They paid for your losses and you (your club) accepted it??? I bet that gave them a warm and fuzzy feeling toward hams! Good advice about keeping up with what's happening, though.
--- In [email protected], Jim Brown <w5...@...> wrote: > > 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 <kc8...@...> wrote: > > From: kc8fwd <kc8...@...> > 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 >
