http://flscg.org/2018/04/st-pete-repeaters-are-online/
Over this weekend the FSG site in St Pete came online. We have three UHF
repeaters online at the 400' level in downtown St Petersburg.
The Frequencies are:
443.7625 NXDN (RAN1)
444.3750 Analog and P25 (146.2 PL/293 NAC) and Allstar Node 42033
444.9625 DMR (CC1)
We're still doing some debugging, but everything appears to be working well
thus far. We're running all repeaters on a single antenna and have quite a
bit of loss in our filtering on RX and TX to make this happen. Check the
details on the website for this.
I've done a bit of testing on the 444.3750 and found it to cover up to Erlich
road on the veterans, and am able to use the repeater from inside my house in
St Pete Beach. I'd expect fill in coverage across the bay, with emphasis on
sun city center where we have a null from Tampa now. This should cover all of
Pinellas county from Clearwater to St Pete for HT coverage.
Please give it try. I'll let Ryan talk in about the NXDN and DMR systems, as
they will compliment nicely with the Tampa repeaters. As far as I know FSG
has the only NXDN repeater in St Pete and one of the few in Tampa Bay.
Program them in and give it a try.
73's
--
Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
https://imgur.com/gallery/e06xpiC
Made some progress today working on the combining and duplexing system for St
Pete on UHF. I'm working on the setup for the analog repeater and then will
do some burn in on the system here. We're losing about 3.5 to 4.1 dB in the
combiner/duplexer so worst case we'll be dissipating over 115 watts.
I'm not going to hold out much hope for this to work excellent, but it should
cover St Pete and south Pinellas well. If not it will be good until we can
get another antenna up.
73's
--
Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
