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2 Meter Repeater:

70 cm repeater:

Repeater Controller - Cat 1000:

LINKING:

Sunday Night Net:

Echo Link:

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 converted GE Master Executive II. Converted by MCC in Florida.

  • The controller is a CAT1000.

  • 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 GE MasterExecutive II ( also converted by MCC, Florida )

  • The transmitter output of 30 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.

Repeater Controller - CAT 1000:

  • The repeaters are controlled with a CAT 1000 repeater controller. The manual (this is BIG - 1.7Mb) describes the functions which can be programmed from a radio with DTMF tones or via telephone X-MODEM and the Windows Editor.
  • At the time of purchase (and to this day - Sept 2007) this was the ONLY repeater controller that can be programmed by a computer through a telephone modem.  The configuration is stored and maintained on a computer.  Thus programming is much easier compared to manually sending DTMF tones from a radio.
  • A telephone is necessary at the repeater site to enable programming via modem.   
  • The only common function that this repeater controller does not support is events on specific days of a month (1st Wednesday, 4th Saturday).  


LINKING:

  • The repeaters can be linked with TouchTone commands on the two meter repeater. The repeaters are automatically linked during NET operation.


Sunday Night Net:

  • LARC has net every Sunday 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.