KB3AWQ 6 Meters

07/17/2024

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06/24/2024

53.050 now doing 25 watts.

04/18/2024

444.9 is back on the air, as is 53.050

04/16/2024

It appears the 444.900 repeater transmitter is not working. This also affects the 53.050 repeater by not allowing it to work and also leaves 147.300 as standalone. 29.660 repeater will also work as standalone. It may be until this Saturday until I make it up there.

12/27/2023

Last night, we changed 52.490 simplex into a split site repeater. 53.050 –1 MHz offset, PL 131.8. The receiver is 3 air miles west of the transmitter, which is doing 45 watts. Everything is still linked to the rest of the system, the only difference is the frequency and that it is a split site repeater now. The transmitter is receiving 444.900 directly over RF. Visit Repeaterbook for the listing.

12/16/2023

52.490 simplex PL 173.8 is on the DB-212 folded dipole once again. Had to have it taken down to replace the coax and is now back up on the southern side of the tower (previously NW). It's up at 30 feet on the tower.

11/25/2023

52.490 Simplex PL 173.8 is back on the air still hooked to the 6m Ringo facing Southeast for now until work an be done to the DB-212. At this time going to keep it as a simplex remote as the 6m transmit seems to be working without interfering with the 29.56 receiver since a ICE 432 Bandpass filter was added.

10/24/2023

The system is setup on the TGIF DMR network on Time slot 2 Talkgroup 29660 under 3175335.

05/06/2022

52.490 Simplex PL 173.8 is back on the air but is hooked to the 6m Ringo facing South for now as there seems to be an issue with the DB-212 likely connection or coax issue on the tower.

05/01/2022

KB3AWQ system rack mounted earlier today

04/07/2022

I changed 29.640 to 29.660 for the Williamsport repeater yesterday. It seemed to be a quieter frequency at the tower site for receiving.

02/21/2022

If you hear "user blocked" on the repeater, the reason is described here. https://confluence.brandmeister.network/display/BRAN/Voice+message+User+blocked I have a DMR bridge setup connected to the Timeslot 2 talkgroup 314230 which is the local 443.050 DMR repeater so this allows the local for 443.050 DMR, 444.900, 147.300, 29.640 and eventual 52.490 to connect from Analog to that talkgroup and vice versa.

10/02/2021

29.64 is on the air https://www.repeaterbook.com/repeaters/details.php?state_id=42&ID=20359

09/26/2021

Today I made a few changes that affects the 52.490 link mostly. The 52.490 radio I changed to 29.540 PL 173.8 Receive only but it is still connected to the 6 meter DB-212 folded dipole currently so receive may suffer some on 29.540. The idea is to do a split site 10 meter repeater (which is all but there). The transmit side is still on 29.600 until we make it to that site to change the transmit frequency to 29.640 PL 173.8. In reality it is a repeater right now but not on the right output frequency (its on 29.600 instead of 29.64). The 10 meter transmit is a modded DB-212 folded dipole about 40 ft on the north side of the tower at Armstrong doing 50 watts like it has been. I need to get a 10 meter antenna up at the receive site so its not on a 6 meter antenna which the plan is to use the old Antron 99 as the receive antenna.
To make it simple, now 29.600 PL 173.8 is the output frequency until I change it to 29.640 the real repeater output frequency and 29.540 PL 173.8 is the input which is already set. Both in and out will have a PL of 173.8 PL tone. For now, give it a try as is but know that the receive antenna may not work as well with the antenna being 52 Mhz instead of 29 Mhz.
After we see how this does and as long as everything works OK, we can then move on to getting 52.490 back on the air.

08/27/2021

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08/03/2021

http://44.56.206.18:82/supermon2/link.php?nodes=513962 10 meters

AllStar node manager

08/03/2021

http://44.56.206.2:82/supermon2/link.php?nodes=513960,513961 444.900

AllStar node manager

08/03/2021

http://142.202.248.253:82/supermon2/link.php?nodes=513963 Hub

06/07/2021

Been getting several stations coming in on 29.500 and even some on 52.490 here with the band openings lately. I have been trying to leave the 173.8 PL tone off providing noise stays out.

Some codes are available on 52.490 Simplex if your microphone has a touchtone pad/DTMF.

If the PL tone would need activated you would need to be on 52.490 and enter *968 and you will get audio back saying RX PL ENA.
To turn the PL off, you would enter *969 and it will say RX PL DIS

To test your touchtones, enter *973numberstotest # or example *9731234567890 # and it will read back 1234567890 if it decoded them properly.

For an audio test enter *979 and talk without unkeying and when you unkey your mic you will hear yourself and what your signal/audio sounds like.

To connect to an Allstar node, you need to know the node to connect to which can be searched on http://stats.allstarlink.org/maps/allstarUSAMap.html or https://www.allstarlink.org/nodelist/ once you have the node number you will need to enter *3 followed by the node number. To disconnect you will need to enter *3 followed by the node number.

To connect to an Echolink node, its a similar process except you need to know the Echolink node which can be search on https://secure.echolink.org/links.jsp or https://secure.echolink.org/logins.jsp and then to connect you would enter *33 followed by the node number and *31 followed by the node number to disconnect.

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