When I was in college and had a part time job in the summer for a local radio station, we did many remotes using the 150 Mhz range. We had Marti broadcast equipment.
Being in northern Wisconsin, it was challenging at times to go out to a resort in the Nicolet National forest and try to get a good signal back to the station. I'll never forget the day that I had to climb up an evergreen tree and hang the antenna up around 75 feet before the station got a good signal. The station manager told me later that "if you didn't do that remote, you wouldn't be working here anymore". BTW, that's how I got into ham radio. Don, KD9PT ----- Original Message ----- From: Kris Kirby To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Question on portable repeaters On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, WA3GIN wrote: > Yeah, Much lest costly to build a suitcase salellite receiver... I've suggested this a few times to a local group before a large service event, but priorities get juggled every year and it falls off the mental map. Or the voter shelf saves the repeater from being rained on by functioning as a pail. If you've got a voter already set up and don't need the second receiver or have a tertiary input, setup an omnidirectional antenna at the repeater site and send audio back over a link frequency with a beam. The commercial FM guys have been doing this for years and calling it a "remote". -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
