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NOV'91
noticed.
- BK ­
Anita Nye-KB6YHY for letting me
see a copy of the News Letter which
she and Art-KB6YHZ produce for the
Vista Garden Club: THE CRICKET'S
CHIRP.
Tom-KC6ZVI for seeing that W9FQN
received a manual for the DWP-210
printer he bought at the Auction and
to John-WB6IQS for getting me set up
with an Min1 Uninterruptible AC
Power Supply (UPS) system to keep my
giant computer from loosing files
due to power outages or
fluctuations.
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TECHNICAL: John Kuivinen •••••• WB6IQS
- - TRUSTEES - ­
W6NWG/R: Ron Wilhelmy ••• WI6B->
146.730(-) and 449.425(-)
145.05(s)pkt W6NWG-l or PALMAR
KA6UAI/R: Erik Thompson. 147.130(+)
WA6IPD/R: Art Rideout, 146.175(+)
WD6HFR/R: Ron Berger-NE6T,224.900(-)
(All CTCSS(PL) tones are 107.2Hz)
The new autopatches have the
option of "muting· the tones being
sent which is ok for your sending of
telephone numbers since these do not
need to be broadcast over our
repeaters, but it should be noted
that if we do remove the touch tones
(TT) from our repeaters that you
will not be able to use TT encoded
squelch on our repeaters •• bummer.
If you are using TT encoded squelch
or plan to in the future, please
contact W9FQN as soon as possible.
We do have a solution to your
problem.
- BK -
PARC does not encourage members
talking to other stations through
our repeaters who ARE NOT in San
Diego County or Mexico. If you have
a sked with someone, thats ok, but
to just talk to someone out of
county on our repeaters is
discouraged. If they are not in SO
Co., then they are probably bringing
up several other repeaters on our
assigned frequencies trashing the
other repeaters with ·one ways." We
selected our site on Palomar
Mountain so that we
.........
ONLY
covered SO
Co. and we would like to keep it
that way. It is our understanding
that home stations in Palos Verdes
and Cucamunga can hit our repeaters
if they are up high, use beams.
and/or run high power but this only
happens just a few times per year.
- BK ­
Be careful of talking to US
stations with XE (Mexican) prefexes
that ARE IN the USA since they
probably only have NOVICE licenses
and are operating in the US
illegally. USA stations in the US
use ONLY USA calls.
""""" WORK PARTIES """""
"", (you too can have fun) "",
""", (before it snows) """,
~Jerry-WB6FMT and Stan-W9FQN
spent the afternoon putting together
seven IDer boards for various PARC
past and future projects: links
(various). OFing, and autopatch
units. IOer units usually cost $60­
90 each and ours are costing us
about $14 plus construction time: a
real bargain. Chuck-WB6IGP puts
together for us the IOer box of
parts for $12.50 and programs the
chips for us. Chuck is the author
of ABOVE AND BEYOND (VHF and
microwave) which can be found in
each issue of 73 magazine.
- BK ­
~Mike-KC6KCQ worked on the
3,200AHr battery connections in the
battery shed and the generatorbattery
shed so that we can control
all of the emergency batteries.
Jim-KC6PAS and Stan-W9FQN worked
on the battery shed roof •• removing
same and putting on a new plywood
roof high enough that we won't be
bumping our heads anymore. Jim is
finishing up the building on his new
house so with his woodworking skills
things went more rapidly than I
thought it WOUld. The plywood roof
now needs to be covered with metal
sheeting. Eight cement blocks
(14·x14·x2") were laid on part of
the dirt floor and it was decided to
finish the job next trip with ten
more. All property corner stakes
are now properly marked with stakes
and ribbon.
John-WB6IQS. Jerry-WB6FMT. and
Steve-N6UIA worked on the new
autopatch system most of the day.
Most of the problems revolved around
the connections that needed to be
made to the 146.730 repeater for
proper operation: keying lines,
audio lines in and out, and matching
or impedances. It all takes time
with John spending hours building up
a special card for the Motorola
repeater. Paul-N6XUT, Jerry's
father-in-law, came along to see
that Jerry kept busy.
The temporary autopatch antennas
(we presently have path noise) will
be moved to the main tower as soon
as the test period is finished and
on the next two trips we will try to
get the 449.425 repeater connected
up to the new autopatch system.
- BK ­
(10-06)John-WB6IQS worked on the
449.425 repeater on Palomar Mountain
which "just stopped" working •• after
looking at several possibilities it
suddent1y started working •• never
did find the problem. John also
looked into the plug-in card which
needs to be added for the new
autopatch system. The 146.73
repeater also has a problem from
time to time and wants to "hang up·
on us. We wish it would just go bad
so we could fix it! Its so hard to
fix something which is working when
you arrive at the mountain. The
449.425 repeater was placed on
permanent Pl of 107.2 and it also
has a Pl of 107.2 on its output for
those of you who have PL decoders
bui1t into your rigs.
- BK ­
(10-13)Jim-KC6PAS and Mike-KC6KCQ
almost finished the internal bracing
for the battery shed roof while
Stan-W9FQN painted all of the
plywood roof and edges.
SCOPE-NOV'91
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