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Over the past 6 months or so our repeaters and linking systems have been giving us a few problems. Brian VE1RCF and Bruce VE1II have been diligently working to overcome our problems in the past few months. Thanks to their efforts we now own 2 Motorola MSR2000 commercial grade repeaters. Bruce and Brian with great support from Lorne VE1BXK and Brad VE1ZX have made the required modifications to make them operate in the amateur frequencies. The repeaters have been tuned and tested. They seem to be working very well. The repeaters are capable off 110 watts output, but we will be using only 40 watts to ensure no chance of overheating or interfering with other repeaters. Plans are in the works to install the new repeaters and new mounting racks that were kindly donated by the Kings County ARC. Once they are installed fine tuning will be required. There has also been some problems with our MAVCOM link on 220 mhz. We have purchased a Vertex 2000A UHF radio to use as a link radio. The link radio and antenna are installed for testing and we are getting good reports on our signal into the system. Many thanks to Brian and Bruce for all their hard work. Without their hard work our new system would not be happening. Thanks as well to Lorne and Brad for all the assistance they have given our club. It is greatly appreciated. Saturday November 10, 2007 our new repeaters and racks were installed.
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Our new MSR2000 repeaters |
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These photos show some of the modifications that had to be done |
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New cables had to be made to connect to our repeater controller |
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Derek VE1WRG from the Kings County ARC stopped in to see how things were coming along |
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Brian VE1RCF fastening Rack 1 to the wall |
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Rack 1 contains our UHF repeater
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On Saturday November 10, 2007 a work crew headed for our repeater shack at 9am to install our new equipment |
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Bill VE1WLU and Guy VE1NC Getting ready to unload the new racks |
Guy VE1NC removing the rotten pallets we had protecting our roof |
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Guy VE1NC and Bill VE1WLU installing new hardwood pallets |
Bruce VE1II labeling equipment before it is dismanteled |
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Brian VE1RCF and Bruce VE1II dismantling our old system |
Bruce VE1II and Brian VE1RCF preparing to mount VE1VAL Repeater |
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Securing Rack 2 and 3 together |
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VE1VAL and VE1WN repeaters and cavities installed |
Link radios and RLC4 controller installed |
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After a 9 hour day installing and setting up
equipment we still had a few bugs to work out. After waking up to a
snowstorm which dumped 20cm at the repeater site and put many people
in the dark |
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There were many trees bent over with the weight of heavy wet snow |
Snow trail to the repeater shack |
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Brian VE1RCF doing some testing on the repeaters |
More bent over branches |
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Eric VE1CFY opening the gate |
Snow curtain |
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New pallets doing there job |
VHF and UHF packet system |
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MAVCOM and IRLP linking radios |
VE1WN Repeater |
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VE1VAL Repeater |
VE1WN Cavities |
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VE1VAL Cavities |
RLC4 Controller |
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DC Power Supplies for Equipment |
Nice neat looking new setup |
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4 Bay folded dipole at approximately 1000 ft above sea level that our repeaters are connected to |
Brian VE1RCF Checking repeater coverage with Lorne
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