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 […]
Just sharing a few photos of the latest G.E./Harris Mastr III station to repeater conversion I’ve done. This one is for a SKYWARN group up in Northeast Alabama and will be going on a recently coordinated VHF frequency pair. […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you are interested in hooking up one of Scott Zimmerman’s incredible STM32_DVM multi-digital mode controllers to a Yaesu Fusion DR-1 or DR-1X repeater, then I have produced a webpage/article and information which was written for you; moreover, if you want to create an interface that is sure to work well and adds several other […]
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 […]
KE4COL’s 145.230 MHz Gold Hill, AL 2-Meter Mastr II repeater developed some issues a while back, and I finally got around to putting it in the rack and troubleshooting it today. He’s been running his Fusion repeater as a backup during that time, but we’ve all been looking forward to getting the Mastr II back […]
I just finished repairing and testing an Icom IC-V8000 mobile transceiver for fellow ham KI4KUT. The speaker had blown in the rig. This is the first time I’ve seen one of these blow a speaker, and they are pretty hard to come by. There was not one available in the United States, so I wound […]