[K3CAL] Hospital Installation

[James Tetlow]

I know everyone is excited about the hospital location. But let’s stop and plan an attack before spending any serious funds. We would need a mount for the repeater antenna, but this is a test! Do the bare minimum to see if the actual repeater works at this location, before buying hardline, a 440 yagi, etc. 
if it in-fact works reasonably well, we could do a permanent install. We could even try the split receive transmit locations that we spoke of.
Let’s test with whatever we can come up with by the “ member lend” materials and equipment method, using LMR 400 or RG 8 would work for testing results. 
This is a great opportunity to use the hospital, while we have time let’s test out all our thoughts, find one that works best, then implement the correct materials (new purchases) to make this happen. If it does not work as we have planned, we are only out of time spent, but money saved to use on something that will work. 
Time and time again we jump too quickly only to find it was not what we wanted or needed to improve.

Sent from my iPad,
Best Regards, 
Jim Tetlow

> On Nov 16, 2019, at 1:28 PM, David Weaver <W3PQS at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 
> All
> I have the hard line and the connectors. I will sale it to the club ½ price. From the work sheet .
> Dave W3PQS
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> From: k3cal-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:k3cal-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Shawn Donley
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 8:26 PM
> To: K3CAL Reflector
> Subject: [K3CAL] Hospital Installation
>  
> All,
>  
> As you probably know by now, CalvertHealth Medical Center (the hospital) has approved our proposal to install an antenna on the hospital roof and equipment in the adjacent climate controlled equipment room.   Both the roof and the equipment room can be reached by elevator and one flight of stairs ... no expensive tower climbers needed.  We will be moving the 2M repeater to the hospital as an experiment once the antenna and coax is installed. 
>  
> We already have a Diamond X300NA antenna suitable for this effort.  With the help of others I put together the attached spreadsheet to list what else we need for a quality install at the hospital.
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> This isn't a request for money but rather an opportunity to see if CARA members might have some of the needed hardware which could be donated for the cause, or know of other sources for the listed items but at a better price.
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> The 440MHz Yagi is for a link to Mt Hope.
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> I also attached a summary of the coverage tests we conducted at the hospital in October, which was very positive for 2M (and less so for 70cm)
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> Let me know if you have any questions.
>  
> N3AE
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