I have figured out a sure-fire way to put an end to any future drought: Have a tower rigging crew scheduled to do work on one of the towers. Tomorrow is at least the fifth time I’ve had a crew scheduled to finish taking down a tower at one of the sites. But of course […]
The number of registered DMR users is still growing rapidly. Interest in DMR is definitely not waning. In fact, I’d love to know just how many folks bought themselves their first DMR radio (or were gifted with one) for Christmas. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a surge in the number of new registrations for […]
Now that it has been running so well for almost three months, I made the decision to keep what was built as a “temporary” repeater for the 442.175 DMR machine as the “permanent” machine. It’s doing its thing at about 93 Watts with no problems noted, so — as they say — “If it ain’t […]
Several significant upgrades and enhancements have been made to the East Alabama SKYWARN / KK4ICE Weather Station over the past several days, including the construction and installation of a Stevenson Screen enclosure which increases the accuracy of temperature and humidity readings, and replacement of every sensor/instrument in the system with new ones. The system has […]
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 […]
If you would like to see a ton of real-time status information on the 442.175(+) Gold Hill, AL KK4ICE DMR Repeater, you can do so by just going to the KK4ICE Repeater status and info page on the Brandmeister Network. Just some of the information you can see on that page is a list of […]
As of 5/24/18 the 442.175(+) Gold Hill machine has been changed to full-time DMR operation. It is working fantastic and a bunch of us are enjoying having nice, clear DMR QSO’s using handheld radios to actually go through the repeater direct from distances we were not able to when it was running as an analog […]
I had to run to Shorter, AL this morning to find out why the 442.075(+) repeater was getting stuck in transmit. As it turned out, the link radio (which I had left powered off last site visit because it’s not being used pending some system changes) had gotten turned back on somehow. The squelch circuit […]