A case of “Well, that didn’t go quite as planned” KE4COL and I met at the tower site Saturday morning to put the 145.230 Gold Hill machine back on the air and discovered a desense problem. Yes, a bit of cussing ensued, but not at one another — just in general, shared frustration. So […]
Category: G.E. Mastr II
Update on KE4COL Repeater and Other Little News Tidbits
Just a little update on what’s happening with the KE4COL 145.230 Gold HIll repeater repairs/testing, and a few other cool things going on lately. KE4COL Mastr II UHF Appears Good To Go Back Into Service The 145.230(+)123.0 VHF Mastr II continues to behave well here in the lab since I serviced and realigned it […]
Troubleshooting & Aligning KE4COL 145.230 Mastr II Repeater
Last Friday, we pulled KE4COL’s Mastr II 2-Meter repeater out of service due to some intermittent “crashes” on COS drops, strange noises, etc. which had been occurring for a while. I brought it here to the lab and finally got around to going through it today. I found and addressed a few issues and it […]
Mastr II Back In Operation On KE4COL 145.230(-) Gold Hill Repeater
As of about 5 a.m. today (April 21, 2018) the KE4COL 145.230(-) 123.0 Repeater at Gold Hill, AL is operating on the G.E. Mastr II again. The Yaesu Fusion repeater is back to serving as an emergency/standby repeater in case of problems with any of our repeaters. With nasty weather on tap for the next […]
GMRS G.E. Mastr II Repeater Build and Alignment for K6JFS
It took me a while to gather the hardware and get everything ready to build this GMRS repeater for K6JFS, but I finally got around to getting it done this morning. It actually went very smoothly, expecially considering the fact I had to completely replace the original PLL type exciter with a non-PLL type and […]
WA4QHN 444.100 Salem, AL Repeater Repaired and Back Online
The 444.100(+) WA4QHN Salem, AL repeater recently started developing serious sensitivity problems, so the owner and I pulled it out of service and brought it here to my QTH so that I could troubleshoot the repeater and duplexers and get it back in shape. As soon as I hooked the repeater up here in the […]