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<div>It was discussed some years ago.</div>
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<div>9.6 on 70cm for mobile use would be a quantum drop in performance in getting into a igate.</div>
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From: Andrew Rich <br>
Date:15/11/2017 14:36 (GMT+10:00) <br>
To: Australian APRS Users <br>
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] UHF APRS freqs in VK <br>
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<div>Go 19k2 <br>
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On 15 Nov 2017, at 1:24 pm, Matthew Cook <<a href="mailto:vk5zm@bistre.net">vk5zm@bistre.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">As I mentioned not easy, but not impossible either :)
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<div>In liu of going around in circles then the question is where to move it that will gain the support of the WIA TAC.</div>
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<div>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....</div>
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<div>Suggestions ?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 November 2017 at 11:18, Glen English VK1XX <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:glenlist@pacificmedia.com.au" target="_blank">glenlist@pacificmedia.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Matthew<br>
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You are right about TX combining, but your argument does not correctly<br>
consider TX noise. You will need a cubic meter of filters to do it with<br>
a reasonable loss of < 3dB....<br>
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You have to look at the percentages...<br>
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800kHz on 2m (your 145.175 with 1,6meg 2m repester offsets ) is OK.<br>
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But 800kHz on 2m is NOT 800kHz on UHF, it is 2.4 MHz on UHF.<br>
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300kHz on UHF (what you proposed) is 100kHz on 2m.<br>
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anyone care to build a 100kHz offset 2m duplexor ?<br>
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at 300kHz away on UHF, most radios will be ~ 80dB down in a 16kHz<br>
bandwidth .<br>
so if we have +43dBm TX, noise is -37dBm.<br>
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if we are on the same coax , we need the difference of -127 - -37 = 90dB<br>
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if we are on a split antenna system (all TX in ANT1, all RX in antenna<br>
2) then the isolation between the two antennas subtracts from the filter<br>
requirement call it 40dB on 70cm, so now you require 50dB .<br>
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300kHz at UHF is 0.06% frequency spacing. This wont be practically<br>
realisable with a bandpass-notch configuration because the return loss<br>
will suffer. Back to a bandpass configuration, 10dB isolation is about<br>
all you'll get so you'll need 5 x 6" 3/4 wave filters for about 7 dB<br>
loss. and god awful return loss<br>
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For fixing the return loss you could use a balanced hybrid combiner, and<br>
2x the filters, so 10 x 6" filters and 2 hybrids will yield good return<br>
loss and perhaps 6-7dB loss for your 50dB....<br>
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It's clearly not too easy.<br>
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