Hi from the Collins ARC Drive Home Net ---
We're writing to let you know that the Net is moving back to its original repeater at Collins Aerospace in Richardson, effective Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024.
The Collins ARC N5CXX 70 repeater is on 441.875 MHz, Plus Offset, PL=131.8 Hz
The Collins ARC Drive Home Net operates on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month with exceptions in November and December, from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. CT.
We hope you'll join us on a regular basis and participate in ham talk. We have a new repeater in service with twice the power of the old repeater, as well as, a new antenna. The antenna will probably be upgraded in the not too distant future to give us additional gain and coverage.
The new Icom repeater is a dual mode 70cm repeater which allows for FM analog and D-STAR. We anticipate being able to begin testing local coverage using D-STAR, and, hopefully, sometime next year be connected into the world-wide D-STAR network. We'll be announcing on the Drive Home Net and on our Club website (n5cxx.us <>) when we plan to start testing D-STAR. If you're equipped for D-STAR, we hope you'll participate in these tests.
Hope to see you Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
We sincerely thank the Garland Amateur Radio Club for use of their 70cm repeater for the past year for hosting our Net while our repeater and antenna were being replaced. This is an example of the true spirit of amateur radio.
73, the Collins ARC Repeater Team
