I picked up the portable from Frank last weekend. The display on the receiver is faulty so I replaced it with one from my own portable setup. I am going to discontinue my own portable and rework that one into a uhf portable. Mostly for my own interest. Going forward , the club will have the VHF portable repeater.
The portable setup can find uses as a spare if OSR or GBT have issues or at events using the OST settings. In addidition, the Motorola mtr2000 which the club recently purchased can also be used for VE3OST. Franks cavities filters will be changed to match the 146.895/295 pair.
I programed the portable to cover all our repeaters with VE3OST, VE3OSR and VE3GBT. These settings, at this point do not have any tones involved but can be easily changed. The repeater pairs are set at 35 watts transmitter power.
I also added a 4th mode to the transmitter and called it XMTR-FOX ... this mode is for fox hunts, is at 146.565 mhz and has an output of 3 watts. Attached are the hamgadgets setting for changing the controller with different callsigns according to the pair selected or to implement a fox hunt transmitter. Attached are some programming notes using putty.
Hamgadgets
Putty
GBARC Hamgadgets Repeater Settings.pdf (Size: 341.5 KB / Downloads: 4)
The portable setup can find uses as a spare if OSR or GBT have issues or at events using the OST settings. In addidition, the Motorola mtr2000 which the club recently purchased can also be used for VE3OST. Franks cavities filters will be changed to match the 146.895/295 pair.
I programed the portable to cover all our repeaters with VE3OST, VE3OSR and VE3GBT. These settings, at this point do not have any tones involved but can be easily changed. The repeater pairs are set at 35 watts transmitter power.
I also added a 4th mode to the transmitter and called it XMTR-FOX ... this mode is for fox hunts, is at 146.565 mhz and has an output of 3 watts. Attached are the hamgadgets setting for changing the controller with different callsigns according to the pair selected or to implement a fox hunt transmitter. Attached are some programming notes using putty.
Hamgadgets
Putty
GBARC Hamgadgets Repeater Settings.pdf (Size: 341.5 KB / Downloads: 4)