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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Beep Beep Beep — Quintron Paging System Build and Alignment
Much to the surprise of many, the paging industry is alive, well, and still quite popular. To wit, I finished building, wiring, and aligning this Quintron system over the course of the past few days, which will be installed in the place of an existing system. The existing system is working, but it has been […]
SMD Reflow Oven Build, Testing, and A Few Lessons Learned
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 […]