| APRS Dave and Corey have had some discussions on where we need to place the APRS wides to get coverage in the county. It is planned that Dave, N3NXC, will put up a node at the Tower Hill site where his 53.75 repeater sits. In the spring I will put up N3FE-1 on the Bloss Tower. These two sites should give us some awesome coverage. N3FE (No ssid) is running at the house as an IGATE (Will route local traffic to the internet and vise versa). N3FE-1 is temporarily at Dutch Hill in Wellsboro until the weather breaks. At that time it will be put up on Bloss Mtn... |
444.600 PL 127.3 The 444.600 on Dutch Hill will taken taken down sometime in the near future for a PA replacement. The current PA is only putting out 4-5 watts. I have a 75 watt PA to put back in it with a seconds preamp as well. It is time to get this thing talking like it should! The link into the N2HLT system is normally on fulltime over the weekends. When this machine is linked into the N2HLT system, the vhf machines will be in stand alone mode. |
| 145.270 - Grand Canyon Repeater Group The 145.270 repeater (portable machine) is up at Phil and Elaine's house on the Gas Company Road. Their callsigns are KA3VRW and KB3VRW. It seems to have some pretty good coverage as well! I was quite impressed with it! |
Inventory While going through all the equipment I am going to need to get things going again I found I am short at least two repeater controllers. I thought I had at least one spare, but I don't. I found an old NHRC-2 at the Winkler house, but it was beyond scortched. 75% of the traces were burnt off of it. The downtown remote receiver is also in need of one. Without it there is no downtown receiver. |
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More NewsThe 146.910 and the 444.600 (pl 127.3) seem to be up and running fine. At some point in the near future I need to put the transmitter back on frequency. It is off almost 2 Khz in Freq. The 147.060 is running and does have a preamp on the main receiver, but with a 1.5 KW NOAA transmitter on the same tower, we can't expect miracles. The Whitnyville receiver is somewhat working. The main antenna and feedline are shot so we are just using a little antenna that was used for a scanner right now. This has really limited the coverage. The downtown receiver is almost done. I just have to go through the antennas at Dutch Hill to see what is what. |
147.060 - Grand Canyon Repeater Group The 147.060 is still having issues. The VHF receiver antenna (Whitnyville) and/or coax is bad. This will need to be replaced. Right now it is sitting on an old CB antenna for receive and doesn't hear to awful much. We just needed to verify it was the feedline/antenna without pulling out the test equipment. Not sure when we will get to this... Any one want to Volunteer to help with this stuff? I wouldn't mind having someone who wants to learn this stuff so I don't get all burnt out.
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The 146.910 and the 444.600 Repeaters are Part of the N3FE Repeater System (W.A.R.S). The GCRG repeaters are the 145.270 and the 147.060. These are seperate groups.