[FADCA] W4MIN back on the air!

[Bill Sinbine]

At 07:42 PM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
>I was at the Okechobee switch site today since I maintain a couple of paging
>transmitters there. Power has been restored to the area and that is the good
>news...bad news is that the tower is a mess, there are several antennas that
>are about ready to fall off and several pieces of feedline swinging in
>mid-air. The front door has fallen off and is just proped back up against
>the opening left, huge gaps for rain and critters to get in.
>
>The good news is that the switch is NOT the first thing in the door, that is
>the bad news for the Okeechobee Repeaters that are protecting the packet
>equipment...Spoke to N4XEO as I was leaving the site and apparently the
>switch antenna is a tri-band antenna, and after doing a survey of the tower
>I did not see any ham looking antennas that were damaged, as long as it is
>not a feedline problem it may just be the switch that locked up and needs a
>re-boot. Since a note on the PC states the last person caught messing with
>the PC was shot I did not re-boot, I shot enough snakes in the morning at
>Palm City tower, was not looking for the OK corral in the afternoon.
>
>Rich
>K4GPS

I will try to get by okee this weekend and get it back on line. Rich said 
he heard data noise so that tells me that it is hearing my 220 port here so 
the computer prob just needs to be re booted!! Let's hope that is all it is...

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Bill Sinbine
n4xeo at bellsouth.net