Look for inserted text... At 02:48 PM 02/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Mike Perryman wrote: > > >Yep, > > > >I use a mkIIg turned down as low as it will go, and constantly bring up > >Kevin's Mays Hill repeater (KQ3M I think?) from my QTH in Stafford, VA > >while trying to access our local machine. I also seem to open his machine > >a lot running mobile from around 40 miles South of Wash. - D.C. I have run > >a path profile, and we do not have "line-of-sight", not even close!! Must > >be ducting or something. Frequently I hear his at S-7 or more!! > > > >Sorry to be a pest Kevin.. > > > >Lots of un-explained things in this world, we just try to live with each > >others "contribution". > > > >Mike > >K5JMP > > > >The KQ3M repeater is located near Meyersdale PA on the Allegheny Front >at a place called the Hay's Mill Fire Tower, which I privately own. >It's the 3rd highest repeater in Pennsylvania on 2M at just over 3000 >feet. It runs a coordinated power level of 250 watts into the >duplexer. The antenna is a Sinclair SRL-229 cut for the middle of the >ham band an is 85 feet to the middle of the array. My site is SUPER >QUIET, I really am blessed, and with the tube PA, I have no problems >running a FET preamp in front of the Micor RX, even with only a 4 cavity >WACOM 641, and no additional filtering. <Yup, well within your coordination... we have spoken several times regarding our "mutual" pair over the years.. >I make no bones about it, its a wide area coverage repeater, and it works... >When you invest the time, money, and effort into a great site, you'll >have a repeater that will work beyond the expectations of some. The >repeaters main receiver works so well, even at 250 watts transmitter >power the machine is balanced when using a 50 watt Japanese mobile >radio. The remote sites are down right now because Scott Zimmerman and >I are designing a new voter, and I sold the old one. <Yup, works like a charm. But, if there is any enhancement to conditions at all your machine is "loud and proud" down here. And it "hears" VERY well. I'm not complaining... actually, more like jealous!! That thing rocks!! Most likely the reason we don't give you any problems is that we are only feeding an X-700<-(YUK!) with 65 watts from approx 275 feet above ground. Free space loss kicks our hind-end before we get close to your service area... Unless there is some ducting going on. Then all bets are off, who knows where it will end up. I had a guy in Topeka, KS check in on our machine July 6 of last year. He was using a mobile rig, and a 5/8 wave mag-mount stuck to a filing cabinet in his office. Wicked opening... only QSL card I have ever sent for a repeater contact.. LOL!! I guess I could check what the AMSL height is... but that would be almost like work. <g>! I will see if I can find the old path profile... gotta be here somewhere... I think the last time we spoke was shortly after 9-11... so it's been a while. Seems like I also remember that machine being used to coordinate support for the 9-11 flight that crashed up there. >Believe me Mike, you aren't a pest. If bringing up the machine bothers >you (causes you heterodyne at an uncomfortable level) or other members >of the community locally, I'll PL the KQ3M repeater, or I may choose to >run Anti PL if you folks are encoding for access to your own repeater. >I use 123.0 Hertz, hope you don't... < It's cool just like it is... we run a CTCSS of 79.7 BTW, wasn't KQ3M your father-in-laws (SK) call or something like that. I think I remember you telling me that.. anyway, don't fret about it. But don't be surprised if you hear me giving you a call on your repeater sometime when the conditions are "right".. It has been tempting to do so in the past.. 73 Mike >The site and equipment is detailed on these pages: ><http://www.shol.com/kuggie/ahra/> ><http://www.shol.com/kuggie/ahra/hmft.html> ><http://www.shol.com/kuggie/ahra/hmftinfo.html> ><http://www.qrz.com/kq3m> > >Comments welcome. > >Kevin Custer >Owner of KQ3M > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Perryman Cavell, Mertz & Davis, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consulting Engineers http://www.cmdconsulting.com 7839 Ashton Avenue K5JMP Manassas, VA 20109 USA (703) 392-9090; (703) 392-9559 fax; DC Line (202) 332-0110 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
