http://w4orm.org/menu/wormfest/
I might show up, but it's not going to be at 6am like all the old farts.
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Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
Something was wrong on the interfacing logic for analog lock and reset of the
system and was causing the channels to not switch properly on the quantar
repeater for P25 and Analog. I've disabled most of this advanced
functionality, so now if the controller fails, the analog side will be
offline, not revert to in cabinet repeat mode.
After 10 seconds of local keyup in analog or p25 mode, the station will lock
to that mode for about 5.5 minutes, after which it will revert to mixed mode.
During this lock time, the repeater will not repeat or send from the wireline
the other mode. When the station does lock to a mode, you may hear a brief
drop during the channel change.
The logic used is documented here:
http://wiki.w9cr.net/index.php/Allstar_and_P25_on_Quantar
Thanks,
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Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
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
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Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
