680 and IRLP over the last couple of months the poor IRLP receive audio was adjusted the excessive transmitted audio was reduced the old aerial array along with the wooden pole has been removed a wooden post has been installed to replace the pole in the fence the pole stays and ground anchors have been removed a vent has been installed in the lower part of the side rack cover a metal tray and polystrene has been used to isolate the rack above the vent the repeater bin and duplexers have been shifted to the top of the rack the batteries in their wooden box have been installed in the rack the faulty power cord to the UPS feeding the IRLP has been replaced the UPS has been supplied from the power outlets in the repeater rack the IRLP equipment has been arranged for direct repeater connection still to do attempt direct IRLP / repeater connection when a spare repeater is available clean up rack when radio, supply and load no longer required 690 and the Digi Over the last couple of months agreement had been obtained from the site owners to the work required the 690 and digi aerial array on the old wooden pole has been removed the soil between the hut and the bank has been removed the old wooden pole has been removed and disposed off the soil in front of the hut door to the new pole position removed a new 10 meter pole has been installed close to the hut the original dipole aerials have been installed on the new pole new coaxial cable, connectors and lightening protectors installed the new cables in the protective pipe have been secured to the pole lightening protection in the hut installed on both new cables the 690 duplexer output has been connected to the top aerial an application made to FMTAG to convert the digi to 144.575MHz National system - lightening protection installed inside hut Still to do install the digi on 144.575MHz when approval is obtained replace the 690 T200 series standby with an operating T300 series completion of minor work below the bottom aerial on the pole seal the hut especially on the bank side and roof installed the replacement wooden door frame on the locking side final clean up of earth works on site grass seed Photographs to site owner IF the licence application proceeds without holdups and permits are obtained along with access and of course the weather allows, the digi on it's new frequency and the T300 repeater equipment, if available, should be able to be installed before the end of the month in plenty of time for the car rally My thanks go to Jim, Douglas, Doug, Roger, John, Alan, Ian, Rolly, Dave, Peter and both the site owners and the firm who supplied the pole and the equipment to move it and their staff member who gave up his own time to operate it. Without all their major contributions of time and effort we could not have reached this point when only the some equipment installation remains to obtain the full benefits of the site for amateur operation and to the benefit of the public |
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