ah, good point about the sig gen and the receiver to tune the cans.

thanks for the explanation...I wasn't familiar with the IFR1200 so I didn't 
know exactly what it does.

I've been instrumental in building up a fairly involved repeater system in 
the last year or two so I've been learning allot about duplexers and 
multi-cupplers and BP and BPBR cans and res locks and all the rest. 
Controllers, linking radios, VHF and UHF repeaters and link radios 
multi-cuppled into the same antenna arrays and so forth.
I'd like to be able to put my theoretical knowledge to practical use with 
regard to tuning cans and tuning up commercial repeaters into the ham band 
and all that kind of stuff.
Signal generators are becoming fairly cheap and easy to find if you don't 
mind older analogue units.
I see them at flea markets quite often.
Right now we depend on two guys to tune all the duplexers and get the 
repeaters and link radios into the ham band on VHF and UHF.
Having an extra resource, IE me to be able to do some of that would be 
benificial for the group I think.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: uva-5r question


>I forgot, mine does not have a spectrom analyzer.  I have no trouble
> tuning duplexers for rejection and band pass.  I use an external receiver
> and feed the generater through the duplexer.  I wish I had a sweep
> generator, but mline doesn't have that.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.