[W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!

[Stoker, Jim]

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"..

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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!

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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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