[IRCA] Synchros vs. co-channel repeaters

[Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx>]

At 07:05 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
> I have my doubts as to
> the synchronicity of the KKOB Santa Fe synchro.
> Here in Los Alamos, I can hear both transitters, and there is always a
> SAH of about 1 Hz when the "synchro" is on.
>
> Also, is KKOB-AM1 really the call sign, or just what the CE calls it?
> The FCC database lumps it in with the main station under the same 
> facility ID, and gives the callsign as just KKOB...
> -- 
> Mike Westfall, N6KUY, WDX6O
> Los Alamos, New Mexico (DM65uv)

Mike,

So really KKOB-2 is just an co-channel repeater, if
"synchronized" wants replication of the frequency. OK with
me.

Seems to me that KKOB would synch the frequencies.

The Japanese repeaters may be synched for frequency on-channel w/each
other. I noted nary a carrier beat between synchros while over there.

On the other hand, the PRCs aren't "synchros" because e.g. I
could hear a very slow carrier beat between the 3 principal transmitters
on 720. As for 1376 (I think that's the frequency), it was more like a
mob than a synchro channel. Many transmitters  with offsets up to 1
kHz, as I heard them. True, they were tightening up.

Prior to PRC joining the UN and the ITU back in 1973, I noted them
working on tightening up their carrier frequencies. 

73 de Charlie WD9INP/4



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