Greetings, citizens!
1x brand new Status Report, as ordered. 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20170411
Greetings!!
Bit of excitement this week with a new high site being commissioned. No spoilers, read the report 🙂
Repeater Installation Bottelary 20170319
Panoramic View
The first digital repeater high site in the Western Cape was installed on Sunday.
ZS1VDV and ZS1DDK completed the main install on Sunday 19 March 2017.
UHF MMDVM Repeater and ICOM VHF DSTAR repeater and controller
The install on site started around 08:30. All equipment had to be carried a few 100m up the hill.
Uninstalled old equipment from rack.
Cleaned out all dead animals and dust.
Installed power supply unit.
Automatic transfer switch with low voltage dropout on battery side.
Power pole distribution block.
Installed networking router.
Did all network cabeling.
Installed MMDVM UHF repeater (DMR and DSTAR configured)
Installed ICOM ID RP2C controller and ID RP2000V repeater.
Installed VHF duplexer.
Equipment Rack
Made up coax fly leads.
Installed UHF HD 400 antenna.
ZS1VDV installing antennas
Did a final cleanup.
Returned home by 14:30
Repeater Status Report 20170404
Hi!
Good think it isn’t Saturday today otherwise you’d never know what to believe. Fortunately, none of those tricks today 🙂
Your latest report, for your pleasure.
Repeater Status Report 20170328
Hi!
Apologies for the lateness of the report, had a meeting to attend. Still, got the goods right here for y’all! 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20170321
Evening, all!
Well, my inbox has been a wasteland and it’s been really awfully warm around here, not a breath of wind. Still, there’s a repeater status report, albeit not much different from last week.
Have a good one! 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20170314
Hiya, guys and gals!
Just a quickie note with this week’s status report. 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20170307
Hi!
First report of March and we already have the donations starting. Keep it up, Chaps! Much Appreciated. 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20170228
Evening all!
Sorry, no pictures in the report tonight but a good report and plenty of donations. I was a little over-enthusiastic what with the photo and jumped the gun on the report of the work done up on Hawequas. So, with my deepest apologies to Jan and Paul, an update is included.
Enjoy! 🙂
Maintenance Hawequa 20170221
The morning started early and ended late. The wind on site provided an extra challenge, gusting at near gale speeds.  Paul (ZS1V) started at 05:30 and met Jan (ZS1VDV) to load equipment in Stellenbosch at 05:50 before arriving on site at 06:20.
Battery was tested (12.6V).
Eskom power was down on the site, so no further debugging could be done.
Back in Stellenbosch 08:00
Left Stellenbosch 18:10.
On site 18:45.
Labelled all plugs.
Reprogrammed controller. (Flash memory in controller was corrupted after too many reboots.)
Sunset
Tested everything and left site 19:45.
Back home 20:45.