I'm going to build a completly new 2-meter repeater. It's in a very remote site for the
winter months, so it must be robust. Emergency power is already available, so that's no
concern. 2-meter antenna already in place. In Vermont.
I want it to have:
1) Talking S-meter
2) PL tone
3) Automatic weather station
No phone patch needed (or wanted)
Ok, guys. Here's your dream. What would you set-up with a budget of $3,000?
Hello Kevin.......
A GE M2 station from the sponsor of the repeater-builder web
site < http://www.repeater-builder.com/products>
At a remote site like that, you will want to know about any antenna problems.
I'd make sure that the controller I used supported multiple analog inputs, and
tie two of them to the forward and reverse power measurement voltages.
Look at the photo in this web page
< http://www.bird-electronic.com/products/mproduct.aspx?CID=5&MID=217&SID=80&ID=102 >
You occasionally see the middle one or the bottom one in surplus, and
both have two power measurement sensors, and you can tap across
the DC voltage. The Bird meter is a 30ua meter, so the voltage is small,
and you will have to use a high-impedance measuring method.
One of the middle photo units went on ebay a while back for under $100.
It needed a paint job on the rack panel, and the slugs were missing (there
were two of the aluminum plugs in place).
Telewave makes a similar unit as well as just the power sensors.
Even if you don't add the power monitoring in the beginning, I'd keep it
in the back of my mind as a future addition.
As far as the controller, look at:
NHRC < http://www.nhrc.net/comparison.php>,
Arcom < http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/rc210/rc210.html>,
Link Comm < http://www.linkcomm.com/controllers/about.htm>
CAT Automation < http://www.catauto.com/products.html>
They have a couple of models designed to talk to
the Peet Bros weather stations.
Davis brand weather stations have a serial port option, and
I've seen one interfaced to a dialup modem at a repeater site.
The site owner would dial up from home to look at the data.
I heard later on that someone paralleled off the data cable into
their repeater controller, but I don't know what brand controller.
Look at < http://www.ambientweather.com/mappolicy.html> or
< http://www.weathershop.com>
A web search on "weather station" and "APRS" will turn up
a gazillion hits. Likewise "weather station" and "skywarn".
Some of the hits may actually have something useful as far
as interfacing a weather station to a repeater controller.
I'd love to purchase a turn-key setup if one was available.
Talk to Kevin. He can supply you with a M2 station with
any of the controllers mentioned above in it.
Reply off group if you want...
Naahhh you want the brain trust to beat the idea around.
This way you get reactions to postings.
73
Bruce
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