[FADCA] W4MIN back on the air!

[kb1fua_1]

I don't blame you.
Although, concidering the scource...it may have been a welcomed re-boot!!
73's-and goodluck!!
W. Dean Stoner
KB1FUA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Garcia" <k4gps at arrl.net>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: [FADCA] W4MIN back on the air!


> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Doug Christ
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:07 AM
> To: Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association
> Subject: [FADCA] W4MIN back on the air!
>
>
> I was successful on Monday on re-installing coaxes and antennas at my EOC.
> The W4MIN and the KN4YT switches are fully functional again. When I try
and
> connect across the state to N4XEO, I can not get any further than KK4LI.
Is
> K4OKE off the air?
>
> My next project is getting PACLINK working again.
>
> Doug/KN4YT
>
>
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