[FADCA] Exciting News!

[Doug Christ]

Hi Gang,

I am proud to announce that I now have a brand new VHF DB224 mounted at approximately 200' at the Brownsville site here in DeSoto County. The antenna was set up for an omni pattern and It is fed by 1 5/8" hard-line and has a lightening arrestor installed. I am thinking about putting a user port for the FPAC switch on it but I am open to any ideas for a better use it there is one.

This site, for those who are unaware, is owned by DeSoto County and houses the following equipment. 1 VHF commercial system, 1 UHF (MED 8) commercial system. Single channel 806 MHZ repeater. The W4MIN 147.075 repeater. The KN4YT FPAC system located there is on 441.025 and 446.050 and is used for forwarding only. The site is secure and is on emergency power.  Heck, it even survived Hurricane Charley.

By activating the user port on VHF, it would be a great gateway onto the local lan. I have my WINLINK port located at my office which is about four miles away. I was thinking that it would give me great VHF coverage for the county instead of the existing antenna I am using at 100'. The SWR climbs to about 1.8 at 145 Mhz but I believe that it will be usable.

Doug/KN4YT