Repeater out for repair!
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This is an update as to the status of the St Lucie Repeater Association
Repeater.
Earlier this evening, Kevin and I met at the repeater site to remove
the new Motorola
Repeater and duplexers so that Kevin (W4KKW) could drop the equipment
off at Dave's Communications for repair. So for the time being the
146.775 will be temporarily off the air. Earlier today I dropped off
the GE repeater for Dana so that he can rewire the cabling
For the CAT 1000 controller. As soon as one of the repeaters is ready
it will be installed.
I would plan on having both of the Sunday evening nets (SLRA & TCWN) to
be held on the 147.345 repeater until further notice.
I have moved the AF4CN EchoLink setup over to the 147.345 for the
time being. I will
Put the NASA feed over the system for the shuttle launch on Thursday
evening and I will
Also Put the VOIP WX Talk Skywarn and Hurricane Training Net over the
system on
Saturday evening at 1900 hrs.
If anyone has any questions or comments about the current situation
with the St Lucie Repeater Association repeater please respond via the
SLRA Google forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/SLRA
If you are not currently a member of the SLRA forum and have a problem
posting
A message to the forum please let me know.
73 de
Wayne
KA1VRF
SLRA Secretary
wburk...@gmail.com
Kevin and I put the Motorola repeater back in service at the SLRA
repeater site on 146.775 late this afternoon. Stan at Dave’s
Communication gave us the same day turn around on the repairs to the
repeater. The duplexers tested out fine, but there where many issues
with the repeater that Stan fixed for us. Special thanks go to Stan and
Dave’s Communications for their generous offer, donating time to
service our repeater for us. Basically the repeater was off frequency a
bit on both the transmit and receive side and the deviation was way out
of whack plus a couple of other issues that Stan repaired for us.
Now the bad news. The system is still not performing well and may be an
issue for the nets but we can take this on a day to day basis. A tower
climb is needed to repair the
Jumper problems at the antennas. Anybody feel like climbing? Only
450’ feet straight up! Seriously we need to get the antennas fixed
and hopefully this will solve the interference issues. More on this
will follow.
We will try the NASA link over the 146.775 Thursday night or when ever
the launch is,
The VOIPWX Talk training net on Saturday night and the 2 nets on Sunday
night. If
The system does not cooperate we will move activities over to the
147.345 Ft Pierce ARC repeater if it is not in use for other purposes.
Thank you the Ft Pierce Club in advance for the use of their repeater.
If anyone has any questions or ideas, please let us know.
73 de
Wayne Burkett Sr.
KA1VRF
SLRA Secretary