One important item for the up coming meeting will the Equipment donation from Randy, VE3RWN.  The Quinty club has approved their portion of the donation and
our October meeting, the club will see a motion to accept this generious
offer from Randy.  Below please see the details of this proposal.

If anyone has any questions, between now and October 4th  would be
a good discussion period  for us to chat about this generous offer.

Steven

 

Steven  VE3PTA



Approval of donation of repeaters located at the Alnwick Hill site.

See below the conditions to be approved.


September 11, 2022

Peterborough Amateur Radio Club (PARC)

c/o 1201 Grandview Avenue Peterborough, Ontario K9J 5P7

Quinte Amateur Radio Club (QARC)

c/o 546 Montrose Road Belleville, Ontario K8R 1B3

RE: DONATION OF COBOURG REPEATER EQUIPMENT TO PARC and QARC

Dear PARC and QARC Executive,

This letter documents the proposed donation of Amateur Radio Repeater Equipment to PARC and QARC respectively. This follows the site visit on September 11th where you had an opportunity to inspect the site and equipment.

Access to the CFMX transmitter tower to collocate the Amateur Radio Repeaters is quite special, and something that we’ve carefully respected and managed for 30 years. The site itself is about 1100 feet AMSL, and the antennas we use for the repeaters at least 150 feet up the 500 foot tower.

James Barnes VE3RSJ and I have maintained these repeaters over the last fifteen years or so following the end of the ULR Link System. James and I are pleased to have the repeaters going to clubs that have the membership to support and make use of these repeaters, while also continuing the service of over 30 years in providing Hwy 401 coverage between Oshawa and Brighton.

Kindly review this donation letter, and if you wish to accept this donation, simply raise and pass a motion at your next club meeting to accept the donation and take on responsibility for the repeaters as listed in this letter. A recording of the motion by your club Secretary is sufficient as no money is exchanged and we don’t want or need a donation receipt.

Randy Neals, VE3RWN Lindsay, Ontario.


DONATION TO QUINTE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

The 145.150 VHF and 444.975 UHF repeaters at Alnwick Hill are being donated to the Campbellford Radio Club on the basis that both Campbellford and Cobourg are in Northumberland County, and that there is efficiency in relationships and in serving the County in times of emergency by having both sets of Northumberland County repeaters (KFR and the Cobourg Repeaters) under common ownership. I understand the Tri-County Campbellford Club has merged with QARC, so the donation letter is addressed to QARC.

I would recommend that Brian Redden be requested to manage this new site re interfacing with the broadcast engineers at CFMX and generally managing the amateur equipment and access. Brian's experience in managing commercial broadcasting/telecom industry relationships would be valuable to interface with CFMX personnel.

Equipment and other things conveyed to QARC:

1. 145.150- MHz repeater frequency coordination with WNYSORC 444.975+ MHz repeater frequency coordination with WNYSORC

2. Equipment Rack #1

Two (2) sets of Sinclair C-2037 Multicouplers and additional Q-Circuit filters RX 144.550 / TX 145.150

3. Equipment Rack #3 (Partial contents)

Power System:

Samlex 60 Amp x 13.8V rack mount power supply with battery revert 12V Backup Battery

Power pole distribution panel, rack mount.

AC power distribution strip

VHF Repeater (145.150):

Icom FR5000 VHF repeater and rackmount chassis

Raspberry Pi AllStar Controller and USB Audio interface to repeater. *Not included: VE3CKL callsign, Node numbers for AllStar and Echolink. QARC to transition to new callsign and node number by end of 2022.

UHF Repeater (444.975):

Motorola MTR-2000 UHF Repeater (40 Watt)

Sinclair 4 cavity UHF duplexer

Sinclair SRL310C-8 and 7/8” Heliax, antenna faces East from nominally 300’ level on tower. (Former ULR Hub Antenna)

*Digital MMDVM DMR board in UHF repeater

Will remove when repeater is programmed with new call sign ID.

Randy Neals, VE3RWN Lindsay, Ontario.


DONATION TO PETERBOROUGH AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (PARC) Equipment and other things conveyed to QARC:

1. 145.895- MHz repeater frequency, although such frequency is not specifically coordinated with WNYSORC, but has been in active use for about 15 years at the site.

2. Equipment Rack #2

Two (2) sets of Sinclair C-2037 Multicouplers and additional Q-Circuit filters

RX 146.295 / TX 146.895

3. Equipment Rack #3

Yaesu DR-1X Repeater, Raspberry Pi and USB Audio Interface

*Not included, current ICOM FR-5000 repeater. PARC may use the Icom repeater until the end of 2022.

4. Network Router

Mikrotik RB-2011 Rackmount Router

5. 40 Foot Freestanding Tower "Packet Tower"

The packet tower has a dual-band fiberglass antenna on top with coax to rack #3

To accept this donation of equipment, each club should pass a motion at their next club meeting which then make this transfer of equipment and responsibility in effect and permanent.

73 and Best Regards,

Randy Neals, VE3RWN 54 Elgin Street Lindsay, ON K9V3W5 [email protected] 650-870-0211

Randy Neals, VE3RWN Lindsay, Ontario.