What type of equipment is the system using?

The WIN System is using state-of-the-art, completely solid state equipment.  Most of the repeaters are commercial GE units.   Our average repeater power output is 50 watts out of the cabinet.  Most of our repeaters use two antennas (not duplexers), one antenna for receive at the top of the tower, and another for transmit mounted  lower on the tower.

  
Most of our repeaters use dual-stage ferrite isolators and pass cavities on the repeater output, so we can be good neighbors to other users on our mountain-top communications  sites.  Most of our Sites have stand-by power.

Shorty built the WIN System with portable radio’s in mind.  Getting a repeater to talk is not a difficult thing to do on a high level mountain-top location.  Getting a repeater to HEAR is the trick. 

That is why the WIN System has spent the extra money to run two antennas and feed lines at every some Sites  

It gives the repeater the maximum possible ability to hear.  It is the way virtually all commercial and cellular repeater Sites operate.  You will find that you can “get into” the WIN System!  It hears!