An early morning start for site at 07h00. A pleasant drive to the site and on arrival, I removed the controller and link radio from the cabinet and brought these back to Cape Town for setting up and testing before they get re-installed.
The audio levels needed to be configured correctly.
The controller and radio were delivered to ZS1NEV who would do the necessary repairs/configuration.
After a nice breakfast in Piketberg, I headed back home and arrived back at my QTH around 13h30.
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I left my QTH at 08h00 and headed to the Jonaskop high site.
On arrival at the site, the aim was to re-install the East link radio and test communications to Riversdal. Once the radio had been connected and switched on, I called ZS1RB in George, but he could not hear me. I then contacted ZS1AAC in Stilbay and we spoke via the Riversdal repeater with good and clear signals both ways, confirming that the Jonaskop link system was working. The problem now being at Riversdal, Dana Bay or George. On further investigations, it was found that the Dana Bay site was faulty. ZS1RB will be visiting there to sort this issue out.
It was a beautiful day with temperatures predicted at 36 ̊C, a slight breeze made for an awesome site visit. After the test with ZS1AAC, I arrived back home around 14h00.
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ZS1NEV and ZS1MJT left for site at 08h00.
It was a cool day, and wind was blowing with clear skies.
Today’s task was to install the controller and link radios and test accordingly.
We installed the controller and radios and did some testing. SWR was still good 1.2:1.
Link to Hanskop was working 100%, but we hit a snag with the link to Riversdal. Further testing that side meant we had to change settings on that radio. Unfortunately, we could not do this on site and brought that radio back with us for configuration.
The link to Hanskop was left on.
We arrived home about 17h00.
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