KK4ICE

FCC Licensed Amateur Radio Operator, Extra Class

Alinco DR-605 Mic Cable Repair

I haven’t posted to this site in quite some time because I’ve been very busy with broadcast engineering projects. So I thought I’d take time out to do a few repairs on my Alinco DR-605 dual band mobile and share a few pics to show the improvements. I chose to start out by repairing the […]

Calibrating a Leitz Seikkosha TM-20C Theodolite For Multiple Uses

Leitz Seikkosha TM-20C Theodolite Added to Equipment for Checking Towers for Vertical/Plumb, Pad Layouts, etc. Primarily for use in my broadcast engineering work, I recently acquired a Leitz-Seikkosha TM-20C Theodolite. Ironically, I found it on eBay and in the process of buying it discovered I was purchasing it from a fellow ham radio operator up […]

A Sure Way To End Any Future Droughts

I have figured out a sure-fire way to put an end to any future drought: Have a tower rigging crew scheduled to do work on one of the towers. Tomorrow is at least the fifth time I’ve had a crew scheduled to finish taking down a tower at one of the sites. But of course […]

KE4COL 145.230 Gold Hill / Auburn, AL Repeater Now Running on Mastr III

The KE4COL 145.230(-) Gold Hill / Auburn, AL repeater is back to running on a Harris Mastr III machine. I spent Saturday, 2/9/19 reconfiguring, reprogramming, and realigning this machine for Lee (KE4COL) and he transported it to the repeater site and fired it up on Sunday, 2/10/19. There were a few audio drive/distortion issues on […]

Paging System Simulcast Signal Monitoring & Telemetry System Build

Doing the engineering work on a multi-site, simulcast paging system necessitates keeping a check on the operational status of several transmitters which are — by design — geographically spread out all over the place. Anything which can automate some of the process of testing (and, ideally, provide remote, real-time monitoring) is a huge help. Not […]

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