1992 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

long enough to locate the
offending station.
The control operators
have the responsibility to
"turn off" the repeaters
when it is felt that the
repeaters are being improperly
used. "Improper use"
is subject to each control
operator's judgment as
he/she sees FCC rules and
regulations and how he/she
interprets PARC's policies.
We average about 3-5
shutdowns per year although
the first week of December
saw three "shut downs." One
was accidental on 146.763
where the operator thought
he/she was turning off the
449.425 repeater which had
some electrical problems,
and the other two were on
146.73 when in the judgment
of the control operator(s)
the repeater was being
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improperly used. We are a
"family/technical" repeater
system and we like to see
conversations that do not
contain 4-letter words or
sexual undertones. The
dlgipeater \~s accidentally
turned off the following
week when codes for control
of the autopatch conflicted
with codes for the
repeaters.
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(12-8)John-WB6IQS
located the problem with the
449.425 repeater which was
in the IDer section ••a bad
transistor causing the repeater
to remain keyed-up.
The repeater is now on the
air but minus the IDer so
voice ID of W6NWG will be
required till the IDer board
is repaired by Mike-KC6KCQ
and replaced by Mike later
on during the week.
Jerry-WB6FMT connected
up the new 147.130 autopatch
interface and discovered
that someone forgot
to provide a cammon ground
for the patch cable on the
147.13 repeater. After this
was corrected the 147.13
autopatch worked properly
although it was noted that
the deviation on the 147.130
repeater is set high.
Jerry, John, and Mike spent
a lot of time trying to find
out why the 146.730 autopatch
interface card was
having problems at one of
its op-amp stages. The
cause was not found and
because of the wind and cold
the card was pulled to be
worked on in a wanner
environment. The temperature
was in the low 40's and
dropped steadily until
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