Good evening, all!
Firstly, apologies for the lack of a report last week but a visit to hospital put the presses on hold. Everything turned out well and now there’s a report for this week. Enjoy! 🙂
Maintenance Hanskop 20160918
AGENDA:
Reinstall 434.600 Repeater and Duplexer
Research interference from 145.600 Repeater on commercial repeater
Research interference on 433.000
Research 145.600 dropout on input from Jonaskop.
Jan(ZS1VDV) left Stellenbosch 07:30.
Reinstalled 434.600 Repeater and Duplexer. Checked SWR (1.1).
Interference on 433 was determined to not be within the hut.
The interference from 145.600 and the commercial repeater was determined to be proximity. Moving antennas will be investigated. (Before tower fall it was 11m vertical, now only 1m vertical and 3m horizontal)
Could not replicate the dropout. Problem will continue.
Back in Stellenbosch 12:40
Repeater Status Report 20160913
Good evening Ladies, Gentlemen and other sentients.
It is with great pleasure that the Western Cape Repeater Working Group presents the latest Status Report for your perusal.
Be Well 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20160906
Hey, folks!
We’ve got some donations and some maintenance news this week, check out the report. 🙂
Maintenance Hanskop 20160904
Jan (ZS1VDV), David (ZS1DDK) and Andre (ZS1AN) started early at around 06:00.
We arrived on site around 08:15.
SWR was tested on a few areas on the UHF repeater, duplexer and antenna.
It was found that the repeater has a permanent PA error and will need to be serviced. The duplexer, harness is also suspect and have been returned for servicing. The antenna and coax was all working fine.
The VHF main power supply was moved from UPS power to mains power. This will now enable an short over beep on the VHF repeater when power is out on site.
Returned home around 12:00
Repeater Status Report 20160830
Heya, folks!
Almost the end of the month and a new status report for you! Couple of notes up top but the status tables have been left as-is pending confirmation.
Enjoy! 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20160823
Aaaaand it’s Tuesday again!
That means you get your weekly dose of WCRWG repeater status reportage, fresh from the word processor of yours truly, carefully packed in the highest-quality PDF wrapper and crafted using only the *finest* grade high-performance electrons 🙂
Okay, I’ll go and take my pills now. Enjoy!
Repeater Status Report 20160816
Evening, folks!
Not much new to report on this week, my inbox has been suspiciously empty. The up-to-date report is available here for your perusal. Enjoy! 🙂
Repeater Status Report 20160809
Greetings!
In the news this week, we have updates to the events schedule and there’s notes on the status of the 434.600MHz UHF repeater.
All fresh from the word processor straight to your inbox 🙂
WCRWG_Status_Report_20160809
Repeater Status Report 20160802
Good evening, folks!
Quite a busy week, this one. I had my 6-monthly checkup including a stress ECG (Doc is happy and also met our puppies), we have a political event tomorrow (do your bit!) and this week’s status report includes the long-awaited Schedule of Events. Okay, so it’s called something else but that looks a little more impressive in an announcement 🙂
These are the events that have been sent through. If you have something on the go, either a regular weekly bulletin or a sports-type event… or even a K9 exercise (not our puppies!) then drop a line to the WCRWG, or send me an email and I’ll channel it through. Sports events etc should be sent through as early as possible so that they can be listed in at least 2 reports before they occur. It’s always a good idea to get the word out in plenty of time.
So, have at it… here ya go! 🙂