Snow at the Santiago Repeater Site
Posted on February 21st, 2011 by w6gos / Add Comment »
The recent storm blanketed the local mountains with snow including the WD6AWP repeater site at Santiago Peak.
EchoIRLP Slides Posted
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
The slides from my general membership meeting (8/9/10) presentation on Echolink and IRLP on the Santiago repeater is available. You already have these if you got a handout at the meeting.
Click here for the Slides. This is a pdf.
73,
Tim
Repeater Planned Outage Tuesday
Posted on February 12th, 2009 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
We’ll be doing some work on the new two meter repeater next Tuesday, February 17. It will be off the air for the better part of the day. The duplexer will be removed in the morning and taken to the shop for tuning. Barring unforeseen circumstances it will be reinstalled Tuesday afternoon.
The UHF repeaters and the Santiago two meter repeater should be available during the outage. Thanks for your understanding.
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73,
Tim, WD6AWP
Repeater Install
Posted on January 11th, 2009 by wd6awp / 1 Comment »
You may have heard all the racket on the repeater this weekend. If so you know we installed the new VXR-7000 at city hall. In the process of the install we discovered some problems that required attention. We fixed most of the problem but there is still some desense in the system as indicated by the long squelch tail. The desense was no doubt present with the other repeater but not detectable do to the lower output power. We’re planing to give the duplexer a through tune-up in the not too distant future. Even with the current desense, the new system seems to be performing as well or better than the other repeater.
Thanks to AD6TN, W6BRP, K6LUE, WB6DNX, N6RAS, W6GOS, N6AWQ, and KE6JDL for your help with the install.
Here’s a few pictures from the install.
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- VRX-7000 on it’s perch.
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- Rear of VRX-7000
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- VXR-7000 and Micor
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- Antenna farm atop city hall.
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- Buck and Peter
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- Tim and Pete working on the 2 meter repeater antenna
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- Tim, WD6AWP, our HB RACES Repeater Liaison
First Look at New Repeater
Posted on January 9th, 2009 by wd6awp / 2 Comments »
The City bought us a new repeater to replace our ailing two meter machine. Be sure to tell Brevyn thank you for all the things he’s done for us in 2008 including getting the new repeater, two new mobile radios and the new web site.
The repeater is a Vertex/Yaesu VXR-7000 50 watt VHF repeater/base. Here are a couple of pictures of the repeater on my work bench. That’s Peter Shores, AD6TN laptop. We tried four laptops, including one of Buck’s, W6BRP before we found one that would run the programming software. The aluminum mounting brackets were made by Fred, K6LUE.
If all goes well it should be on the air in a few days.
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- Vertex VXR-7000
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- Bracket by K6LUE
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- Programming Setup
Click on the above thumbnail to see a larger photo.
