Soliciting suggestions for analog 2 meter repeater

[cfa]

The DR1 did have lockup issues, but we have a DR-2X with the voice card for our club repeater and it has been solid. Most of it's use is in analog but its in AMS mode and does get some digital use. It takes normal AC as well as DC so you can easily set it up for emergency power. We have a few group 24 deep cycle batteries on ours for when the power goes out. 

Yaesu runs 50% off specials for clubs who leave it in AMS mode for at least a year, so we rolled the dice. $900 for a brand new repeater with a 3yr warranty is hard to beat. It has a hot receiver so make sure your duplexer is up to snuff.  

 

[WRYZ926]

We finally had a chance to put our Motorola Quantar repeater and Arcom RC-210 controller online yesterday. Man what a difference it made. This setup works a lot better than our older Motorola repeater using a Raspberry Pi as a controller. We still have a few bugs to work out and tweaks to make but overall I am highly impressed with the new setup.

There is always a learning curve with any new setup and the hardest part was programming all of the extra features in the controller. 

One hint if using this setup. Make sure to shut the time out timer completely off in the Quantar if you are using a time out timer in a controller. We missed that and it did cause some issues last night until we shut the TOT off in the repeater.