We had a bit of an impromptu meeting today talking about Downtown St Pete repeaters and hamwan. We have a bit more of challenging site here as we must use fiberglass antennas and can't really elevate over the roof. We're of course open to other ideas and donations as to what we're planning on doing. Short list of plans: Extend Hamwan to St Pete: The first part of this will be done this week (hopefully) which will be the installation of a 3 GHz link from Tampa. A router's been programmed and ready to be installed once we have a rack in place. Three Sectors will be installed on the lower roof providing 5.9 GHz access to St Pete a bit later. Mounting brackets will need to be installed first. For repeaters we're planing on the following: 220 MHz analog FM 440 MHz DMR 440 MHz analog FM and P25 440 MHz Dstar 900 MHz analog FM and P25 The 440 repeaters will be TX combined and multi-coupled onto separate antennas. Mounting the antennas will be a bit challenging as we'll be having to install a bit of unistrut on a concrete wall about 25' up. This should give us great coverage in the south Pinellas county area from Tiera Verde up to Largo/Clearwater. Expect HT coverage out 10-15 miles, and mobile out to 35-40. Most of the equipment is on hand, but some will need to be purchased. Quite a few parts are left over from the Tampa install. I'd estimate the following costs: 1200 Data Radios/accessories 1150 220 Antenna 600 Unistrut, FL code rated anchors and pipe 700 Grounding parts/wire, lightning arrestors 1200 Coax cable and connectors/kits 550 Controller server --- 5400 Total The good news is most of the repeater hardware, antennas, filters and other parts are going to be donated, or this would be 20k+ to build out. We'll be doing some targeted donations to build out this site as well. 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.