[aprssig] HF APRS Transceiver

[Rich Garcia]

I always found that to be quite interesting. In the USA on occasion you can
see a Motorola Micor I believe on HF but that is about it. I know that
Harris has made commerical HF radios but never seen them up for sale
surplus.

How large and expensive are they over there? I wonder if it would be cost
feasable to search long distance to purchase one if interested?

I ran a HFGate for over 8 years on a Kenwood TS-850S/AT 24/7 365 and after 2
trips to the repair station and the APRS-IS going on line I gave up. That
was/is a great rig and should not be wasted on one specific frequency
getting very little use.

Rich
K4GPS

-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Ray Wells
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:05 PM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] HF APRS Transceiver


SNIP>>
The use of ex-commercial SSB rigs for HF packet is not unusual over
here. I have two such rigs here for packet, one on 40m and the other on
20m, and their performance is more than acceptable. I only ever buy
commercial spec crystals that are manufactured to the radio
manufacturer's specifications for the radio. There's no such thing as a
one size fits all when it comes to crystals, and the extra cost for the
right crystal pays dividend.

Ray vk2tv


_______________________________________________
aprssig mailing list
aprssig at lists.tapr.org
https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig