kenwood tk-880 / repeater system

[rscofholt]

Any help would be great. I have a few kenwoods tk-880 laying around and would like to turn them into a small repeater system, Looking for help on getting a low cost system put in place. Not a clue on how to due it though i have been told its a easy task to do.


Thanks

Aj

 

[James04TJ]

More information is needed...

1) What service are you looking at operating in?
2) What other hardware do you have?
3) What kind of tower site are you looking at supporting this?

The TK-880 is a mobile radio and is not designed for continuous duty transmit as required by a repeater station. You will also need power supplies, repeater controllers, duplexers, and since you mentioned a "system" you will also need a linking backhaul. While building a repeater is not rocket science, I fear that you may already be in over your head based upon your question.

 

[rscofholt]

i was looking at putting a gmrs repeater up here for the kids and not spending a ton.What i do have are the power supplies,i have a 15 ft tower,two tk-880-h,comtelco fiberglass antenna.

Thanks

AJ

 

[kayn1n32008]

i was looking at putting a gmrs repeater up here for the kids and not spending a ton.What i do have are the power supplies,i have a 15 ft tower,two tk-880-h,comtelco fiberglass antenna.

"What i do have are the power supplies,i have a 15 ft tower,two tk-880-h,comtelco fiberglass antenna"

im not going to deal with what the regs are for GMRS repeaters, i dont know, im not a US citizen. just talking about what else is needed to make a repeater out of what you have.

you are going to need to get:

1) duplexer
2) a repeater controller
3) schematics for the radio or acess to the schematics

you also need someone that knows how to connect the radios to the controller, set the audio levels, and program both the radios and controller. as well someone who can tune the duplexer and the antenna.

i would suggest setting the power to about 5watts at the duplexer antenna connector. as another poster stated, the radio is not designed for continous duty.

based on the language you used in your origional question, this is something you may not want to try to do on your own.