WX5812
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I’m concidering buying a cat 300dx. I know it’s not frequency agile but what is the difference between a remote base and a link radio?
Cat 300dx questions
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The CAT 300DX is a repeater/remote base controller. It has no radio. Therefore, there's nothing in a CAT 300DX to be frequency agile.
WX5812
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M aware of it not being frequency agile. But as I see on the cat 1000 for example it has ports for a link transceiver. And the 300 has ability to use a remote base. What is the difference?
If you have a receiver on your repeater's input frequency that is located at a remote location and it somehow passes the audio that it hears to the main repeater, that would be a link.
If you have a transceiver attached to the main repeater that can operate on frequencies different from the repeater, that's remote base.
These are the definitions that I carry in my head. Others may have differing opinions.
If you have a transceiver attached to the main repeater that can operate on frequencies different from the repeater, that's remote base.
These are the definitions that I carry in my head. Others may have differing opinions.
Also, after having used a CAT 300 DXL, an Arcom RC210, and an NHRC-7, my preference would be the Arcom. Programming it is a lot more straightforward than the others.
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