The club repeater has been replaced with two new Kenwood units.

2 Meter Repeater:

70 cm repeater:

Repeater Controller - TBD:

LINKING:

Thursday  Night Net:

Repeater Controller Commands:

2 Meter Repeater:

This repeater covers a wide area of Northern Colorado.

Operational detail:

• Our two meter repeater is on a frequency of 147.270 + MHz

• This repeater has Autopatch (reserved for members)

• The repeater has 100 Hz. CTCSS .

• The transmitter always has the 100 Hz. present, to help in your rejection of intermod and interference.

• At the present time, the receiver is carrier operated with no need for 100 Hz on your signal. The CTCSS is activated when there is interference on the input.

• Repeater ID is WØENO.

Technical detail:

• The Transmitter and Receiver are a Kenwood TKR-750, 50 watts

• BASE STATION FEATURES
  • 16 Channel
  • Simplex or Full Duplex Operation
  • Antenna Switch For Simplex/Single Antenna Operation
  • Priority Scan
  • Remote Control Inputs
  • 7-Segment 2-Character Channel & Scan LED
  • 2 Character Alphanumeric Channel Designator
  • Power/Transmit/Busy LED Indicators
  • 6 Lighted PF Keys
  • Local Takeover/Remote PF Key
  • Channel Up/Down PF Keys
  • Volume Control Knob
  • Courtesy Tone
  • Front Microphone Jack
  • Front Panel Speaker
  • Voice Encryption Port
  GENERAL
  • 19" Rack Mount Design
  • Primary DC Input Connector
  • Auto-Switched Back-up DC Input Connector
  • Backup Battery Warning/Operation Tones
  • Rear External Speaker Output (4 Watts Audio)
  • Rear Test-Speaker-AUX Connector (15-Pin)
  • Built-in Cooling Fan (temperature or continuous)
  • Programmable AUX Input/Output Functions
  • BCD Remote Channel Selection (4 lines)
  • Toggle or Momentary Operation on AUX Input Ports
  • Pre-Emphasis On/Off Control (at TA AUX Input)
  • DSP Processed QT/DQT
  • DSP Processed Companded Audio
  • QT/DQT Squelch-Tail Elimination
  • Beep Tones for Control,Warning, Alert & Power On
  • Electronic Serial Number (ESN)
  • Embedded Message with Password Protection
  • High Stability Oscillators (TCXO)
  • Windows® 98/2000/Me/XP PC programming & tuning
  • Flash Memory
  

• DC power is supplied by an Astron power supply and TWO large golf-cart batteries.

• The six cavity duplexer and four bay antenna are by DB-Products.

70 cm Repeater:

Operational detail:

• on a frequency of 448.800 (-) MHz.

• The repeater has a CTCSS of 88.5 Hz which is always present on the transmitted signal, to help in your rejection of intermod and interference. The CTCSS is only activated when there is an interfering signal on the input.

• Repeater ID is WØENO.

Technical detail:

• Our 70 cm. repeater is a Kenwood TKR-850, 40 watts.  Similiar list of features as the 2m box.

• The transmitter output of 40 watts is fed through a DB-Products six cavity duplexer into a Cushcraft AFM-44DA antenna.

• This system is at the same location as our two meter repeater.

LINKING:

• The repeaters can be linked with TouchTone commands on the two meter repeater.

Thursday Night Net:

• LARC has net every Thursday evening at 8PM local time (Mountain Time Zone). Everyone is welcome to check in.
• Let it be known if you would like to be Net Control a time or two.

EchoLink:

Repeater Controller Commands:

Here is a useful link for technical details about building a repeater.