[FADCA] Power Output in Brownsville

Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:39:47 -0500

Hi, I have not finished my search. I have made a file for the UHF links.
Sorry for the delay.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John H. Green" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Power Output in Brownsville

> 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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