[FADCA] Power Output in Brownsville

[John H. Green]

Hi Doug
    We are already moving in the direction of another freq. between Oke 
and Lake Placid. I've asked Russ to check some freq's and yes, we'll 
need a radio and tnc. If none are available we can probably come up with 
them. Since we may need to order some crystals we just need to know what 
we are dealing with. As for the antenna I suggest we run another coax 
and eliminate the y connection leaving each beam connected to their 
respective radio/tnc. The freq. I suggested is 445.025, maybe anyone in 
the area could listen to see if it is clear. We would leave the Lake 
Placid to Brownsville trunk on 441.025.
    We are also looking at moving the Lake Harbor to La Belle trunk to 
445.150 in order to start removing some of the transmitters from 441.00. 
This will most likely happen when we put a fpac switch in La Belle.

    Thanks for checking the Brownsville stuff..

    On another note Oke locked up again. Doug and I went up to check it 
out and found the same error code on the pc. We ran scandisk on the hard 
drive and it checked ok. We then reloaded all the fpac files , ran some 
tests and left it running, hopefully it will continue to run. If not, we 
will probably change out the pc.
73  John

Doug Christ wrote:

>I just checked the power output of the Motorola MOXY located at the
>Brownsville FPAC site. It is a solid 11 watts with a 1:1 SWR.
>
>The audio signal from KK4LI sounds clean and crisp. It appears that KK4LI
>might be slightly deaf or stops responding. I watched as a forwarding cycle
>was passing thru the local switch and KK4LI simply does not respond at
>times.
>
>I'm not sure when I can make a service trip over to the site to investigate.
>Wyatt (remember K4VJI?) made a "Y" harness which splits the signal between
>two beam antennas. One is pointed East and the other West. I never did like
>that configuration and I wonder if we would be better off by installing a
>omni. Better yet, a second tnc and radio and split the frequencies at the
>site.
>
>Doug/KN4YT
>
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