In other news John KC9EEQ has been busy building a new web page for us. The previous one was rather static and lacking content so he has been working hard to make this one more interactive. I have been posting photos of some of the sites and coverage maps. We will be adding technical articles about the system as well as some history and background on the network. Please register with your call sign or name and poke around. Let me or John know if you have any suggestions or comments on the site. If you have any old photos, news letters or stories from our early days post them on the site or forward them to me. We hope to make this site a ham community page and a neat place to go for info, chat with friends etc. That's all for now, hope to see you at the WARAC swap fest on Saturday!
Emil N9FBF
FM38 Repeater Update
Vladamier - 2005-01-07 02:52 - (26417 Reads)
Hi Gang, been a while since I've sent any repeater updates. 2004 was a busy year with work and house projects taking precedence over repeater adventures. Not that we didn't do a few things such as;
Hopefully we will get a few more things done this year such as;
- Built and installed a new repeater in Baraboo. Took a few trips to iron out a failed preamp and other bugs but it is working great now.
- Installed a new link beam and 250' of 7/8 line at our North receive site.
- Replaced/upgraded the repeater antenna at Fond du Lac. (Pictures on FM38.org)
- Various service calls by myself, Bob N9GMT and Dave KA9FUR to fix busted/melted/worn out items
Hopefully we will get a few more things done this year such as;
- Build and install a new repeater in Rockford, IL
- Move the Princeton 444.950 system from it's current 70 ft.ham tower to a 400 ft. commercial site north of Ripon.
- Add a voter and remote receive site to the Baraboo 444.500 system.
- Upgrade several Milwaukee remote receive sites with cans and preamps.
- Install a new amplifier at the Fond du Lac 444.600 system.
- Lots more behind the scenes re vamping projects.
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