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First of the new month, first report of the new month! Enjoy, folks! ๐
Hi!
First of the new month, first report of the new month! Enjoy, folks! ๐
Hi, folks!
Must say it was chilly up at the ‘700 this morning. Still defrosting my situpon! ๐
Here’s your status report, fresh as a daisy! Careful, electrons are still sticky.. ๐
On Tuesday 25 July, Sean ZS1BSD and Paul ZS1V headed to Constantiaberg to attend to the 145.700 repeater which was transmitting, but not modulating.ย ย The weather was only a few degrees above freezing and it was raining with only 10m visibility at times.ย The lower part of the road was muddy an churned up by the heavy logging equipment in use in the area that is still clearing up the remains of the fire that devastated the area about 18 months prior.
Although the Motorola appeared to be working after a reset, it was removed for further testing and diagnosis and the PRF1050 backup repeater was installed in its stead.ย The PRF1050 has been fitted with a new CTCSS decoder, courtesy of Sean ZS1BSD.ย The required CTCSS deviation level is now more in line with typical commercial repeaters and not the very high levels required by the previous CTCSS decoder on the PRF1050.
Access to the site remains challenging.ย Specific access arrangements had to be made with the nature conservation officials with the help of Sentech.
Jan (ZS1VDV) and Rassie (ZS1YT) went to Hanskop to investigate the controller not responding to DTMF.
Started packing vehicle 06:30, left Stellenbosch 07:00.
Had to drive very slowly up as the road is in very bad condition and had the sun just over the horizon.
On site by 08:15. The temperature outside was 1.2 degrees, the wind was cutting through everything.
The problem with the controller was found to be interference on the 145.600 Repeater.ย The interference is not from our equipment but most likely from WISP equipment.
The 145.600 repeater’s SQL was closed to 1.1uV (about 4 times more that what it should be).ย This only helps about 80% of the time. The interference will need more work/investigation.
All SWR was checked. VHF repeater (1.1), UHF repeater (1.1), Jonaskop link (1.6).
CTCSS was added to the 434.650 repeater.
Home at Stellenbosch by 12:45.
Hi, everyone!
Sorry for the late-ish report – been out on a patrol with the local neighborhood watch group. Still, they say all good things come to those who wait ๐
Evening all!
Bit of a rush tonight so can’t stop and chat… but there’s always the status report to keep ya company… cya!! ๐
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First report of the month! It’s the 4th of July, a date of some significance in some parts of the world. Here, it’s Tuesday. ๐
Latest report for you to enjoy! ๐
Hi, Folks!
Sorry about the lateness of the hour, had a meeting with the local neighbourhood watch that went on a bit. Still, ain’t gonna skip the report – here for your reading pleasure ๐
Today Jan ZS1VDV and David ZS1DDK went to the site to service the power problem.
It was found that the DC power distribution box was faulty and replaced.
VHF repeater SWR was tested (1.2)
UHF repeater SWR was tested (1.4)
Backup battery voltage was measured (13.8V)
Hi, folks!
Well, there’s been some more nice rain lately. Jan took a lovely photo of water running down the mountain when he was up at a high site recently, check it out here on the website!
And, of course, here’s the weekly report ๐