| 53.75 PL 167.9 Dave, N3NXC and myself, N3FE, went up to Tower Hill on May 7, 2009 and retuned his 6 meter receiver. The receiver is now opening up at .08 and seems to be doing quite well. Give it a try and let Dave know how it is working. 53.75/52.75 PL 167.9. |
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. I was up at the site and removed the PL encoder on 5/11/2009 thinking that the user input PL would generate enough for the link receivers to pick it up. They do but the Link doesn't. I will look into this. |
| 146.910 PL 127.3 THis machine seems to be doing very well. The pager doesn't seem to bother us much at all. It does have it times though. I believe it is the link freq they use that goes to Delano. I am not 100% sure on this but it is the pager that is causing the problems. |
Inventory I am fresh out of repeater controllers at the moment. I do have a few spare pieces of GE Mastr II equipment in case something fails, but not much. The equipment is getting much harder to find at reasonable prices. If you have anything let me know. |
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More NewsI have decided to only work on my own equipment at this time. I am having fun with the 146.910, 442.850, 448.125 and the 444.600 repeaters. I have received emails from people asking me to either service their repeaters or make changes. I don't want to be held responsible for other peoples equipment. Something happened where someone dropped off something at my house and it disapeared from my back porch. I don't ever remember seeing it. |
147.060 I am no longer involved with this repeater but from what I have heard they installed a VHF station master on the Morris fire Tower for a remote receiver that will be pointed back to Wellsboro. It sounds like they are trying to get this done before the STPR Waste Management Road Rally the first full weekend of June.
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5/7/2009
N3FE-1 is back on the air at Tower Hill. Tower hill is located in North-Western Tioga County. As a test it is running 5 watts and a ringo at 50 feet. We may need to make some changes and add some down tilt. It appears to be hearing the distant nodes and not the mobile stations in the area. With our terrain we find this quite a bit. As we all know a Ringo has no down tilt at all. I plan on putting a Jetliner JTB3 at the site and use the VHF portion of the antenna for APRS and the UHF side on 442.850 (PL 127.3). This will give me some coverage into Bradford County when I head over to the in-law