I assume AC0I was using his omni Tram 2 bander. I don't know enough about Dennis 2M antenna. I believe Bruce plans to increase the output power a smidge. Some of Dennis and AC0I is the tower itself is blocking or between your qth's and the antenna. Ken should be more line of sight except for terrain as is Dave. 

Thanks for the reports from our neighboring county hams.
73's 
Michael

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 2:23 PM Dennis Mason <masondw@bluevalley.net> wrote:
I am getting about the same as Ken....... it is noisy.    Dennis

From: "Ken Kopp" <ken@ak0a.net>
To: "Marshall County ARC" <mcarc@mailman.qth.net>
Cc: nemahacountyaro@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:43:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MCARC] Seneca Repeater

I was monitoring 715 during the net on Sunday night and it was breaking the squelch, lighting one or two s-units at my location 60 to 70 miles away here in Topeka. Probably not reliably workable for me, but definitely getting out there. Do you know what the output power is? And whether that is the same as it was before?

I also enjoyed reading some of the history on the club's QRZ profile: 

https://www.qrz.com/db/kb0mu

73,

Ken AKØA



On 4/19/22 08:58, Michael Philbrick wrote:
Good morning Fellow Hams,

I hope to provide a quick update on the Seneca repeater. For those of you who have morse code skills, you will notice the repeater id has changed to KB0MU. For those searching for the Echolink link to this repeater, it is now KB0MU-R.

The more important reason for this communication is to let the MS county hams know the squelch has been loosened or tweaked to provide a little more coverage while still keeping the repeater from constantly burping from RF. The repeater has no tone code. We are hoping some of you will again test your ability to connect through the repeater. I can report that with a 5W handheld with a non-factory, higher gain rubber duckie that I was able to carry on a little bit noisy qso from US36 and 27th Road in MS county or over 20 miles from the repeater site yesterday late afternoon.

Let us know your results. If you like to email in case you don't catch someone listening, then email to: nemahacountyaro@gmail.com

Thanks and have a great week.
73's NOUDF

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Odd Jobs Technician
Retired Guys LLC
803 N 8th
Seneca, KS 66538
(785) 294-2719


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