Repeater Builder Contact Information

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Maintained by Mike Morris WA6ILQ

The information on this web site, the index pages, and most of the articles, are written, compiled, and maintained by a number of dedicated people who have volunteered their time, knowledge and expertise. If you have comments and / or questions related to the subject or content of an individual article (or page), please try to contact the author of that article (or page) first; if that fails try one of the people below.

Suggestions for new articles and material you wish to donate can be directed to a responsible person at one of the e-mail addresses below. Don't be shy. Share your knowledge, experience, and expertise with others.

All of the people below can help get an article published on Repeater-Builder. Every index page also lists a maintainer, who is the primary person to add or update the information on that page. This doesn't necessarily mean that person knows anything about that make / model, but he can probably point you at someone who does.

Many authors and all of the people listed below will reply to your e-mail in a timely fashion, either to respond to your question or ask for further clarification or information. However, as frustrating as it is for you to NOT get a reply, it's even more frustrating for one of us when we take the time to research your question and compose a reply only to have it get bounced back in our face by your e-mail service because of some anti-spam requirement to whitelist / pre-register our e-mail addresses. Please realize that you might be sending the email to an address at repeater-builder but a response could come from yahoo, gmail, sbcglobal, or some other address.
If you write to one of us, please make sure your e-mail service will accept a reply!

If you have general repeater or equipment-related questions about topics or issues not mentioned on this web site, there are other, more responsive venues available, such as Google or groups.io - even YouTube. You'd be surprised as to the number of radio mailing lists at groups.io. Also, do a little bit of web searching on your own before you ask an author for help. Many questions can be answered a lot quicker if you do some research first, and often the information you need is in another file or article already on this site or other sites. There might even be a YouTube video.

Any requests for radio programming software (i.e. GE software, Johnson software, Kenwood KPG software, Motorola Radio Service Software, RSS, Customer Programming Software, CPS, etc.), or where to download any radio or repeater programming software will be ignored!

We welcome article and file submissions, however please send files or notifications ONLY to the person listed at the top of the relevant page as the Page Maintainer.
DO NOT send the same message to every email address you can find, as it just causes confusion. It's like pressing an elevator "call" button; once you've pressed it, multiple presses won't make the elevator arrive any quicker.

People persist in sending spam e-mails to us. When these are identified, the sender's e-mail address is added to filters that simply delete all future e-mail received from that entity. The list is never cleared, so once you've been added to it, we'll never be bothered by you again, even for legitimate reasons.

The e-mail addresses below have purposely been disguised to make it hard for spammers and web crawlers to make sense out of them. You must manually correct the address as you type it into the "To: " line of your e-mail program. Make sure you include something descriptive in the "Subject:" of your message; many email systems will ignore or not forward emails that have a blank "Subject:" line. And an email that the system does not forward will never be answered.

Kevin Custer W3KKC: kuggie // at // kuggie // dot // com

Just because he owns the site, don't assume that he has created or maintains each and every page on the site, or has knowledge of every radio or product referenced in this site. This includes knobs for Bendix-King radios or replacement PTT buttons for Bendix-King handhelds.

If you have questions about a particular page, there is usually a reference to who created and or maintains it. Please contact the person listed at the top of that page to insure an accurate and timely response.

Areas of Kevin's expertise: Motorola MICOR stations and mobiles; GE MASTR II stations and mobiles; conversions of MICOR and MASTR II radios to the ham bands including 220 MHz; Hamtronics crystal and some newer synthesized equipment; ACC RC-96 and RC-85 repeater controllers.
Kevin also owns Masters Communications.
Donations toward the upkeep of this site are always welcomed.

Scott Zimmerman N3XCC: his-callsign // at // repeater-builder // dot // com

Areas of expertise: Expert at nothing, but fairly proficient in most areas of two-way radio and general electronics knowledge.

Questions that involve Repeater-Builder products or Masters Communications products should be sent to Scott N3XCC (Repeater-Builder) or Kevin W3KKC (Masters Communications).

Robert Meister WA1MIK: (email address removed)

Bob passed away in June 2021, but his legacy remains here - hopefully forever.

Just because he maintaines most of the pages on this site, don't assume that he has any knowledge of the equipment mentioned on those pages. This means he knows nothing about Quantars or Quantros.

Areas of expertise: Motorola 1980s and 1990s synthesized radio products such as: MSF/PURC, Nucleus, GTX, Spectra, MaxTrac, Radius, SM50 / SM120, MaraTrac; MICOR and Spectra TAC receivers; CAT200B repeater controllers. He also maintains a lot of pages on this web site, but that doesn't mean he has any other knowledge about the equipment covered on those pages.

Michael Morris WA6ILQ: his-callsign // at // gmail // dot // com
(it used to be at repeater-builder but that points to an Outlook account that is being difficult)

Mike wrote a large number of pages on this web site using information provided by others, and he maintains many more. He also does a lot of HTML coding of articles donated by others.
Comments / critiques / suggestions / updates / corrections on any page at this web site are welcome.
Donations of new or updated articles are gratefully accepted.

He asked that we include this:
He's a hands-on tech / engineer, not an English or grammar major.
Please forgive his occasional mis-spelling, mis-usage or lack of perfect punctuation.
He welcomes corrections via email.
If you are willing to help as a proofreader / editor, just let him know.
Areas of expertise: He does not claim to be an expert at anything. He has some knowledge in a lot of areas, and a lot of hands-on experience with Motorola equipment from 1950s to about 2010, some commercial Icom (a friend of his owns an Icom dealership), a little commercial Kenwood (another friend works at a Kenwood dealership). He's also rebuilt Toughbooks as radio programming laptops.

He helps maintain several amateur radio systems plus 48 analog LTR trunked UHF repeaters and 45 digital NXDN / IDAS trunked repeaters at a number of different SoCal mountaintop sites. Most of the sites are 4x4 access only... changing a fuse might take two people 9 hours away from the shop... two and a half to three hours on the freeway, an hour and a half on a Forest Service road, and that just gets you to the building... (why 2 people? You never go to a mountaintop site alone).

He's been around the southern California FM scene for over 50 years and hence knows some really knowledgeable people who are willing to answer questions.

Articles written by others: see the bottom of the specific article page.

Most of the articles written by other authors have contact information in them.
Note that amateur radio operators typically put a slash through their zeros to distinguish them from the letter "O"s; so if the callsign in the article contains a Ø you will have to replace it with the digit zero when you address an email. If all else fails, navigate to the index page for the article and contact the page maintainer, as usually that person usually knows how to contact inaccessible authors. However, even if you are successful at sending an email to the author, we can't guarantee that the author will reply.
Several authors have passed and we add an "(SK)" as we update the pages. Why SK? That's ham-speak for "silent key", a term of respect for a deceased amateur radio operator. The "key" in the term refers to a telegraph key, the instrument that all early amateur radio operators, as well as many contemporary amateur radio operators, have used to send Morse code.

This page created on 04-Jan-2010 out of necessity.

This web page, this web site, the information presented in and on its pages and in these modifications and conversions is Copyrighted © 1995 and (date of last update) by Kevin Custer W3KKC and multiple originating authors. All Rights Reserved, including that of paper and web publication elsewhere.

The information on this web site, the index pages, and most of the articles, are written, compiled, and maintained by a number of dedicated people who have volunteered their time, knowledge and expertise. If you have comments and / or questions related to the subject or content of an individual article (or page), please try to contact the author of that article (or page) first; if that fails try one of the people below. Suggestions for new articles and material you wish to donate can be directed to a responsible person at one of the e-mail addresses below. Don't be shy. Share your knowledge, experience, and expertise with others. All of the people below can help get an article published on Repeater-Builder. Every index page also lists a maintainer, who is the primary person to add or update the information on that page. This doesn't necessarily mean that person knows anything about that make / model, but he can probably point you at someone who does.
		Many authors and all of the people listed below will reply to your e-mail in a timely fashion, either to respond to your question or ask for further clarification or information. However, as frustrating as it is for you to NOT get a reply, it's even more frustrating for one of us when we take the time to research your question and compose a reply only to have it get bounced back in our face by your e-mail service because of some anti-spam requirement to whitelist / pre-register our e-mail addresses. Please realize that you might be sending the email to an address at repeater-builder but a response could come from yahoo, gmail, sbcglobal, or some other address. If you write to one of us, please make sure your e-mail service will accept a reply!
If you have general repeater or equipment-related questions about topics or issues not mentioned on this web site, there are other, more responsive venues available, such as Google or groups.io - even YouTube. You'd be surprised as to the number of radio mailing lists at groups.io. Also, do a little bit of web searching on your own before you ask an author for help. Many questions can be answered a lot quicker if you do some research first, and often the information you need is in another file or article already on this site or other sites. There might even be a YouTube video.