Apologies for the lack of a report last week. This was due to a cat biting my thumb quite severely and a resulting infection and lots of painkillers. Still, recovery has been good and here’s this week’s report for your reading pleasure.
Repeater Status Report 20200630
The last one for the month. Apologies for the late posting, was fighting network issues until early am.
Maintenance Piketberg 20200627
Michael ZS1TAF did a quick on site diagnosis on 26 June 2020 and found that the controller needed reconfiguration.
Paul ZS1V and Jan ZS1VDV went to Piketberg on 27 June 2020.
The controller was reinitialized, firmware reloaded and reconfigured. (Last done 3 November 2018)
The VHF antenna system was found to have a 2+ SWR, and needs servicing.
Repeater Status Report 20200623
Greetings! The latest repeater status report for your reading pleasure there is! (Yoda)
Repeater Status Report 20200616
For your reading pleasure, the latest Repeater Status Report is downloadable at the finely crafted link below.
Hawequa Maintenance 20200613
Jan, ZS1VDV and JP, ZS1JPM investigate why the main Eskom power feed was down. This was after snowfall stopped a visit on 11 June 2020.
A breaker was reset after the storm and power was reinstated.
Hanskop Maintenance 20200613
Jan, ZS1VDV and Sybrand, ZS1SJ did some maintenance on the backup power.
The link controller was reprogrammed and the UHF link repeater SQL was closed a bit.
Repeater Status Report 20200609
Evening, all! Apologies for the late posting, the plumbers were here replacing my geyser which finally decided to spring a leak after 34.something years on the job.
Bottelary Maintenance 20200606
Jan, ZS1VDV reinstalled the ZU9DBI VHF DSTAR repeaters internet gateway.
Updates was made to the internet link configuration
Repeater Status Report 20200602
Greetings!
After a lengthy hiatus, imposed by a PC failure (thanks Eskom), I finally managed to get a report together for publishing. I’m sure there’s been a lot happening whilst I’ve been “offnet”, so to speak, so this report won’t be bringing earth-shattering news. It gets the ball rolling.