01/13/09
Doyle was able to bum a
ride up Capitol Peak and
was greeted by a mostly
missing antenna. He shut
off the station, and we
are now working on a
more rubust replacement.
N7UJK
11/26/08
250 miles, 6 hours;
Minot to fix link
transceiver. Replaced
IF board in the
Mastr-II. NM7R, N7UJK
11/24/08
140 miles, 5 hours;
Holy Cross to fix transmit
PL on UHF repeater. This
is necessary for some
alternate links.
Picked up nail in tire.
11/22/08
170 miles, 5 hours;
KO Peak, to move
power supply plug
from control receiver
as the socket I had
moved it to during
the 220 repeater
install was dead
(tripped breaker).
Made sure it worked
before
leaving this
time.
NM7R,
N7ONG
11/20/08
190 miles, 10 hours;
KO Peak, to install
the new 220 MHz
Repeater. Got most of
the way up F-line
when we came on
dozens of trees
across road. Doubled
back down and took
A-line to the top.
Repeater went in
well and early
reports are
promising. NM7R,
KB7APU
11/17/08
290 miles, 12 hours;
Capitol Peak to
repair packet
transceiver. Found
receiver sensitivity
way down but as
soon as I tweaked
one helical resonator
it came back. Suspect
a
"whisker".
Installed
new radio and left
old one with Doyle
as a spare. On to
Minot to install
replacement link
radio (Mastr-II
mobile) in place
of Phoenix. New
radio is modified
to accept Isolator.
NM7R, N7UJK
11/12/08
120 miles, 3 hours;
KM Hill and
Discovery Heights to
check batteries.
10/30/08
150 miles, 10 hours;
Installed the new
repeaters at South
Bend. New machines
are in individual 30-inch
cabinets. Station
now comprises base
station chassis for
both VHF and UHF repeaters
and a Mastr-II Mobile
for the link radio.
The contoller is now
a three-port one
to allow the repeaters
to be split apart
when desired. There
is also a control
receiver.
10/15/08
130 miles, 6 hours;
Installed the Warrenton
Remote Receiver to complete
the original plan for
voting
system. Unit located
in back room of Warrenton
Police Department,
courtesy of W7LEO. Has
stand-by power, antenna
on roof. Also went by
Grays River site to check
batteries on the way home.
10/14/08
100 miles, 3 hours;
Grays River (KM Hill) site
to install battery back-up.
Two 90 AH batteries from
W7TOM, charger from W7FBM.
Wired into repeater power
supply through blocking diode.
Repeater speaks 'Emergency
Power' locally when battery
powering station.
10/10/08
150 miles, 9 hours;
Naselle (2 trips) to
install voting receiver,
change frequency of
old remote receiver to
work with North Cove
repeater, move control
receiver antenna &
hardline, install
Megler link antenna
& coax, and
re-route remote base
hardline away from
County microwave waveguide.
KE7SEV, NM7HK, NM7R.
10/08/08
150 miles, 6 hours;
Holy Cross to analyze
the audio distortion
on the South Bend
repeaters.
10/02/08
60 miles, 4 hours;
Megler to install a DTMF
decoder to control the
channel disable function
on the voter panel. Mostly
for testing, this will
allow remotely shutting off
any/all receiver channels
at the voter.
09/24/08
80 miles, 6 hours;
Ilwaco, (two trips)
to install the
Cape Disappointment
remote receiver package
(Mark-Two)
to go with the Voting
system. A Mastr-II
base station power
supply was installed, since
this station will now
be working full time. A 90
AH battery (from W7TOM)
installed as back-up
power. Will try to fit
a second battery into
cabinet at a later time.
Original charger used and
old battery removed. I
was able to get in
full-quieting,
from the campground
at Cape D, low power
on an HT inside the car.
One
voting remote
receiver done,
two more to go.
09/23/08
80 miles, 3 hours;
Naselle to repair hardline
and mountings.
This is the last of the damage from last
winter. K7KID, K7WAT and NM7R.
09/18/08
60 miles, 2 hours;
Megler to change the
repeater receiver 'COS'
signal from PL-decode
only to an AND product
of CAS and PL to remove
the obnoxious squelch
crash from PL-only
switching. You'd think
I would learn...
09/17/08
60 miles, 4 hours;
Megler, to install rack shelf with
four UHF receivers and LDG voter
panel. Wired in repeater receiver
as fifth receiver. For the moment,
it is the only receiver with an
active COR, so it is the only
one that will be voted. As the
satellite receivers are
converted from the old
(PL switching) system to the
new (Signal-to-Noise voting) system, the
Megler end should be ready
to receive and incorporate
the new signals.
This was the first
step in installing a true,
automatic voting system to
manage the remote receivers
associated with the Megler
VHF repeater. The previous
system had used remote
receivers, each with a
unique PL tone. Selection
was done manually by changing
the PL tone transmitted by
your radio. This new system
will make manual intervention
unnecessary. The voting unit
will constantly evaluate the
signal-to-noise ratio of the
incoming audio streams from
the various receivers, and
use the best quality one for
retransmission. This had been
a "blue-sky" idea
until two fortuitous events.
First, I received from Pacific
County several GE Rangr
transceivers,
suitable to be used as
remote VHF receivers, UHF
link transmitters and
link receivers. Second,
I received from Grays Harbor
County, an LDG voter unit.
Putting these together made
a reality of the plan. This
also proved to be the ultimate
answer to the TV intermod at
the Megler site. By using
three alternate receivers, each
in a relatively quiet location,
two with high-gain pre-amps
and all with overlapping
coverage, the repeater site
receiver is only used when
it has the quietest signal
and the other receivers
provide great quality
audio the rest of the time.
Of course, like all
Amateur projects, this
became a
"work-in-progress".
09/10/08
180 miles, 10 hours;
KO Peak, install 220 MHz antenna,
hardline, and check APRS station.
NM7R, K7KID, WA7RW, KB7APU and K7WAT.
08/07/08
259 miles, 10 hours;
Capitol
Peak to tune
and check; Minot
to rehab link receiver
N7UJK, NM7R.
07/10/08
248 miles, 9 hours;
Capitol
Peak to replace Power
Amp, tune
and check, N7UJK, NM7R.
07/08/08
120 miles, 8 hours;
KM Hill,
Install 'Grays River' antennas,
hardline runs and
set up new 147.020 repeater. K7KID,
KE7SEV, W7FBM, KD7UEB, N7YBZ, NM7R.
07/07/08
120 miles, 4 hours;
KM Hill,
Haul equipment and take
measurements for Grays
River repeater install.
06/20/08
167 miles, 8 hours;
KO Peak for tower
work. Straightened main
antenna, checked all
connectors and dressed
mountings. Removed
old remote base antenna
collection and rusting
mount. Installed new
side arm and tri-band
antenna
for remote base.
Installed tri-plexer
at radio station for
140/220/440 modules.
K7KID, KE7JMC,
KE7SEV and NM7R.
06/13/08
75 miles, 6 hours;
Long Beach
to remove temporary repeater
and reinstall original unit
with remote base, and Megler
to install filter
on DC line
to Exciter/Receiver.
06/09/08
75 miles, 4 hours;
Naselle
repeater, reinstalled remote
base after modifying it to have
receive PL decode in FC-900
remote base controller. The
squelch has been occasionally
opening with DX repeater signals.
It's the start of summer
ducting season,
and this will allow us to silence
the noise without losing
the linking capability with KO Peak.
It works perfectly.
Decode function is remotely
controllable.
05/31/08
25 miles, 1 hour;
Long Beach
to replace link transceiver in
temporary repeater.
05/30/08
75 miles, 6 hours;
Naselle and
Long Beach.
05/29/08
140 miles, 6 hours;
KO for antenna
work. Kevin, Thatcher, Ed and Jody
along. Stopped by snow a bit over a mile
from the top. Kevin and I stopped
at Long Beach on the way back to fix cable
mounting.
05/15/08
75 miles, 6 hours;
Naselle &
Long Beach repeaters,
took remote base
package from Long Beach machine to
Naselle site and swapped out with
the remote base package there.
Brought the Naselle package home to
diagnose the problem with the link
receiver 'blowing squelch'.
03/26/08
25 miles, 4 hours;
Long Beach
repeater, pulled entire
station and
installed temporary replacement.
02/25/08 75 miles,
7 hours; Naselle antenna work (with Kevin),
straightened main antenna. Weather closed in.
02/26/08 75 miles, 5 hours;
Naselle antenna work (with Kevin),
replaced remote base antenna and
replaced crushed remote base antenna
coax with LDF4-50 1/2-inch
hardline.
02/25/08 75 miles,
7 hours; Naselle antenna work (with Kevin),
straightened main antenna. Weather closed in.
02/18/08 200 miles,
12 hours; Capitol Peak (with Doyle) in Bruce's
SnoCat to replace antenna.
02/15/08 150 miles,
8 hours; Holy Cross (with Kevin) to replace
broken antenna.
02/14/08 80 miles, 6 hours;
Took up the airplane on the first
good-weather day after the Big December Storm
(with Doyle). Surveyed all
the BeachNet sites and were able to see
all of them. Most accessible, except
KO Peak and Capitol Peak still had lots of
snow. Discovered missing antenna
at South Bend.
12/29/07 75 miles, 4 hours;
Megler with Bob Frost and his Spectrum
Analyzer.
12/18/07 75 miles, 6 hours;
Megler intermod chase.
12/16/07 75 miles, 5 hours;
Megler with Bob Frost.
12/15/07 75 miles, 6 hours;
Megler intermod chase
11/21/07 75 miles, 6 hours;
Megler antenna adjustments.
11/19/07 75 miles, 10
hours; Megler IRLP receiver replacement
to improve sensitivity. Curious that the five
1 KW TV translators are
all UHF, and yet they bother the VHF
repeater and not the UHF one. Or,
could it be
leakage from the Chinook
cable TV system?
11/18/07 75 miles, 8 hours;
Megler VHF circulator
install.
11/17/07 75 miles, 8 hours;
Megler antenna completion,
mounting and dressing hardline.
11/16/07
75 miles, 10 hours;
Megler antenna relocation
of dual-band Hystler
from building roof
to top of tower. This will be VHF receive
and UHF Tx & Rx antenna.
G6-140 2-meter antenna
installed on
the building roof is now
the VHF transmit antenna.
10/06/07 KO; 170 miles, 8 hours;
install & activate control receiver.
09/25/07 KO; 170 miles, 8
hours; replace receiver.
09/24/07 Megler; 60 miles, 4
hours; change PL tone to stop
repeater keying itself up. Installed a
line to a controller remote
switch that changes the PL
remotely from
118.8 to 82.5. I later decided
that continually changing the tone to
avoid the TV buzz was more confusing
than just changing it permanently. So,
unless some magic bullet comes
along to fix the buzz, the Megler tone
is now 82.5 Hz.
09/24/07 KO; 170 miles, 12 hours;
troubleshoot receiver failure.
Replaced receiver.
09/20/07 Megler; 60 miles, 6
hours; Duplexer touch up and
site maintenance. Jay,
W7FBM, also along. Still trying to get the
TV retrace buzz out of the
repeater. Tried pass
cavity on transmitter,
no difference. Moved it to
receiver, still no difference.
08/??/07
Hood-To-Coast again accommodated
with the 147.18 Megler and
440.675 Naselle repeaters tied
together
and then linked to
a Columbia County 146.88
repeater to provide Medical and
Administrative circuit for race committee.
08/??/07
170 miles,
12 hours;
Cosmopolis
repeater site to
change antenna and hardline
(replaced half-inch
hardline with
7/8-inch).
08/??/07
160 miles, 5 hours;
North
Cove to inspect duplexer
move from floor under repeater to
ceiling. John & Joe did a nice job!
07/??/07
825
miles, 36 hours;
Three (3)
round trips to Capitol
Peak to work on the
packet gateway
station. Finally
figured out the four
transmitters
keyed together
pulled the power
supply down and
reset the packet TNC.
05/22/07
130 miles,
4 hours;
South Bend equipment
retrieval.
05/12/07
250 miles, 10 hours;
Capitol Peak,
general minor gremlin removal...
04/29/07
250
miles, 16 hours;
Capitol Peak install;
antennas,
hardline, cabinet.
04/23/07 80 miles, 3 hours;
Naselle, change out power supply.
04/07/07 220 miles, 10
hours; Minot; Frequency change to
444.050. This is to free up the
444.950 frequency for Capitol Peak.
WWARA has agreed to the plan.
Capitol Peak will be a high site
with long range coverage. Finding
a suitable pair would be difficult
if not impossible. Our existing
444.950 pair is not used anywhere
else in Western Washington, so moving it
to CP makes sense. The 444.050 pair
will probably work fine on Minot, because
it is blocked to the north, shielded from
Puget
Sound.
03/30/07
120 miles, 8 hours;
KO Peak, 10m antenna install.
Antenna is a vertical dipole
suspended off side
of tower.
03/10/07 260 miles, 12 hours;
Capitol Peak, Site Survey.
Doyle wants to sponsor a station with packet
gateway and UHF repeater.
My first close up look at the site. Nice new
building and tower.
01/24/07 170 miles, 12 hours; KO Peak,
replace PA. This one
has a Z-match.
12/27/06 140 miles, 6 hours; Holy
Cross Packet transceiver replacement.
12/22/06 140 miles, 6 hours; Holy
Cross Packet failure diagnosis.
12/05/06 140 miles, 5 hours; Holy Cross
audio repair and
balance. Audio was overdriving on VHF side.
Rechecked all combinations
with each of the three receivers and three
transmitters so a 1 kHz tone
at 3 kHz deviation going in any port comes out
all ports unchanged.
12/04/06 140 miles, 6 hours;
Holy Cross Audio repair and
balance. VHF and UHF receivers not
the same level. New scheme has them
mixed on a modified audio card.
09/29/06 330
miles, 12 hours; Weatherwax repeater
replacement with very-low-current-draw
unit and Minot
packet node repair.
08/27/06 190 miles, 8 hours;
Minot for link repairs and replacement of the
packet station.
08/25-26/06 24 hours; Hood-to-Coast
relay public service support; Megler
147.18 repeater was tied to Naselle 440.675
repeater. These were disconnected
from BeachNet for the two-day event, and the
Naselle remote base connected
to the 146.76 Nicolai repeater, allowing the
Race Committee in St. Helens
to communicate effectively with the last few
stages and the finish. The
circuit created was used
for medical and emergency traffic, while the
Astoria linked system was used for Operational matters.
08/24/06
28 miles, 8 hours; Discove
ry
Heights & Ilwaco FM station, move
batteries and 146.86 PCARC repeater
from DH to the FM tower, and install
my Cape D remote receiver
(Mark-One) at DH.
08/22/06
190 miles, 8 hours; KO Peak,
finish up remote base
antennas. Cut 20-feet off the main hardline and
moved connector. Fitted
remnant of LMR-600 cable from hardline to repeater.
The book says the
difference between 100 feet of LMR-600 and
LDF5-50
should be about 1 dB,
but the
change has made
a far bigger difference
anecdotally.
08/11/06 75 miles, 3 hours;
Megler, UHF link retune. Locks are
back in proper order with new hasp.
08/14/06 180 miles, 12 hours;
KO Peak, Straightened antenna
and replaced original LMR-600 coax with
100-feet of LDF5-50 7/8-inch
hardline in mounting cushions. Hardline
was 120-feet long, so we ended
up with 20-feet wrapped around the inside
of the building on the cable
tray when it came time to leave.
08/08/06 52 miles, 2 hours; Megler,
IRLP PL change to 82.5. Lock hasp
had been cut by County Telecom Manager. Timber
company lock not in chain now.
08/07/06 44 miles, 1.5 hours; Megler,
Gate locked (skunked again).
08/06/06
44 miles, 1.5 hours; Megler,
Gate locked (Locks
rearranged but ours still not in chain). Again
advised County Manager.
08/05/06 44 miles, 1.5 hours;
Megler, Gate locked (our lock
not in chain). Called Timber Co. They said
they would
fix right away.
Called to advise County Telecom Manager.
07/17/06 270 miles, 8 hours;
Neilton install. Problem
turned out to be a single broken finger in
the center conductor
of an N-Female connector on the duplexer. It
took hauling it home
and going over the entire machine with a
flashlight and a fine
tooth comb to find it. The other three
fingers had overheated and
lost their temper, causing an intermittent
connection on the transmit
side of the duplexer.
07/10/06 75 miles, 2 hours;
Megler change PL to 82.5. This
cured the problem of the spontaneous
key-ups, but the buzz is still
there on weak signals just above the
squelch threshold.
07/06/06 75 miles,
4 hours; Megler troubleshoot of
intermod. Bonded and grounded everything I could.
07/05/06
75 miles, 4 hours;
Megler to
diagnose intermod
problem. TV retrace
buzz is
bad
enough to false
trigger the PL decoder on
118.8 causing repeater to key
up spontaneously with
loud buzzing noise.
06/18/06
270 miles, 8 hours;
Neilton to repair
repeater. After several hours not able
to pin-point problem,
pulled entire
repeater to take home.
06/13/06
313 miles, 13 hours;
Weatherwax install and Neilton PA
replacement. Neilton had been intermittent
for some time, going from full
power to barely readable or off-air, and
then back. New PA seemed to cure
the problem, but a few hours later the
problem returned.
05/28/06 75 miles, 8 hours;
Megler several little
upgrades.
05/27/06 225 miles, 12 hours;
Minot link antenna
upgrade to dual phased
yagis. Link path is directly through the
phone
company tower
and horns across
the
road. This antenna design 'burned
through' and gives good
performance.
04/28/06 225 miles, 11
hours; Minot antennas,
repeater antenna moved to tower and
link antenna moved to
mast on building.
04/21/06 185 miles,
10 hours; KO finish up. Brought new
exciter cable and secured in place.
Dressed cabling on repeater
that had been cut loose and
disturbed previously.
Tested and checked everything.
No discrepancies noted.
04/20/06 &nbs
p; 75 miles, 4 hours;
Replace Megler Repeater with
upgraded version. It is far more efficient
to build and test a
complete new
replacement
station at home, and then change it out
on the hill, rather than do extensive work
on site. This
is my normal
policy with extensive work. Whenever
possible, minimize time
on the hill. It is always easier to do the
work at home and it turns out looking and
working better.
04/14/06 184 miles, 11
hours; KO for transmitter
troubleshooting and repair. Found
bad cable from exciter
to PA. Jerry rigged a
temporary repair.
04/13/06 181 miles,
8 hours; PCEMA Meeting
in SB, Trip to Shoalwater Reservation,
North Cove, and Holy Cross for
inspection and minor
maintenance.
This side
trip lead to a successful Technician
class and a dozen new hams in
North County.
03/31/06 65 miles, 4 hours;
Megler, local link antenna
replacement after falling ice had
destroyed the old one.
03/30/06 175 miles, 6 hours;
replace VHF receiver Holy Cross.
03/27/06
230 miles, 8 hours;
abortive trip to KO, and Holy
Cross troubleshooting stop.
03/24/06 175 miles,
6 hours; install wx station on Holy Cross.
10/29/05
175 miles, 12 hours;
Visited
Neilton to reprogram and
modify Phoenix link
transceiver for link Rx PL and
2-channel link.
I added CTCSS decode
on the link receivers to suppress
out-of-area signals on 441.675,
especially during the summer ducting season.
The links were originally carrier squelch to
make the switching times as fast as possible.
The GE Phoenix radios I used for linking require
reprogramming the X2212 EEPROM and a minor
hardware mod.
10/25/05
125 miles, 6 hours;
Modify link transceivers at
Megler and Holy Cross for
link Rx PL and 2-channel link.
10/24/05
10 miles, 3 hours;
ARES Meeting at Bob Cline's
house re: BeachNet.
10/22/05
187 miles, 14 hours;
Visited Minot,
Neilton and Cosi sites. Replaced
Power Supply and reprogrammed and
modified Phoenix link
radio at Minot for link
Rx PL, reprogrammed and modified
Phoenix link radio at Cosi.
Locked out of
building at Neilton.
10/21/05
193 miles, 8 hours;
Visited KO Peak,
Holy Cross and Naselle sites.
Hooked up transmit PL on KO
repeater as first step in
implementing PL on the links,
reprogrammed Phoenix link radio
at Holy Cross for PL on
KO Frequency,
and replaced (upgraded) Power
Amplifier at Naselle.
This one has Z-match.
10/18/05
120 miles, 4 hours;
Visited Holy Cross
to get repeater back on air.
07/31/05
140 miles, 6 hours;
Holy Cross Repeater Site; Repair
147.940 receiver and add PAR filter
to notch out paging intermod.
07/29/05
75 miles, 9 hours;
Naselle Repeater Site;
Finish cable mounting install
on tower.
07/28/05
75 miles, 2 hours;
Naselle Repeater
Site; K7KID along,
Weather not cooperative.
It is probably
appropriate to point out here that
this completed the
construction of a new UHF
repeater on a 2000-foot
mountain that had not
seen an Amateur
repeater for almost 20 years.
Rents on the site were prohibitive.
A comment by an
acquaintance led me to believe a
rent-free billet might
be possible. This
required soliciting
permission from the
site owner,
obtaining the cooperation of Pacific County
Emergency Management Agency and it's
oversight Council.
It meant assembling,
fabricating and testing
the station components
in my shop, followed by
installing the equipment
at the site.
On the
paperwork front, there was
finding a likely frequency pair,
negotiating with the
co-channel neighbors by email
for letters giving conditional
permission to
share their
pair for testing, and filing
with WWARA toward repeater
coordination and a
permit to build and test.
<
b>All this was
accomplished (from twinkle-in-the-eye to
finished working repeater)
within three weeks. The station
includes a 110-watt
continuous-duty GE Mastr-II
base station with
ACC RC-96 controller, FC-900 remote
base on 140/220/440
MHz bands, Sinclair duplexer,
Sinclair dual section isolator,
DCI 440-450 pass filter,
100-feet of LDF5-50 7/8-inch
hardline,
mounted in cushions, and two
GE Mastr-II
auxiliary receivers, one
associated with the Megler
repeater and the other a
dedicated control receiver.
The Power Supply is
a GE.
The antenna is a Comet X510
dual-band (UHF for
the repeater and VHF for
a remote receiver augmenting
the Megler repeater coverage)
mounted inside a Stationmaster
radome shell, at the top of
the tower.
This repeater fills the last
remaining "hole" in the
Pacific County coverage. On
the air 28 July 2005.
07/27/05 75 miles, 6 hours; Naselle Repeater Site;
Finish dressing cable in building.
07/26/05 75 miles, 9 hours;
Naselle Repeater Site; also
Kevin (K7KID)
and
Shane (N7XAC),
Antenna and 7/8-inch
hardline install.
07/22/05 140 miles, 4 hours;
South Bend to swap keys
and Naselle for recon,
planning and measurements.
07/21/05
120 miles, 2.5 hours; South
Bend to
pick up key for Naselle.
Turned out it was the wrong key...
07/19/05 25 miles, 1.5 hours; PUD Commissioners
Meeting; Seeking permission
for new (Naselle) repeater installation.
07/14/05 30 miles, 1.5 hours; PCEMA Council Meeting;
Seeking permission for
new (Naselle) repeater installation.
07/14/05 Received Certificate of
Appreciation
for BeachNet activities
from Pacific County Emergency Management
Council in recognition of contribution
to Public Service and
Disaster Preparedness.
It's always easier to ask
permission
for something
after they have handed you
an award.
07/12/05 52 miles, 3 hours; Megler adjust PL and
install Tx PL on 147.180.
07/11/05 52 miles, 4 hours; Megler install
COS/PL logic board in IRLP
repeater.
07/08/05 175 miles,
7 hours; Cosi replace receiver.
02/14/05
150 miles,
10 hours;
Trip to relocate Raymond site equipment to
Holy Cross
02/09/05
160 miles, 8 hours;
Trips (2) to install
IRLP repeater at Megler
02/04/05
165 miles, 6 hours;
Trip to North Cove to repair
transmitter.
02/03/05
80 miles,
6 hours; Trip to Megler
consolidate equipment to make room
for (IRLP) repeater
10/??/04 175 miles, 7 hours; Cosi change
frequency to 145.39;
swap out crystals
and retune duplexer.
This was to solve
the co-channel
problem on 145.170.
08/13/04 160 miles,
6-1/2 hours;
Install the
145.170 repeater at
Cosmopolis Hill.
08/07/04
200 miles, 14
hours;
Swap frequencies;
444.700 to
Neilton and
444.950 to
Minot. Picked
up duplexer and
crystals from Minot,
took to Neilton
and swapped with the
ones there, returned
to Minot and
installed duplexer and
crystals from Neilton. Also
relocate link antenna at Minot.
We had a co-channel issue
with the 444.700 frequency in
Puget Sound area, and the
444.950 frequency is not in use
there. Swapping the two pairs
between the sites solved the
problem.
08/04/04 160 miles,
5 hours; Repair controller
problem at North Cove.
07/31/04
240 miles, 12 hours; Install
444.700 Minot Peak repeater (Elma).
07/25/04 120 miles, 11 hours; Tech
class and VE exam South Bend.
07/24/04 200 miles, 13 hours; Technician
class South Bend and Cosmopolis
repeater site visit.
07/18/04 168 miles, 8 hours;
KO Peak; Install 220 remote
base
antenna and mount
repeater coax, upgrade
power supply and retune
repeater.
07/17/04 120 miles, 7 hours; Technician
Class in South Bend
07/10/04 168 miles, 7 hours; KO Peak; power amp noise problem.
07/09/04 168 miles, 8 hours; KO Peak; duplexer replacement
(Motorola 4-can-pass went to Long Beach/Phelps-Dodge 6-can pass-notch
installed) and station tune-up. The Phelps is certainly a superior
filter. Installed 2 temperature sensors, heatsink and outdoors.
