they make radios for simplex only as well?
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From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: ideas


> Not sure why you mention needing cross band to hit your local repeaters.
> As far as irlp, I have built several nodes and have one on a repeater here
> at my house.  You can use a simples radio on i r l p and it will work
> fine.  You can shop around and find some commercial stuff fairly cheap
> that will work great for this.  If you want to buy one, the alinco, forget
> the number has a serial port in it.  It works fairly well.  If you're
> wanting to use a radio on a repeater frequency and have that radio talk to
> the repeater so the repeater is on i r l p, this opens up a whoe other can
> of worms.  One of our clubs does it here, and it sort of works, but not at
> all well on reflectors.  To do it right, you need a dedicated link radio
> at the repeater site.  If I were going to do it, I'd just put up a simplex
> radio on i r l p and use an ht around the house.  Actually with a good
> outdoor antenna on the node, you'll get fair coverage, even on simples.
> If you get serious about a node, I'll be glad to help if I can.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
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