This is so interesting.  You and John sound like interesting people to talk 
too.  Do you have skype?  Pam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Managing a repeater


>I have a kenwood 820 on uhf and considering the 850.  I put up one of
> those for our club in Las Vegas a year or so ago.  A little of the
> programming software is accessible, but I find much of it is not.  I'm
> fortunate in that I use to do commercial stuff so I have a service monitor
> and I can tune my duplexers.  I control the ifr 1200 with a program I
> wrote in basic and then compiled.  I can recall memories, take meter
> readings every so many seconds and so forth with this little program.  Of
> corse the ifr makes it easy to tune up the machine, check receiver and so
> forth.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR