[FADCA] we got the eye; Trying to Make Improvements to System to support EMCOMMS during hurricane season.

[Russell Oder]

My 145.11 and 444.700 repeaters are back on the air. Florida Power restored
power to the rural area where the repeaters are. My 53.21 however, did not
come back up. Not sure why as they are all three served by the same power
source, same feed line and same antenna. I will have to go to the site and
investigate. Did not get it done this afternoon.

My  feed line needs to be tied down as it was "flapping" in the wind up the
tower leg last night in the storm - I went to the site to restore power (I
had experienced the the circuit breaker would throw if causing an outage
when there was sudden disruption in service.)

 I think that reletively "unsecured" 7/8" hard line had added to the noise
experienced on the VHF repeater during the height of the storm before the
power went out (the cable was not, evidently, secured sufficiently for 60 +
MPH gusts.)  I have not been able to have a qso with anyone on either of the
working repeaters to see if the noise has subsided since the wind and rain
has decreased (most of the time.)

However, this pointed out a problem I had noticed occassionally when I had
experienced afternoon storms - "static" type noise on repeated audio when
the ID and carrier after the audio was "clean."

What are the suggestions to "clean" up the audio on repeated signals. While
this is a "voice repeater" experience, I suspect the same thing will happen
to the "audio" "tones" of packet transmissions and disrupt links. I have
noticed decreased throughput on the link between Orange Park and Ormond
Beach on the UHF link between these two sites when there are storms in the
area, on either end.  I have not been able to record data or and correlate
it to the possition of the storm on the path.  It would be good to correlate
the radar information with the signal strength and the throughput when these
conditions occur.

Any one with thoughts on this issue as we have similar links all over the
state.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <oderr at bellsouth.net>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [FADCA] we got the eye


> I am restored here in Orange Park. I suffered no physical damage. My
Telpac Node can not find either of the PMBOs it is set for. Will have to
change that this morning to see if I can restore it. It is working locally
but could not find PMBOs.
>
> We have commercial power here in my section of Orange Park. Was restored
overnight!
>
> We continue to have evacuees in shelters (4 operational when I left a
midnight.) Returning to provide relief to other HAMS.
>
> Good luck Doug and everyone else. I heard from Bud and he is on generator
power and HF only at the time he sent the note.
>
> Russ
> >
> > From: "Doug Ferrell, KD4MOJ" <kd4moj at kd4moj.org>
> > Date: 2004/09/06 Mon AM 09:17:49 EDT
> > To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: RE: [FADCA] we got the eye
> >
> >   WE are preparing for the second Frances landfall. Went to Alligator
Point
> > yesterday to secure the beach house. Had two trees fall in my yard up
here
> > in Tallahassee last night from some gust... and those weren't even that
much
> > of a gust. So I'm preparing for the REAL winds here shortly.
> >
> >
> > ...DOUG
> > KD4MOJ
> >
> >
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