1992 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

MAY' 92
rre say, "use rickshaw,
,,,,st pay coolie ••or make
rickshaw and pull it
yourself. .. (Wonder how far
they can talk on simplex!)
Remember, 147.13 is part of
the PARC family of
repeaters!
I have not been on the
repeaters much lately
because my base rig was
broadcasting on hundreds of
other frequencies at the
same time I was on 146.730
and I have not yet found the
problem. Also I have not
been conducting the
Wednesday evening code net
for the same reason plus we
lost control of the 146.730
time out timer and I can't
turn it off for the code
sessions. The last problem
should be corrected by the
end of April.
73, Stan, W 9 F Q N
30311 Circle R Ln
Valley Center, CA
92082-4806, Ph 749-0276
REPEATERS etc.
W6NWG TrustT: Ron W. WI6B
TECHNICAL John K. WB6IQS
AUTOPATCHES: JerryH. WB6FMT
450 RPTR Mike D. KC6KCQ
KA6UAI RPTR.: Erik T. KA6UAI
SITE OPERAT.: Stan R. W9FQN
WA6IPD RPTR.: Art R. WA6IPD
REPEATER UPDATES:
145.050 & 146.175: Normal.
146.730: down in sensitivity
several DB. Unknown reason.
147.130: audio levels adjusted
downward. Transmitter
now better but autopatch
audio levels were thrown off
by this adjustment.
439.050 PACKET NODE, W6NWG-2
in building but not connected.
Should be on the air
April 3rd.
449.425: old repeater
functioning better but will
be replaced April 3rd with
the new repeater that Mike­
KC6KCQ has just compoeted.
NEWS
All repeaters will
probably we turned off
Sunday, April 3rd, from llam
to about 4pm because of work
being done of the 80' tower.
The time-out timers on
three of our repeaters are
set to kill the repeater if
you talk to long. Why?
Well, besides the FCC
reasons, PARC believes that
you should keep your transmiss
'ions short to allow
more members and emergency
traffic to break into the
conversations during busy
periods of the day. If you
were allowed to talk for
five minutes, then emergency
traffic could be up to five
minutes away from being
recognized if the group did
not FAST KEY. Also with
five amateurs talking for
five minutes each it would
take 20 minutes to get back
to the first person talking
with five in the group.
Doing a RESET during
your conversation IS CHEAT­
ING and SHOULD NOT BE DONE
unless you are on a net running
low power and allow the
repeater to completely "drop
out" after announcing a
"reset." The morning group
on 146.730 is especially bad
with "time outs" and doing
announced and un-announced
RESETS. There are several
ways that PARC can express
its dissatisfaction with
these TIMEOUTS and RESETS.
Calling your attention
to the problem in the SCOPE
possibly will take care of
the problem. If not, then
we have to go to plan #2.
If you use TONE ENCODED
SQUELCH, remember to use the
words "(your call) TONE
ACCESS", and then your TT
codes. This is similar to
the autopatch where you say
"(your call) MOBILE ACCESS
PATCH" , and t hen your TT
telephone codes. Remember
to stay clear of the digits
1, 2, 4, and 7 in all of
your codes. If this is not
done, we will consider
blanking out ALL T-tones
over our repeaters although
your patch codes will reach
the autopatch system even
though no one else can hear
them.
During this past year
the club has bought parts to
make SIX repeaters or their
equivalent. Jerry-WB6FMT
has put together four of
them for the autopatch
project. John-WB6IQS
another one for the 439.05
high speed packet project
and Mike-KC6KCQ is has now
finished the new 449.425
repeater which we really
think is going to be a great
repeater installation for
those of you with the new
dual band HTs or mobile
units.
It really is nice
having such tallented club
members devoting time to
these projects. If you
would like to help with some
of our future projects,
please contact me (W9FQN) to
get your name on the list
for new projects. We have
4-5 things presently on our
POSSIBILITY list. Check
with me to see if we have
something that might be of
interest to you.
PARC usually builds our
repeaters from Motorola
transceivers which are
bought cheaply although
years ago we did buy the
Motorola 146.730 for about
$850. Usually everything is
made from "surplus" equipment
and "hand wired" boards
except for the MFJ packet
TNCs.
The Federal Communications
Commission in San
Pg. 6 EXEC MTG THUR, MAY 14th, 1930Hr, W9FQN QTH SCOPE-MAY'92