[MCARC] 444.350+ is operating from the cable TV tower

[Ken Kopp - AKØA]

Coverage from Frankfort to Blaine on K-99 seemed to be comparable or 
slightly better than I remember it being from the grain elevator at Home.

Thanks to Nate and Farren for all the hard work.

-Ken

On 9/25/20 9:52 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> Farren and I met with Rick from Blue Vally Tech this afternoon and
> installed the repeater at the cable TV tower site.  Coverage seems very
> good.  Ken, AK0A was into it Q5 from the Washington/Republic county line
> this afternoon.  As we went home Farren had good coverage through Blue
> Rapids to within a mile of his place.  Ken was solid from downtown
> Frankfort and Q5 with a slight bit of flutter from the Robidoux Creek
> bridge west of the K 99/US 36 junction.
>
> That is the good news.  The bad news is that the Internet is not working
> well.  The cable modem on site may be bad as I am seeing a lot of
> latency logging into it remotely and ping times to the router on that
> LAN segment are erratic and vary from 9 milli-seconds to over 7 seconds!
> As a consequence, the AllStar link is not stable at this time.
>
> I am confident that Farren and I will get it resolved as I think we have
> a winner.
>
> Do get on and make some calls.  I know schedules don't always mesh well
> and for a few of us we're busy most of the day, but the repeater is
> there to be used.  It is 444.350 MHz with a + 5 MHz offset and a tone of
> 88.5 Hz.  It is still making voice announcements at the top of each hour
> and an occasional announcement at the bottom of each hour.  These can be
> used as a sort of range beacon when you're out and about.
>
> One thing I'd like to see us do is some kind of a tech net or question
> and answer net some night of the week to gin up some activity.  Other
> suggestions are welcome!  Again, this is an open repeater available to
> all radio amateurs Tech class and higher.
>
> 73, Nate
>
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