Wow, that house has a nice view. It must have been nice to have a place up there before all the RF moved in. As for 900MHz, just like 220MHz, its a very underutilized band. It's pretty easy to setup an antenna for that band. There are considerably affordable panel antennas that have as much as 11dbd gain that also have a pretty small footprint that make great ways of getting into sights that might be far away. I've used a panel antenna to get into a 900MHz repeater 72 miles away with no problems at all!
Yeah there’s several houses converted to RF facilities on that mountain. There’s a modern house next to some of the towers that just got built, a little pricey tho www.zillow.com/homedetails/21049-Cedar-Lake-Rd-Golden-CO-80401/108397922_zpid/
Our public safety net in South Florida in the 80s, I was using 250 watt Motorola Repeaters on VHF Hi with Decible antennas configured elliptically with a 12db gain. That one site could talk from Naples FL to almost Tampa. Handheld we actually could talk from the Skyway to Naples. But those days are long gone
Those cavity filters are hard to come by because I use those for simulcast reception on my scanner really helps but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who can't afford these things at least mine were given to me free of charge and they were tuned properly to the 800 MHz portion of the band to where I was going to receive on so my local trunking system now is coming in great on my BCD 436 perfectly loud and clear no error rates or anything because these cavity filters really know how to not everything out and filter everything kind of like what a water filter does
Awesome Skyler- at 75 watts on your 900Mhz repeater, I assume you are melting any chipmunks that dare approach the coax- FB! As always, another fantastic job in engineering- 73 de Paul N0AH/3
Thanks Paul! I've got some time to go put some footage together stuck at home here. Yup, I wouldn't stand on front of that antenna when TX, I can turn it up to 100 Watts if needed lol.
churchof destiny is using RU-vid live and Colorado has a transmitter receive and attena is the same spot using sdr so they dont hear it we have a radio TV college when people put 108 attena over 900 it the last radio stationis frequency 108.0
Hey Jeff, The antenna model is Amphenol RWA-8009. Got it from a local ham when he moved his repeater to an omni antenna. Decided semi-directional would work out for me because there is lots of rock and mountain behind it, and it wouldn't cover too far that way anyway.
Hey i have done the same thing here in British Columbia canada, with our Motorola Quantar 900mhz and 440 mhz repeaters. Only i run my 900mhz repeaters on P25 Mode and all the pips and pops are gone. Much cleaner audio. Also my 440 mhz P25 repeaters are set to digital mode only.. We should link our nodes some time. VE7 IOX
There are about 6 Linked P25 900MHz repeaters here along the front range from Pueblo to Denver to Ft colins made by Tracy KI0HC. They work Very well and sound great! I am running mine only Analog because it is the only analog repeater left and it gives something for people to use their analog radios on.
Shouldn't be long now and you'll be needed more than you hobby made you think it would be. I'm so sorry you live in a Democrat ran state may Yah protect your much needed hobby
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