Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Sep 20 2016 08:16 am

-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to BOB SEABORN <=-

 BS> The cost of an 11 metre duplexer would be horrendous, not so with a
 BS> 70centimetre one, not to mention the physical size and gain of the
 BS> relative antennae.

 JA> Yeah - guess I'm thinking of the old US CB. :-)

Yes, that would be a BIG duplexer.  Many 10m repeaters go for multiple sites
instead of a duplexer.  As for UHF CB, well, the frequncy is nice to handle,
but the split is wicked.  I did read somewhere that the first time a cavity
manufacturer was given the specs, they were like "Are you kidding?".  The split
is only 750 kHz on a 477 MHz carrier frequency.  Much less than the typical ham
or commercial UHF repeater.

 JA> To have had a repeater back in the day...

Would have been, umm, interesting.  I do enjoy 10m FM when the band opens.


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