We put a repeater in the equipment room right under the water tank about 150 ft above the ground back in the 70's. It is a great environment since the water in the tank is a great heat sink. It assumes the average temp of the outside air (integrates the temp over months at a time) and keeps the air temp in the equipment room very cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The repeater is still operating on this tank.
The only problem we had was when the city decided to sand blast the tank and did not let us know. The dust was over an inch thick on every horizontal part of the repeater, and was inside our shield boxes (tiny holes, but the crap sifted through). They bought us some new circuit board assemblies for the transmitter and receiver and we installed them in the old shielded boxes. We did manage to clean up the duplexer without having to tune it again. Be sure to keep up with any maintenance on the tank to make sure this does not happen to you - 73 - Jim W5ZIT --- On Thu, 8/20/09, kc8fwd <[email protected]> wrote: From: kc8fwd <[email protected]> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Repeaters and Water Towers To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 4:03 PM Hello, Has anyone had experience with repeaters at water tower sites now that homeland security is involved? I would like to hear your experience. Thanks Mike KC8FWD
