[OZAPRS] UHF APRS freqs in VK
Glen English VK1XX
glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au
Thu Nov 16 15:14:36 AEDT 2017
yeah it will be 1200 for the moment in 'Berra, or dual mode. IE can
accept both.
Down the track I will graft one of my old commercial design modems into
a ham one for getting 7800 bps down a standard FM microphone input ...
It wasnt really do-able until about a year ago with a single chip micro.
g
On 15/11/2017 7:11 PM, David Hardy wrote:
> It was discussed some years ago.
>
> 9.6 on 70cm for mobile use would be a quantum drop in performance in
> getting into a igate.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Andrew Rich
> Date:15/11/2017 14:36 (GMT+10:00)
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] UHF APRS freqs in VK
>
> Go 19k2
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 15 Nov 2017, at 1:24 pm, Matthew Cook <vk5zm at bistre.net
> <mailto:vk5zm at bistre.net>> wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned not easy, but not impossible either :)
>>
>> In liu of going around in circles then the question is where to move
>> it that will gain the support of the WIA TAC.
>>
>> There is no where that I can see within 430-440MHz where this could
>> go and co-site happily it's just too crowded.... so really the only
>> logical place is where you've already suggested between 441.000 &
>> 442.975 in the ALL MODE section... The complication here being it
>> won't work well co-sited with a DATV TX and at the other end you're
>> up against the top of the repeater links....
>>
>> Suggestions ?
>>
>> Matthew
>> VK5ZM
>>
>> On 15 November 2017 at 11:18, Glen English VK1XX
>> <glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au <mailto:glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matthew
>>
>> You are right about TX combining, but your argument does not
>> correctly
>> consider TX noise. You will need a cubic meter of filters to do
>> it with
>> a reasonable loss of < 3dB....
>>
>> You have to look at the percentages...
>>
>> 800kHz on 2m (your 145.175 with 1,6meg 2m repester offsets ) is OK.
>>
>> But 800kHz on 2m is NOT 800kHz on UHF, it is 2.4 MHz on UHF.
>>
>> 300kHz on UHF (what you proposed) is 100kHz on 2m.
>>
>> anyone care to build a 100kHz offset 2m duplexor ?
>>
>> at 300kHz away on UHF, most radios will be ~ 80dB down in a 16kHz
>> bandwidth .
>> so if we have +43dBm TX, noise is -37dBm.
>>
>> if we are on the same coax , we need the difference of -127 -
>> -37 = 90dB
>>
>> if we are on a split antenna system (all TX in ANT1, all RX in
>> antenna
>> 2) then the isolation between the two antennas subtracts from the
>> filter
>> requirement call it 40dB on 70cm, so now you require 50dB .
>>
>> 300kHz at UHF is 0.06% frequency spacing. This wont be practically
>> realisable with a bandpass-notch configuration because the return
>> loss
>> will suffer. Back to a bandpass configuration, 10dB isolation is
>> about
>> all you'll get so you'll need 5 x 6" 3/4 wave filters for about 7 dB
>> loss. and god awful return loss
>>
>> For fixing the return loss you could use a balanced hybrid
>> combiner, and
>> 2x the filters, so 10 x 6" filters and 2 hybrids will yield good
>> return
>> loss and perhaps 6-7dB loss for your 50dB....
>>
>> It's clearly not too easy.
>>
>> -glen
>>
>>
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