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 […]
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Troubleshooting & Aligning KE4COL 145.230 Mastr II Repeater
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 […]
Oops — Repairing My Repair of a Kenwood IF-232C Serial Port Interface
A friend brought a Kenwood IF-232C Serial Port Interface to me a while back asking for a little assistance with repairing it. He had replaced multiple components in it but it still wasn’t working properly. When hooked up to a Kenwood TS-850 radio and a computer, the computer could not communicate with the radio or […]