Testing the new 025 machine

[Luis V. Romero]

All:

If you are in the Town 'n Country area in West Tampa (within 10 miles at
most of my house near Jackson Springs and Hanley Road over the weekend,
please see if you can hit the new Bridgecom repeater that I am testing
on my standby antenna 20 feet up (so coverage wont be very good).  I
would like to see if I could at least make a QSO with someone other than
myself before I put the machine in its final location.  Here are the
particulars:

N4TP/R

443.025 (yes, the same as the existing RayJay machine) where your radio
receives on

448.025 where your radio transmits on.  The split is  5 mHz up as is
normal here

the CTCSS/PL tone is (VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL FOLLOWS):

        >>100.0 on both transmit and receive<<

Note that the PL tone is not the standard 146.2 that we use, but 100.0,
just like the BigStick (NI4CE) repeaters.  This is TEMPORARY as I test
the machine.

So you will need a new channel programmed exactly as you currently have
the existing RayJay 025 repeater BUT WITH A DIFFERENT PL -- 100.0
instead of 146.2 on BOTH transmit AND receive.

Because you are using the 100.0 PL tone, the existing 025 at RayJay will
not respond to your transmission.  Conversely, if you use the existing
RayJay 025 machine with its 146.2 PL, the test machine at my home will
not respond to your transmission.

This is how commercial land mobile stations in big cities like Chicago,
where there arent enough frequencies for everyone to use, share the same
frequency.

This machine will move to Ruskin on or after Wednesday May 13 after
noon.  I will keep the PL at 100.0 as we test the new site - the
existing RayJay 025 will continue to be available however you can only
use it if you program one channel of your radio with 443.025 + and PL
146.2 and another channel with the same frequencies but programmed with
a PL of 100.0 on BOTH transmit and receive.

Eventually, the RayJay repeater will QSY to VHF as a backup to 105.

73

Lu Romero W4LT

TARC Repeater Systems Trustee.