[W6YRA] Reminder: Club net Wednesday at 6PM (& shack tour)
Ryan Caron
rcaron at igpp.ucla.edu
Thu May 15 10:40:53 PDT 2014
And, instead of higher & better antennas, we can improve our repeater
reception with cavity filters & a preamp
On 5/15/2014 10:39 AM, Ryan Caron wrote:
> That'd be me. Sent you an email off list with the code, but we only have
> one roof key.
>
> I'm pretty sure we're already on the stacked dipoles. I'll check again
> to be sure. We were only using the short yagi before we got the
> duplexer. My apologies to everyone for the confusion.
>
>
> In terms of getting even better coverage, I'd be cautious about raising
> the antenna. Our tower issues aside, We're only 13 miles from N6MQS, and
> we already have a LOT of overlap (we're green, he is purple, overlap is
> the tan/salmon color)
> http://w6yra.bol.ucla.edu/repeaters/scrrba/
>
> Jeff, attached is a path plot and Google Earth of field strength to your
> approximate QTH. It is certainly a deep shadow, but I'm curious if you
> can hear the repeater from there, just not hit it. To clear terrain
> obstructions, the campus antenna would have to be raised from 120ft AGL
> to 608 AGL (and this is just line of sight). That's quite a tower!
>
> On your side you just have to get to 48ft AGL to get the same link.
>
> On 5/15/2014 10:32 AM, Khoury, Jeff wrote:
>> Who do I see/talk to about getting the door code to the shack and the
>> keys to the roof?
>>
>> --
>> *Jeff R. Khoury
>> *Manager, Platform Support
>> UCLA Information Technology Services (ITS)
>> 741 Charles E. Young Drive South
>> CSB1 2nd Floor
>> Los Angeles, CA 90095
>> P: 310.825.9594
>>
>> From: Kyle Colton <ky.colton at gmail.com <mailto:ky.colton at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 10:04 AM
>> To: "w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>"
>> <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: [W6YRA] Reminder: Club net Wednesday at 6PM (& shack tour)
>>
>> I think there might have been a mixup in all the coax and the repeater
>> is on a different antenna than the UHF yagi that we talked about
>> yesterday. While we were on the roof, I traced that coax and it
>> terminated on the roof. It just gives us all the more reason to check
>> which antenna the repeater is on, and clean up the roof a bit so this
>> doesn't happen again.
>>
>> Kyle Colton
>> KK6ENG
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Khoury, Jeff <jkhoury at it.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:jkhoury at it.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> LXH and I had a discussion about getting a decent vertical attached
>> to the repeater to give more even coverage.
>>
>> As soon as I get some time I will run over there and test those UHF
>> dipoles to make sure they’re working properly and switch the
>> repeater off the Yagi and on to the omnis. This will probably give
>> you better coverage since only the people southeast of the
>> University are in the lobe of the repeater antenna now.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>> --
>> *Jeff R. Khoury
>> *Manager, Platform Support
>> UCLA Information Technology Services (ITS)
>> 741 Charles E. Young Drive South
>> CSB1 2nd Floor
>> Los Angeles, CA 90095
>> P: 310.825.9594 <tel:310.825.9594>
>>
>> From: Kenneth Kuo <dogberto at gmail.com <mailto:dogberto at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 8:40 AM
>> To: "w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>"
>> <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: [W6YRA] Reminder: Club net Wednesday at 6PM (& shack
>> tour)
>>
>> Ryan & Marty,
>>
>> So it seems that I can carry out a conversation through the W6YRA
>> repeater if I get onto the roof of my complex (sorta inconvenient
>> when I feel like veggin' after coming home from work).
>>
>> Can't really hit the repeater from within my room. :-(
>>
>> Also learned that plasma TVs cause noticeable RF interference.
>>
>>
>> :-)
>> KHK
>> (AA6BB)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Ryan Caron <rcaron at igpp.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:rcaron at igpp.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to KK6ENG, KK6IZF, K0ZRO, KK6LXH, KK6KCD, and KK6KCB for
>> checking in.
>>
>> Our action items are:
>> * 5/20 (or 22) Get the UHF yagi hooked up again (ENG, NX1U)
>> * 5/24 track balloon & build HF vertical (ENG, NX1U, IZF, KU6T)
>> * Check with 800MHz group about tower maintenance (ZRO)
>> * Solder interface to MSF5000 for SignaLink / Echolink (NX1U &
>> ZRO)
>>
>>
>> On 5/14/2014 5:23 PM, Ryan Caron wrote:
>>
>> Net in an hour!
>>
>> On 5/12/2014 12:46 PM, Ryan Caron wrote:
>>
>> We will be having the net again on our repeater
>> (448.540- 82.5Hz).
>> Signal reports, both positive and negative, are welcome.
>>
>> Kyle will be in the shack during the net, so it would be
>> a good
>> opportunity to check it out if you haven't been there
>> yet. If that time
>> is inconvenient we can arrange a separate time to tour.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 73,
>> Ryan
>> NX1U
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73,
Ryan
NX1U
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