| C4FM Test Mode Notification |
CURRENT
Eagle River Ministry 145.150 operational, reduced receiver sensitivity as of June 29 2018. C4FM remains active, please advise on analog or email of results/comments. Echolink gains now good, were adjusted Aug 8 at meeting. Much better now.
Land o' Lakes 145.390 October 14th update, operational. 1300 hours Tony KC9SZW and myself arrived on site, installed and tested the repaired repeater, set TX out at 95-100 watts into the duplexer showing SWR un-detectable, ie virtually 1:1. Very nice tuning, Jeffrey! Already had antenna tested Oct 1 & 4 showing 1.2:1. The signal checks were excellent with KC9FKH in Conover able to hit it well with down to 1/2w from HT in his E-Z chair, Dave N9DBS on his Eagle River base able to hit full quieting on 5 watts, and Fred KD9CCE in the marshlands East of 3 Lakes hitting with 5 watts with minor scratching around the edges.
Testing from my QTH, got great signal report from AA8YF in Hewitt[?] UP, and can hit it without dropouts from my West back window with both my Moto GP300 and BF-UV5R. Awesome. I will resume almost 24/7 listening for tests and reports.
Wayne Frank from the Motorola dealer also donated to the club the parts VHF MSF5000 he used to fix ours, AND THE MANUAL. Tony has the spare repeater and I have the VFO module and manual. I'm sure Jeffrey and I can fix that, and club will have identical twin spare. Tony has the RSS and software/PC able to program the repeaters.
Roger KD9EPX, Net Manager, VCARC, Inc
Eagle River Ministry 145.150 operational, reduced receiver sensitivity as of June 29 2018. C4FM remains active, please advise on analog or email of results/comments. Echolink gains now good, were adjusted Aug 8 at meeting. Much better now.
Land o' Lakes 145.390 October 14th update, operational. 1300 hours Tony KC9SZW and myself arrived on site, installed and tested the repaired repeater, set TX out at 95-100 watts into the duplexer showing SWR un-detectable, ie virtually 1:1. Very nice tuning, Jeffrey! Already had antenna tested Oct 1 & 4 showing 1.2:1. The signal checks were excellent with KC9FKH in Conover able to hit it well with down to 1/2w from HT in his E-Z chair, Dave N9DBS on his Eagle River base able to hit full quieting on 5 watts, and Fred KD9CCE in the marshlands East of 3 Lakes hitting with 5 watts with minor scratching around the edges.
Testing from my QTH, got great signal report from AA8YF in Hewitt[?] UP, and can hit it without dropouts from my West back window with both my Moto GP300 and BF-UV5R. Awesome. I will resume almost 24/7 listening for tests and reports.
Wayne Frank from the Motorola dealer also donated to the club the parts VHF MSF5000 he used to fix ours, AND THE MANUAL. Tony has the spare repeater and I have the VFO module and manual. I'm sure Jeffrey and I can fix that, and club will have identical twin spare. Tony has the RSS and software/PC able to program the repeaters.
Roger KD9EPX, Net Manager, VCARC, Inc
