[SMCARA] 64 Repeater

[JD Delancy]

Tom, Pete

Repeater sounds good here in Mechanicsville

I heard Pete this morning nearing the end of a QSO with ND3N. Time I 
found my hand-held and a charged battery, he was gone.  However, using 
the hand-held's low power position, which I believe is 150 milli-watts, 
thru 180 feet of 2-nd rate hard line to a 3-db spike at ~80 feet, I was 
able to crack the repeater

Try to catch one of you later and see how a signal like that is into the 
repeater

     jd

On 10/17/2016 12:29 PM, Tom wrote:
> You may have noticed that the repeater has a new voice!
>
> Yesterday morning, Pete and I replaced the Kenwood backup repeater 
> with the Motorola MSR 2000 with the CAT-300 controller. Several 
> differences, other than the voice ID, are improved receiver 
> sensitivity and higher power output (70 watts vs 25 for the Kenwood). 
> It is a 100 watt repeater, but we have throttled the power back to 70 
> to improve the longevity of the power amplifier transistors.
>
> Initial checks indicate that it is working well, Grant W4GMF got into 
> it with an HT from his living room in NNVA.  Please let me know your 
> observations on coverage, etc.
>
> Bells and whistles to follow and we will let everyone know the user 
> codes for certain functions. One function will be the ability to 
> disable the timeout timer, so you don't have to go through the 
> sillyness of dropping the PTT to "Get another nickle", during nets and 
> emergency use. FYI, the timer resets when you hear the courtesy tone, 
> you need to let the repeater go completely off the air to reset it.
>
> 73 from Tom and Pete
>
>
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