145.27 repeater? is back on the air. Not perfect. We are going to replace a funky coax cable from the transmitter to the duplexer as soon as we make it and test it. Mark at Radio shack supplied us with RG-233 double shielded coax.? We have measured 4.4 db loss (50W in >18W out) in the duplexers which we estimate to be 25 years old.
We need to start raising money for new duplexers. Harold has tuned and re-tuned the duplexers twice in the last 6 months. We have no history on them, and sending them out for refurbishment just shipping can cost over $250 and refurbishment is an unknown till be physically get them to Alabama. There is a company who specializes in buy sell refurbish.?????? BTW 443.325 is just fine and alive on K-LINK...
NOW FOR a REAL TREAT-
????????????????????????????????????????????? The ALLSTAR LINK IS WORKING!!!
We are temporarly connected to the Blind Hams talk group, DMR,? D-star Reflector, and Allstar node... all bridged together. We will be "testing" it out for the weekend maybe longer...?
Allstar 50631, DMR Brandmeister 31679, and D-STAR DCS679A.This includes the Blind Hams Digital net, held twice weekly,Thursdays
at 9:00 PM Eastern (8pm local), and Saturdays at 10:00 AM Eastern (9am local). The Allstar and DSTAR bridges to DMR are
provided by KE4DYI. As this is a world-wide, multi-mode bridge, this is not a regional talk group. The servers and equipment for bridging are located in the NYC area.
It is also streaming at:
There is about a 3 second delay if you listen to broadcastify on the internet or your smart phone..
A Local group can also be followed on Facebook - "Visually Inconvenienced Hams"? and "520 crew" ?
Larry Macionski