Well almost up! It is at my house in Murphy and will be over at the tower in a few weeks. I am going to run it across the IFR we have at the repeater building first before I hook it up to the antennas at the tower. I will play with it a few days at my house, but have no antenna other than a 3 dB omni which I got from TI. Since I do not have a tower at my house, the repeater just looks into a dummy load. I will haywire up the omni just to see what it sounds like with the two Spectras I have this weekend and then haul it over to the tower next weekend.
Roger >From: Jay Urish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2007/01/31 Wed PM 11:25:45 CST >To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] 900 MHz MSF5000 up and running with CAT200 >controller.... > >So its up??? > >If so YAY! >I need to get my GTX mobile programed.. > >If all the TI's repeaters are at the site, maybe its time to arcom it >and forget it :) > >Roger White wrote: >> >> >> I finally finished wiring in the CAT200 controller in my digital MSF5000 >> tonight. Followed Bob, WA1MIK's directions in the website, the first >> time I fired it up after modifying the codeplug for the external >> controller, it talked to me! Was I excited. I sounded more like a >> teenager than the 63 year old kid I am (today 63 BTW). >> >> Obviously, w/o Bob's many e-mail exchanges, I would not be at this >> point. His instructions on the MSF page to modify the repeater for the >> CAT controller are very easy to follow and he is to be commended along >> with the rest of the repeater-builder hams whose info I have used >> successfully. >> >> Back late last year, I started this journey, not inexperienced in >> repeaters or this RF range (I am nearing retirement as a microwave >> engineer at Raytheon here in Dallas), but i knew absolutely nothing >> about rigs, repeaters, etc. on 900 MHz. I found this website and forum >> thru Yahoo and a few months later, here I am. Looking back over the >> journey, it was not hard at all, even for me. But Bob provided the >> gentle guidance and prodding to get me where I am today. Hopefully, the >> repeater will be up on the TI tower (antenna around 400 ft. high) in mid >> February. >> >> Look for the W5RD/R DPL 432 on 927.1125 MHz if you come thru town. The >> TI club also has repeaters on 145.43, 224.18 and 444.025 MHz on the same >> tower. >> >> Roger W5RD >> > >-- >Jay Urish W5GM >ARRL Life Member Denton County ARRL VEC >N5ERS VP/Trustee > >Monitoring 444.850 PL-88.5 > > Roger White Murphy, Texas
