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WQTS528

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    WQTS528 reacted to Radioguy7268 in Jiesai duplexers   
    If you've already got the existing (and properly tuned) Celwave 6 cavity notch duplexer, I'd improve the situation by just putting a tuned bandpass cavity on the receive side. 
     
    I've always been leery of running notch duplexers on any type of high power/high performance machine. When you're dealing with isolation figures less than 60 dB, every increase in transmit power is also an increase in noise on the receive side. One of my eye opening experiences in the early days of my radio career was watching an old-time tech turn DOWN the power on a repeater to increase the actual performance of the system. Suddenly, handheld portables on the edge of the system were now getting in cleanly - effectively increasing the usable range of the system.
     
    Also, make sure that your jumper cables between the repeater and duplexer are up to the task. I've seen lots of duplexers get blamed for poor performance, when it was really the old, cracked jumpers that were causing all the problems.
     
    I have used some of the 8 cavity notch duplexers for on-site repeaters running at 10 watts or less, and I've found them to be a good option. I've also seen a great variation in the tuning ability of different Chinese suppliers for their duplexers. If you're buying one that is supposed to be tuned, you better have a way to verify it.
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    WQTS528 reacted to berkinet in Duplexer Question   
    To the OP on this topic. Maybe you did, or maybe you didn't like the responses to your question. But, since two people took the time to give you some useful links and information to help answer your question. I would think some recognition on your part might have been nice.
     
    For all I know, you may never have even bothered to read the responses, in which case we just wasted our time. I suspect the responses weren't horribly inaccurate, since 4 people seem to have liked them. Maybe you wanted better answers, or just didn't find the responses useful, in which case you could at least provide a little feedback so as to the issue.
     
    But, if users here are going to ask people to take their time to try and help them, then at an absolute minimum, they should be prepared to acknowledge the effort.
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