[W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!
Ryan Caron
rcaron at igpp.ucla.edu
Mon Mar 31 18:51:36 PDT 2014
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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