Greetings, folks!

Here it is, fresh from the printers – the latest status report, for your enjoyment. The pages may be a little damp still but a few minutes in an ion wind should sort that out. 🙂

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160419

Heya, folks!

There’s certainly been plenty of activity the past few days. Maintenance/installations happening around George, donations… loads of things going on! Juicy tidbits in the report, as usual – enjoy! 🙂

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160412

Hi, folks!

Late this evening but I thought I’d give my inbox a bit of a chance to come up with something. Nothing received so this week’s report is much the same as last. Still, good to keep the collection up to date 🙂

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160405

Evening, all!

Well, it’s a bit later than evening and I’ll blame that on the Easter weekend making tonight feel like a Monday night. It’s also two weeks since the last report, for which I must apologize – a bit of a spell last Tuesday had me overnighting with a bunch of nurses and paying for my sins on the treadmill-of-doom the next day. Suffice it to say that the party must once again be postponed 🙂

Rassie ZS1YT visited the Hanskop site this morning and replaced a dead power supply unit. Both the
145.600MHz and 434.600MHz repeaters are active on this PSU.

So, here’s the latest report for your enjoyment. 🙂

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160329

Yup, it’s a Tuesday again and that means another status report for your collection. Quite a bit on the updates front and some reformatting and… well, take a look 🙂

Maintenance reports will be made available on the WCRWG website going forward. The link to the
website is on the last page of this report.

The 434.625MHz repeater on Kanonkop has been reported down.

A Webb HD400 UHF dipole was donated by Pierre Tromp ZS1HF.

The Treasurer of the WCRWG reports the following cash donation summary, in no particular order:
• 9 individuals – R4874
• Hamnet W/Cape – R5000
• BARK – R5000
• Rally Communications – R1960
• Highsite travel donations (14) – R5484

The WCRWG reiterates its thanks to these contributors as well as all those who have donated
antennas, coaxial cable, connectors and other items.

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160315a

Hi, folks!

Well, well, well… what a week it’s been! Plenty of work done on the high sites and a bumper crop of donations. Plus a really spiffy website just jam-packed with information! All the delectable details attached, with a slight wrinkle… you’ll see 🙂

There has been a lot of maintenance on Hawequas and Hanskop this past week; full details are available on the WCRWG website – see the link at the end of the report. Full details/reports of each maintenance event are on the website, including photographs.

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160308

First of March and we get a status report! Quite a bit of activity this past week as you’ll see from the attached. Enjoy! 🙂

1. Jan ZS1VDV went to the Hawequas site to repair a crimp connection in the power box on 25/02.
2. Francois ZS1FAS, Henk and Marc (callsigns not supplied) went to Hawequas site on 27/02 and performed maintenance on the cabletray stays (rust removal/prevention), hut and external power box.

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160301

Heya folks!

Lots of work done over the weekend and the donation drought has finally been broken! Yay!

All the juicy details inside, as always. Enjoy! 🙂

Jan ZS1VDV and David ZS1DDK performed maintenance on two repeaters this Sunday past. At the Piketberg site (145.625MHz), a local interference source was found. The repeater squelch was adjusted to 0.25microvolts, the controller was reconfigured to key on CTCSS and carrier instead of carrieronly and the duplexer was finetuned.
A circulator was installed between the repeater transmitter and the duplexer. At Hawequas (145.650MHz), the UHF link repeat setting was in an inconsistent state due to a deactivation on 15 Feb to protect the transmitter. The setting was deactivated then reactivated. On both sites, the controller firmware was updated.

A cash donation has been received from Dirk van der Berg ZS1VDB.

WCRWG_Status_Report_20160223

Evening, all!

It’s been rather hectic around here lately. Tilers arrive tomorrow so shifting stuff out of the way has occupied lots of time. And energy. Ah, well, I need the exercise 🙂

Report attached for your perusal… enjoy! 🙂

Jan ZS1VDV and Rassie ZS1YT reinstalled the link controller and radios at the 145.650MHz Hawequas site on Sunday 14 February 2015. An interference issue was observed that could be cured by disconnecting the UHF link from Piketberg. Jan has requested monitoring of the interference and, if possible, observation of the UHF link from Piketberg.

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