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XPR Repeater use for 5550's

ve7zzh

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I am trying to get two 5550's to work as a portable repeater setup on our remote site for the mountain crew. Although I thought I had the wiring down, is there anyone that has done this with a diagram??
 

Firebuff880

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Specifically TX to Rx and COR to PTT. But unless this is an Analog back-to-back on different/properly separated freqs this is not a good idea. Maybe you should look at the SLR-1000 repeater.
 

ve7zzh

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Specifically TX to Rx and COR to PTT. But unless this is an Analog back-to-back on different/properly separated freqs this is not a good idea. Maybe you should look at the SLR-1000 repeater.
Exactly, it is only for a portable analog repeater and the separation between RX/TX is 5.6Mhz. We are using this for the mountain crew when they are scaling the rock face. Our work is on a glacier and we are rerouting the access road. Thanks for that, I'm off on rotation and will try this when back at camp.
 

DeoVindice

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Exactly, it is only for a portable analog repeater and the separation between RX/TX is 5.6Mhz. We are using this for the mountain crew when they are scaling the rock face. Our work is on a glacier and we are rerouting the access road. Thanks for that, I'm off on rotation and will try this when back at camp.
Do you have a duplexer tuned for your frequencies?
 
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