Huntington Beach RACES

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

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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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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. 

Click on the above thumbnail to see a larger photo.

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