[NCARC] The 145.115 repeater notes and thanks.

[John at]

Hi everyone,

  James, KI0KN, has generously volunteered  to go up to the Horsetooth
repeater site with me and bring along his new Spectrum Analyzer and
Tracking Generator.   There will be some amount of activity on that
frequency for a while tomorrow as we check things out.

  I would like to thank the many that also volunteered their time.   This
trip to the repeater site will be a two man job but future maintenance
trips to the site will be scheduled with a more notice given.   Sometimes
emergency trips are necessitated which means almost no notice,  This time
it is a little less frantic.   With field day 2014 coming up...  I'm sure
we are all busy prepping for that too.

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  As an operational note,  I am going to be re-installing the Kenwood
TKR-750 repeater and a 7K controller.  The controller is temporarily until
I can get the new 7330 controller programmed with NEW stuff.

  Since, in the past, it has been noted that the obnoxious DRAGGING PIPE
sound could be eliminated by simply having the TX and RX CTCSS tones
different, I have programmed the repeater's RX tone at 100Hz (like normal)
and the TX tone at 110.5 Hz.   While this may not affect most users, I know
that some of you city dwellers are using the repeater's TX tone in your
receivers to avoid miscellaneous false squelch burst while driving around
town.    I believe that most transceivers manufactured in the last 10 or so
years are capable of operating split tone mode.  Bow-Fangs certainly will.
;-)  All my Yaesu radios do, (and they aren't that new).


John at KB0NE, amateur radio station   Getting it all together while having
it in parts.