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Repeater Manufacturers
Repeater Builder
Makers of quality custom built Motorola and GE Mobile and Station conversions.
Bridgecom Repeaters from Wadsworth Sales Nationwide sales of Bridgecom and other repeater equipment at discount prices!
Tell them repeater-builder.com sent you.
Hamtronics® REP-200, and other accessories for building repeaters.
Maggiore Electronics Labs Maggiore Repeater Equipment.
Aerotron-Repco Systems MPAC®
Base / Repeater stations.
Advanced Control Systems (Kendecom) (Micro Control Specialties) Lines include the "Mark 4" and the "KRP-5000"
Ritron Inc. RRX series plus other repeaters.
Spectrum Communications Corp.
Repeaters, Shielded Receiver or Transmitter Subassemblies, Other Boards and Accessories, Paging Transmitters, Power Amplifiers
New and Used Land Mobile Radio Equipment Suppliers Motorola®, GE®, Etc.
Air Comm In Phoenix for over 20 years.
Barnett Electronics, Inc. Sells used equipment from a huge warehouse in Arkansas.
Brinkley Electronics Also has a nice commercial radio cross reference page.
BroComm Corporation is a new and used equipment vendor in Ontario, Canada. They frequently have 136-150MHz and 406-420MHz equipment.
C. W. Wolfe Communications is
a used 2-way equipment vendor in Billings, Montana. They have a quarterly flyer that lists their inventory. They frequently have 406-420mhz and 136-150mhz equipment in stock.
Carrier Communications is a major
2-way outfit in Northern and Southern California and has a Used / Surplus Equipment web page that is updated frequently.
Commsource, Inc.
Dacom Rep for Daniels and Vega
Hamblin Communications Great source for GE Mastr II Mobile radios and parts.
MDM Radio, Chicago Ill.
New London Technology GE equipment
Sacramento Communications Surplus
Spantek Radio Ltd.
TelePath Corporation is a new and
used equipment vendor in San Jose California (south of San Francisco).
Versatel Communications
Repeater Controllers
 High-Value, Low-Cost Repeater Controller Solutions plus custom models for GE Mastr II, Custom MVP and other repeater related accessories. |
 Basic and Linker models available for a very affordable price from Brian KA9PMM. |
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Repeater/Link/Remote-Base Controllers and Accessories from Ken Arck AH6LE |
Repeater Controller List Servers
Click here for information on several repeater related email lists.
Land Mobile Suppliers
TESSCO
Hutton
Filters and Duplexers
Celwave, Phelps Dodge, Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) Quality Station and Mobile Duplexers.
Decibel Products dB Products.
Digital Communications Inc. RF Filters for intermod and remote bases, etc.
EMR Corporation EMR Corporation
Microwave Filter Company Filters and components from 5 Hz to 50 GHz
MtronPTI Formed by the merger fo Mitron and Piezo Technology. Makers of crystal filters, Combline/Cavity Filters, and more.
Sinclair Labs / Sinclair Technologies Inc. Sinclair Antenna Products
Telewave, Inc. Telewave appears to be trying to fill the Wacom void.....
TX RX Systems TX RX Systems.
Wacom Products Wacom is no longer in business, they have been acquired by TX RX Systems.
A 6 meter duplexer project! By James Poll of Allen TX.
Crystals, Channel Elements and ICOM's
International Crystal Manufacturing Oklahoma City, OK. 800-725-1426 Probably one of the best of all of the crystal companies.
Bomar New Jersey 800-526-3935 Crystal manufacturer for radios, channel elements, and ICOM's
West Crystals Located in British Columbia, Canada.
Channel Element Headquarters A source for channel elements ready to go on your frequency. Mostly oriented towards commercial channels.
Repeater Receiver Preamplifiers
AngleLinear High Quality Preamps Very high quality preamps, RX splitters, multicouplers, bandpass filters, preselectors,
etc. The owner (N6CA) is a VHF and UHF weak signal enthusiast and a top-notch RF designer and it shows.
Advanced Receiver Research Preamps
Down East Microwave Products for 50MHz through 11ghz... Transverters, block converters, preamps, all kinds of parts and assemblies.
Hamtronics Preamplifiers
GLB
Preselector Preamps
Ramsey Electronics Kits
Radioware (Ramsey) High Performance 2 Meter Kit Look under "Misc. Products", Radio Kits.
Repeater Power Amplifiers
Hamtronics RF Power Amplifiers
Mirage Amplifiers
VoCom Products Amplifiers
Henry Amplifiers Complete line of high power Solid State and Tube power amplifiers.
Radio Direction Finding (RDF) (Doppler)
Dopplers by Greany® Ed Greany KB6DOL
Doppler Systems®
Service Monitors
IFR Systems Manufacturer of high quality Service Monitors.
Economy 2 Way Distributors Sells used Service Monitors.
Antennas, Feedline, Connectors and related products
Amphenol Connectors.
Andrew Corporation The makers of Heliax, Radiax, and some other top quality products.
Antenna Products Corporation Makers of top quality Log Periodics and other specialized antennas.
Antenna Specialists was bought by Andrew Company in July 2003.
Antenex Antenex and Centurion Wireless Technologies - based out of Glendale Heights Illinois. Designer and manufacturer of mobile, portable, and fixed station antennas for a variety of comercial 2-way and amateur radio applications. They have models or mobile antennas that combine land mobile or amateur VHF with GPS. They also have mobile wi-fi antennas.
Antennax This company is an anfermarket supplier of mobile entertainment system antennas. They have no amateur or land mobile antennas. They are listed here only to resolve the confusion between them and antenex (above) and antennex (below).
Antennex (short for "antenna experimenter") This is a monthly web-based antenna experimenters magazine based out of Texas. They are listed here only to resolve the confusion.
Celwave / RFS World Repeater antennas and associated products
Comet Antennas Fragile, but otherwise high quality antennas for monoband and multiband base station use. You don't want to use one as a repeater antenna. Also known as NCG-Comet.
Cushcraft Has been around for years and has a nice selection of beam antennas
Decibel Products DB Products (now part of Allen Telecom) makes high quality duplex antennas
Hustler-Newtronics G Series and Spirit Series high quality antennas for monoband, & multiband applications.
Hy-Gain HF and VHF antennas.
Larsen Antennas Top
quality mobile and base antennas from a USA company. Properly called Radiall/Larsen. Now part of Pulse Corp. Nice on-line catalog.
Kathrein-Scala Company Not too well known in amateur circles but this Oregon-based company (originally Scala - later bought by Kathrein) makes some of the ruggedest antennas out there. They also make
power dividers (look on the Accessories page). And don't let the "UHF Mobile" in the catalog index confuse you, they DO make UHF base station antennas - and NICE ones.
M2 Antenna Systems Inc. Good antennas, especially the beams
Maxrad Quality station, and complete line of mobile antennas.
PolyPhaser Lightning Protection Products
Sinclair Labs / Sinclair Technologies Inc. Sinclair Antenna Products
Telewave, Inc. Quality station and microwave antennas.
SurplusServer A source for surplus Antennas, Hardline,
Connectors, RF Adapters, Coax, Etc.
The RF Connection A good source for Hardline, Connectors, RF Adapters, Coax, Etc.
The Wire Man A good source for feedline and parts of all types. Owned by a ham (N8UG) 800-727-WIRE for orders
RF Stuff Another ham owned business in Arizona that sells RF adapters, connectors and some antennas and accessories for feedline and parts of all types. 303-912-9155 for orders
Repeater Audio Processing Systems
Repeater-Builder AP-50 Audio
processing and brick wall filtering for building a quality audio repeater.
Flat Audio Technology Audio processing products for repeaters.
K2RF Communications Products Audio processing and equalization products for repeaters.
C3i Printed Circuit Board Products Audio processing, equalization, and DTMF products for repeaters.
Repeater Voting Systems
LDG Electronics RVS-8 Read all about this 8-channel voter by downloading this article.
Doug Hall Electronics Voters.
Build a 2 Channel Voter! Online article here at repeater-builder.
Test Equipment
Agilent Technologies The former HP test equipment division
Anritsu Wiltron Communications Service Monitors
Bird Electronic Corporation Wattmeters
Coaxial Dynamics Wattmeters
IFR Systems, Inc. Communications Service Monitors
Marconi Instruments
Optoelectronics Frequency Counters
Tektronix Test equipment including spectrum analyzers
Wavetek Communications Service Monitors
Tone Signaling Equipment
Communications Specialists This is the CSI that's in Orange California, and makes a line of PL, DPL and paging encoder products including the TS-64 and similar tone boards. They also support the Selectone product line.
Connect Systems Inc. This is the CSI that's in Ventura California and makes repeater tone panels, commercial autopatches, and LTR Trunking Controllers.
CES Wireless Technologies
Midian Electronics, Inc.
MX-Com, Inc.
Norcomm
Pipo Communications One of the first manufacturers of add-on DTMF pads
www.selectone.com - Purchased by Com-Spec, who still supports the products
Vega Corp Formerly Cetec-Vega Corp. Makes a wide line of tone systems, control equipment and consoles. Their web site also has a considerable amount of Voice-Over-IP information.
Carrier Squelch Boards
Link Communications RLC-MOT This 1 inch by 2.5 inch carrier squelch module uses the "Micor" squelch chip and can be wired into almost any radio.
SQ-1000 CAT Communications makes the SQ-1000 carrier squelch module.
NHRC-Squelch NHRC makes the NHRC-Squelch carrier squelch module.
Parts and Components Suppliers
RF Parts Company A quality RF parts supplier.
Gigaparts New and used amateur equipment and computers.
BG Micro New and surplus electronic components.
TTI Inc. From their web site... "TTI is the world's leading distributor of passive components, connectors, interconnect systems and electromechanical components".
Jameco New and surplus electronic components. They frequently have older parts that nobody else has. Get their catalog! (top right of the opening screen)
Digi-Key Corporation Has a free catalog and a very good online ordering web server. Get their catalog!
Mouser Electronics Has a free catalog and a very good online ordering web server. This company is a good source of passive components such as chip resistors, inductors, and hard to find tantalum surface mount capacitors. They also offer reasonable quantities of components, i.e. you don't have to purchase a reel of 5,000 resistors to get 20 parts. Get their catalog!
Allied Electronics Yes, this is the same Allied that used the Callbook back in the 1960s and 1970s as a mailing list and sent catalogs to every ham. They supply components for industrial and commercial users, but they have a large selection of parts that are actually in stock and available in reasonable quantities. Although they will be priced a little higher than Digikey or Mouser, they frequently have items that the others don't have. Get their catalog!
All Electronics Corp. Located in Van Nuys (Los Angeles area) this is a very nice surplus outlet. Their web site is worth exploring for good deals on fans, voltmeters, ammeters, power supplies, etc. Phone 888-826-5432
Alltronics Corp. Located in Morgan Hill (San Franciso Bay area) this is a very nice surplus outlet. Their web site is worth exploring for good deals on power supplies, etc. Phone 408-778-3868
DC Power Supplies
Astron Corporation Linear and Switching Supplies. There is a web page here at repeater-builder that has a library of their schematics.
Duracomm, Inc. An alternative to Astron if you want a much better quality supply. They also have multistage automatic chargers for backup battery systems. If you have something like a Micor station that has a power supply with a built-in changeover fuction to a on-site backup battery you should plan on disabling the Micor charger and replacing it with a Duracomm.
Tools and Equipment (hand tools, power tools, soldering tools, etc.)
Solder Tools Vendor for all types of soldering equipment.
Plato Corp. These folks make a wide variety of soldering/desoldering tools, including replacement tips for Ungar, Weller and Pace - and the variety and selection of tips is much wider than the original manufacturers. They sell through distributors, and Mouser is one of them.
PACE Soldering / Desoldering Tools PACE is the "Rolls Royce" of production hand soldering/desoldering systems. If you do any PC board repair and can find a used one at a good price (they are expensive) you will soon find one of these invaluable. They sell through distributors and there is a "Reps and Distributors" menu item on their web site.
Prom Programmer Occasionally you need to be able to read, program, or copy PROMs. Or to copy a PROM to an EEPROM. This unit comes in both parallel port and USB versions and has adapters for oddball chips like 32x8 prom chips, PICs, AVRs, PLCCs, TSOPs, SOICs or even gang programmers. This is the old Intronics "Pocket programmer" updated after Intronics folded.
Craftsman™ The in-house Sears brand with a lifetime warranty on hand (i.e. non-power) tools. Note that Sears also sells "Companion" and other brands tools that do not have that warranty.
Harbor Freight A source of imported (moderate quality) tools. Good for "disposable" tools like hacksaw blades, Dremel saws, "simple" tools like a bench vise, linemans pliers, or rarely used tools (like an adjustable wrench with 4 inch wide jaws), etc. They have a store locator on their web site with locations in all 50 states.
Xcelite™ tools by Cooper Hand Tools The "Type 99" kit is very handy in your traveling toolbox. My field toolbox has three Type 99 handles and a collection of blades and extensions in a canvas roll-up...
Stanley Tools / Jensen Tools Jensen Tools was bought by Stanley. Jensen is a suplier of field service tool kits and frequently is the only source of some interesting devices. They have a print catalog that they send out on request - worth getting.
Specialized Products Company Another suplier of field service tool kits and field installer tool kits. They have fiber optic cable and telecom tools. They have a print catalog that they send out on request - worth getting.
Techni-Tool Another specialty tool supplier, also with a print catalog that they send out on request - worth getting.
Grainger Corp. Industrial supplier, some stores will only sell to businesses. They have a store locator on their web site. This is the only place I've found differential thermostats or humidistats. They have a print catalog that they send out on request (but with the cost of postage it takes some convincing) - worth getting.
McMaster-Carr Corp. Another industrial supplier, this one with a better web site, and they ship from stocking warehouses. They have a free catalog that's several inches thick that they send out on request (but with the cost of postage it takes some convincing) - worth getting. They have will call counters in only a few places including Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Princeton (New Jersey)
All Electronics Corp. Located in Van Nuys (Los Angeles area) this is a very nice surplus outlet. Their web site is worth exploring for good deals on fans, voltmeters, ammeters, power supplies, etc. Phone 888-826-5432
Alltronics Corp. Located in Morgan Hill (San Franciso Bay area) this is a very nice surplus outlet. Their web site is worth exploring for good deals on power supplies, etc. Phone 408-778-3868
High Quality Wattmeters
Bird Electronics Makes the standard wattmeter of the communications industry - the Bird Model 43.
Radiodan is a supplier of Bird meters and accessories.
RF Applications specializes in RF Power Measurement Systems.
Coaxial Dynamics A Bird clone
ChuckMartin.com / Martin RF Supply Domestic & International RF Products, New and Used RF Wattmeters, RF Dummy Loads, Wattmeter Elements (slugs)
Amateur Radios
Amateur Electronics Supply Over 50 years serving the radio amateur, with stores in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (home office), Cleveland, Ohio, Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Go to their web site for the email address and toll-free number for each store.
Ham Radio Outlet Twelve stores in Anaheim, Burbank, Oakland (near San Francisco), San Diego, and Sunnyvale, California Atlanta Georgia, Denver, Colorado, Newcastle, Deleware, Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon Salem, New Hampshire and Woodbridge, Virgina. Go to their web site for the email address and toll-free number for each store.
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