I wasn’t sure when I’d be able to do so due to increased physical limitations lately, but with some assistance from a wonderful friend (“Thank you, KD4BO”) I was able to put the temporary replacement DMR repeater setup online at the Gold Hill, AL site yesterday (July 24, 2018.) This is an interesting repeater setup […]
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Gold Hill DMR Repeater – Further Additions and Improvements
The Gold Hill, AL 442.175 MHz DMR Repeater got a few additions and performance improvements today. For starters, I added a combination of an EMR 5-Cavity UHF Preselector and an EMR Preamplifier to the receiver side of things. By doing so, I boosted the receive sensitivity of the repeater by 14.57 dB and at the […]
Gold Hill 442.175 MHz DMR Repeater Back Online After MOSFET Replacement
The Gold Hill, AL 442.175(+) KK4ICE DMR Repeater went back online a little around sunrise on Saturday, June 9th, 2018. Following replacement of the burned-out MOSFET power amplifier chip, the repeater was reinstalled with an external power amplifier connected in order to decrease the load on (and the heat inside) the DR-1X repeater’s transmitter radio. […]