[W6YRA] Repeater back on the air!

[Toshima, Junji]

Wow..I'm moving to north end of Catalina!

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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-----
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>>     [mailto:w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
>>     <mailto:w6yra-class-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>] On Behalf Of
>>     Ryan Caron
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>>     w6yra-class at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
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>>     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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