a 9Db Station Master at 143 feet. There is an recently abandoned DB420 that I have access to. It is located at 150 feet. I have tested the repeater on the DB420 and the RX is nearly twice as good but the TX is far weaker. My SWR is about 1.6 I suspect he DB420 is a little off on frequency and may be the cause for the poor TX performance. Here is my question I have a 4 can Telewave TPRD 4554 duplexer. Can I simply plug the DB420 on the 2 RX side cans and the Station Master on the 2 TX cans? This would meant I remove the combining jumper in between the cans where it goes into 1 antenna. Meaning I would have a seperate TX and RX antenna but keep the duplexer to avoid desense? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

Hi to everyone. I have a rather unusual question. I have a repeater on a commercial tower. It is currently running on a 9Db Station Master at 143 feet. There is an recently abandoned DB420 that I have access to. It is located at 150 feet. I have tested the repeater on the DB420 and the RX is nearly twice as good but the TX is far weaker. My SWR is about 1.6 I suspect he DB420 is a little off on frequency and may be the cause for the poor TX performance. Here is my question I have a 4 can Telewave TPRD 4554 duplexer. Can I simply plug the DB420 on the 2 RX side cans and the Station Master on the 2 TX cans? This would meant I remove the combining jumper in between the cans where it goes into 1 antenna. Meaning I would have a seperate TX and RX antenna but keep the duplexer to avoid desense? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks