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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]