[RVRC] The Raritan Valey Radio Club's W2QW Repeater site

[Dave Robinson]

Hi Craig,

Interesting timing on the work.

I just acquired a new Yaesu FTM-100D rig on Saturday. The Sunday social 
net provided me a great opportunity to try the new rig out. I was 
immediately distressed when no one could copy my signal on the 2m 
system. The ETS 94 machine was linked in and they asked me to try that 
one. The signal report was very good. Another participant also seemed to 
suffer from the same issue on the 2m system.

I've also heard from other club members about trouble with other people 
getting good copy on the 2m system.

Needless to say, I'm somewhat concerned and perplexed about this 
especially since this work was done earlier in the day and comes back 
with a good bill of health. I have no doubt that all was work was done 
correctly, but now the real question is do we have some other common 
issue that would explain this situation?

I guess it might be useful to hear reports both good and bad from anyone 
else using the 2m system.

Thoughts?

73, Dave - kg2ae

PS Thanks to all for the time and effort and goodwill extended for this 
project!

On 07/17/2016 11:00 PM, Craig W Saums via RVRC wrote:
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> Raritan Valley Radio Club Members:
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> Update from the 'Hill"
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> The club had a unique opportunity today, Sunday July 17, 2016.  I received a call this morning from Paul - KC2VRJ informing me that he had made contact with Bryan Boyle - WB0YLE and Cully from Penn Wireless (sorry - I don't know Cully's callsign).  Everyone was heading to Sussex for the hamfest and our good friends from PA offered to stop at the Green Brook site on the way home to assist RVRC with a some testing and tuning.
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> Bryan, Cully and Paul met me at the site around 12:30.  Jim - KC2ZXP and Anna - KD2DUK joined us shortly after.  Cully brought his testing gear and dove in to sweep the 2 meter and 440 lines.  The 2M and 440 Duplexers were de-racked and put on the bench for analysis.  Cully re-tuned the 'cans' and everything was reinstalled. Paul, Bryan and Jim worked on some digital configuration stuff while the duplexer work was going on.  Anna provided her usual support and kept us on track.
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> The results of the testing were mixed.  The 2m system is in good shape generally.  The 440 lines showed a higher than expected SWR - so more work is needed there. Unfortunately the 440 Yaesu / digital gear is shut down until this gets resolved.  More will follow at the next meeting.  We are working on several things to try to see what can be done and when.
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> The pictures attached show the current status of the repeater relocation project.  This project started over 4 years ago and has been a much larger undertaking than any of us ever projected.  We have more to do but the major move work has been completed.  Most of the work was done by 3 PM.  Once again we owe a lots of 'Thank you's' to Bryan and Cully for helping the club.  My thanks to Paul for setting this up and thanks to Jim and Anna for helping to keep things going.
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> 1 - The radio cabinets in the shed from the door way.
> 2 - The main cabinet showing (top down) the 2M duplexer, 2M Angle Linear Pre-Amp, ICOM 2M Repeater, the computer, 440 duplexer, 440 Angle Linear Pre-Amp,            Yaesu Fusion (440) repeater, Henry 2M power amplifier, Twin Astron 40A Power Supplies.
> 3 - The rear view shows some of the coax connections, the rear of the duplexers can be seen and the EZ Gate Power managers.
> 4 - The Workbench area and some of the storage space above
> 5 - Another view of the room layout.
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> It was a good day overall.  We have a good understanding of the feedline condition, some things to investigate regarding the 440 antenna (SWR) and a general cleanup after the move.  Also of interest, the temperature in the building was very reasonable with the roof fan pulling lots of air through.
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> Susan can up for a little while too.  Thanks to Susan and the Lund family for all their patience.
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> Thanks to everyone that helped today.
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> Craig Saums
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