[FADCA] Exciting News!

[Chuck Hast]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:56:11 -0500, Doug Christ <kn4yt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sounds like a great site. Perhaps that will get some users going in
your area there.
We need to get the link between us cleaned up so we can link to there. Presently
we can not keep the SRQ link up for any more than just a few minutes
then it goes
down. Says network congestion, I do not think you have that much going on there 
even on that 446 Mhz channel.


> 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.
> 

Be interesting to see what a yagi aimed at Tampa would do for a direct
link. If it can
run 24x7 it would be a great path, and that would give us a fast path
your direction.

> 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.
> 

Put a alias on the fpac switch and set up a UHF link to your office
for the WinLink
port then the connetion going to the winlink just gets sent down the
UHF link and
there is not so much contention on the 2m side for access.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."