Emergency Amateur Radio Club: Repeater Logbook

The following information is courtesy of our repeater technical support team, Jim Connell (KH6JKG), Chris Colquhoun (NH7QH) and Todd Kawamoto (KH7UK).

12 December 2007 - The console at The Honolulu Department of Emergency Management is not working at this time.

10 December 2007 - The Diamond Head VHF repeater 146.880- is inoperable, repairs are in progress. The 444.500+ repeater remains operable.

12 January 2006 - The Diamond Head VHF repeater 146.880- is operating on an alternate antenna has reduced transmit and receive range. It is recommended that users utilize the UHF side on 444.500+. - NH7QH/KH6JKG

December 2005 - The Mauna Kapu VHF repeater 146.800- is down and being serviced. The Mauna Kapu UHF repeater is operating on very low transmit power. - NH7QH/KH6JKG

20 October 2005 - The Olomana VHF repeater 146.660- is back up. - KH7UK/NH7QH/KH6JKG

24 September 2005 - The Mauna Kapu VHF repeater 146.800- is down again due to noise getting through the squelch intermittently for several days. - KH7UK/NH7QH

02 September 2005 - The Mauna Kapu VHF repeater 146.800- is now operational. The Mauna Kapu UHF repeater 444.100+ is now operational, but on low power. - KH6JKG

18 August 2005 - The Olomana VHF repeater 146.660- was confirmed to be not working. - KH7UK

26 February 2004 - The Mauna Kapu VHF/UHF repeaters down due to continued interference. We will post more information as soon as it becomes available.

13 January 2004 - The Mauna Kapu UHF machine has been up for several weeks... we only changed the status box today. Also, the Laie 146.640- repeater is not linked to Peacock Flats at this time. Jim will head to the repeater site sometime this week to check on it.

10 December 2003 - The Mauna Kapu UHF 444.100+ repeater is currently down. We will be checking on the possible causes of interference that has been keying the repeater with an open carrier and static.

07 December 2003 - The 146.640- Laie repeater is currently not linked to the 146.760- Peacock Flats repeater. A trip to the site will be done in the near future.

06 October 2003 - The Diamond Head 146.880-/444.500+ repeaters are operating at full power. Thanks to Kevin, AH6QO, for passing along the good news.

30 September 2003 - The Diamond Head 146.880-/444.500+ repeaters are up once again.

29 September 2003 - The Diamond Head 146.880-/444.500+ repeaters are down. The repeater status page has been updated. Will post more information as it becomes available.

29 August 2003 - The Mauna Kapu 146.800-/444.100+ repeaters are up and working properly. The repeater status page has been updated. Thanks to Jim (KH6JKG), and Todd (KH7UK) for their hard work.

12 June 2003 - The Mauna Kapu 146.800-/444.100+ repeaters are currently down. No further information is available at this time.

1 June 2003 - IRLP node '3668' operational atop the Peacock Flats 146.760- and linked Laie 146.640- repeater. Thanks, Jim and Carter (KH6FV). The links sounds awesome.

1 April 2003 - IRLP node '3197' operational atop the Olomana repeater, thanks Jim. Usage guidelines are currently being considered. More later.

19 March 2003 - Courtesy tone on the Diamond Head repeaters re-enabled.

16 January 2003 - All repeaters are still up.

31 October 2002 - 146.66 MHz repeater is back up. The board is green. Todd conferred with Jim and reset the alarms.

29 October 2002 - 146.66 repeater is down due to a continuous CW ID.

15 October 2002 - All repeaters are still up. No major problems reported since June.

25 June 2002 - All repeaters are up. Jim, KH6JKG writes, "Today I managed to get to Mauna Kapu in the PM. I installed one of the VHF Eng. that was tuned up for 146.20/146.80. The Motorola mobile didn't operate porperly. So, I will need to do more troubleshooting on this unit, time permitting."

13 June 2002 - 146.88 MHz repeater is back up. Jim, KH6JKG and Randy, AH6Q picked up the VHF repeater from the HFD radio shop and reinstalled it at Diamond Head.

15 May 2002 - From Todd, KH7UK, "The 146.880 repeater is down due to very weak output signal. It sounds as if the power amplifier may have failed. Reports from Mike WH7T and Ray NH6RZ state that the repeater dropped out about 2100 Monday night. It was stated that this occurred about the time of the Makiki area power failure last night. Coincidence? Hard to say. Mike also brought up the possibility that rain got into the feedline, causing an increased SWR, causing the PA to shutdown. Whatever the case, I disabled the VHF side transmitter in case the PA is still trying to run full power into high SWR. When I tested it, transmit power was very low, similar to the Y2K failure when the PA of that machine failed and the exciter transmitted barely to the Makiki area. The UHF repeater 444.500+ is up and operating normally to the best of my knowledge. I may enable VHF receive only, so in case someone calls on VHF, at least people listening to UHF can hear them."

10 May 2002 - Net on Olomana and Diamond Head repeaters on Saturday, 11 May 2002 about 1330W to 1430W in support of the OCDA District 4 Hub Shelter Comm Test. Coordinator is Clem Jung, KH7HO.

19 April 2002 - AH6QO DE KH6JKG: Please change D449.150- to: U449.15- (in green.) Todd, did a great job on balancing the audio. ID's, UHF, VHF. Plus adding more labels. So, If there is ever a need to change or upgrade the controller, the process is less time consuming.

19 April 2002 - Net on 688 on Saturday, 20 April 2002 about 0630W to 0930W in support of the March of Dimes WalkAmerica. Coordinator is Wayne Jones, NH6K.