We accomplished much today even with the wind gusting to 50 mph on the roof. We didn't get the computer interfacing done just yet, but we did get all 5 repeaters terminated with 1/2 heliax from the lightning arrestors in the shelter. We installed 4 coax grounds bonding the coax to the "birdcage". Of most interest the group will be the improvements made to the 443.525 with the addition of a preamplifier. This is a receiver amplifier that sits post the receiver side of the duplexer and improves the sensitivity of the receiver. We measured the receiver sensitivity before adding the pre-amp and found it was -119.5 dBm for 12dB of signal/noise, which is quite good. With the pre-amp inline we measured the sensitivity as -126.5, and improvement of about 7dB. This is quite frankly amazing as the thermal noise in a 25 kHz channel is -130 dBm, so we're 4db more than the noise for a usable signal. You will see this as much improved signals on HT's and lower power/further out mobiles. We're ready once we get internet fiber in place for linking and installing the data radios. Please get on and give it a try. 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.