[W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!

Tue Apr 1 08:38:29 PDT 2014

The map is quite impressive...  In particular, it seems to have excellent
coverage of the 405 freeway from South Bay / Torrance area to UCLA...
(humm.... I got my Extra license from the South Bay Amateur Radio club).

Anyways, if anyone lives down in the Torrance area, we should try test it
one of these days...

Resurrect some sort of freeway traffic net... ha!  (with smart phones and
GPS devices, don't think that's going to happen)

:-)
KHK

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Toshima, Junji <jtoshima at ha.ucla.edu>wrote:

> Wow..I'm moving to north end of Catalina!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu [mailto:
> w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ryan Caron
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:52 PM
> To: w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!
>
> Thanks for trying to hit it Jim. Here's a path profile between you're QTH
> (assuming you're in downtown La Canada with a 40ft tower).
>
> According to SPLAT!, that's 37dB of terrain losses on top of the 114dB
> free-space path. SPLAT! indeed.
>
> Here's what I expect we have coverage of, at least roughly.
> http://w6yra.bol.ucla.edu/repeaters/repeater-los-5ft/
>
> Sincerely,
> Ryan Caron
> Associate Development Engineer
> UCLA - Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
> Tel 310-267-0696   |   Cell 603-801-8233
>
> On 3/31/2014 2:00 PM, Stoker, Jim wrote:
> > Usually repeaters only require that users transmit with CTCSS tone to
> > activate the repeater.
> >
> > In situations where nearby repeaters may be using the same frequency
> > it is sometimes useful to both transmit and require reception of CTCSS
> > tones to avoid hearing most of the transmissions coming through other
> > repeaters.
> >
> > Yaesu tends to designate the first alternative "TONE" and the second
> > alternatice "TSQL".
> >
> > So the intent here is probably for users to turn on CTCSS tone for
> > both transmissions and reception on this new repeater.
> >
> > The repeater is not accessible from my home QTH in La Canada.
> > Probably there are too many earth filters (mountains) in the way --
> > even for a 50 watt rig connected to a six element vertically polarized
> yagi.
> >
> > Jim Stoker, AG6EF
> > SEC, ARES Los Angeles Section
> >
> > On Mar 31, 2014, at 1:42 PM, "Toshima, Junji" <jtoshima at ha.ucla.edu
> > <mailto:jtoshima at ha.ucla.edu>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tone Squelch...same as CTCSS...just a lot easier to say than "Continuous
> >> Tone Coded Squelch System"..
> >>
> >> *From:*Kenneth Kuo [mailto:dogberto at gmail.com]
> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2014 1:18 PM
> >> *To:* Toshima, Junji
> >> *Cc:* w6yra-class at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> >> <mailto:w6yra-class at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> >> <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>; haroldpick at usa.net
> >> <mailto:haroldpick at usa.net>
> >> *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!
> >>
> >> oh?  The repeater is finally feeding into an antenna (as opposed to
> >> feeding into a coax masquerading as an antenna)?  awesome!
> >>
> >> Time to dust off my HT... :-)
> >>
> >> What is TSQL?  it seems that it means CTCSS tone?
> >>
> >> KHK
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Toshima, Junji <jtoshima at ha.ucla.edu
> >> <mailto:jtoshima at ha.ucla.edu>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Awesome!
> >>
> >>
> >>     -----Original Message-----
> >>     From: w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> >>     <mailto:w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> >>     [mailto:w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> >>     <mailto:w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>] On Behalf Of
> >>     Ryan Caron
> >>     Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:14 PM
> >>     To: w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>;
> >>     w6yra-class at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> >>     <mailto:w6yra-class at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> >>     Cc: haroldpick at usa.net <mailto:haroldpick at usa.net>
> >>     Subject: [W6YRA-class] Repeater back on the air!
> >>
> >>     We have a new repeater! Try it out! 448.540MHz, -5.00MHz offset,
> >>     PL 82.5 w/ TSQL
> >>
> >>     Please send signal reports in.
> >>
> >>     Thanks to everybody who made this possible:
> >>      * Jungi, KE6WGD, for donating the repeater, and the use of his
> >>     repeater programming equipment
> >>      * Harold, KG6WXK, for tuning the repeater's VFOs (and donating a
> >>     SPARE repeater, and some test coaxes)
> >>      * Monty, NI6J, for reprogramming the radio, checking the SWR,
> >>     resoldering the antenna coax, and pushing all of us to make this
> >>     happen!
> >>
> >>     I made some SWR charts of the notch duplexer we're using, and will
> >>     be making up some propagation maps. You can see them, along with
> >>     other repeater information, on our website,
> >>     http://w6yra.bol.ucla.edu/repeaters/
> >>
> >>     73,
> >>     NX1U
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