Antenna fault

[gm0mzb]

Hi all.

The new antenna has a fault, the VSWR is greater than 3:1 so I have reverted back to the co-linear on the latice tower which has a VSWR of 1.5:1 until the main antenna can be checked out.

The repeater still remmains on single antenna working.

Regards
Wullie

[GM0FSV]

thank's for the work you are putting in to keep the repeater up and running wullie,, be better if used by other's more often :bigg

[gm0mzb]

Hi John.

It seems the "sign of the times" at the moment, there is not much activity at all in the Central belt on the radio at all :sad:, even some of the older repeaters such as AY, PA and CS aint getting as much use as they used to. Will have to have a radio drive campain and get all the locals back off Skype and MSN and get them on the radio. :biggrin:

After this antenna issue is resolved then we can maybe look at IRLP as an option if the club wants to go down that route and maybe get some more activity. I have a complete IRLP interface lying here, from when I had the simplex nodes at the old QTH.

[GM1BSG]

Wullie

My own opinion is that we do a "do not pass go, do not look for issues and just put up a new antenna" :D

It needs to be reliable 24/7/365 and the cost of a new antenna will be very small compared to the man hours needed for chasing down, attempting repairs and maybe doing this a few times before we end up back at the start saying a new antenna will be more reliable :frown:

Will ask on Thurs

BR, John

[BILL HARDIE]

just put up a new antenna

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AGREED

BILL

GM6RGY

[gm0hzi]

i agree with John but if we are going to replace the antenna can it be a dedicated 2mtr only job

and my apologies if i knew the antenna was not going to last i would not have donated it

[GM0FSV]

It was decided at the club meeting last night that a new colinear be purchased. This will be done next week from Jaycee's by our treasurer when he visits Bill. Hopefully this will cure all the small problems we have been having with GB3FE.
John

[gm0mzb]

Hi all.

The new antenna was delivered to the club last night, hopefully will be installed over the weekend.


Kind regards

Wullie

[gm0mzb]

Hi all.

The new antenna was installed today.

Thanks to all who helped, sorry I was not there sooner to help:redface:


Signal reports would be appriciated as there has been a lot of work carried out by members of the club in one way or another.

Kind regards

Wullie

[MM0POD]

Hi Willie
I can no longer lift or hear FE in Kilsyth. Also OH has disappeared as well just wonder if I have a problem at this end. Will check all connections later in the week.

[gm0mzb]

Hi Ally


The repeater was swapped over last night at about 10 pm but I forgot to switch on the charger / psu for the repeater so it was running on batteries which went flat in the early hours of the morning.
It was switched back on this morning on the way to work if you can give it another try.


Wullie

[MM0POD]

Back to s7 and i can lift it with five watts again.
Cheers Willie

[mm0gpz]

Hi.

Just a reception report from Blantyre IO75WS.

GB3FE is 57 and can be lifted easily with 5 watts into my collinear at 30 feet.

Although, I've not heard any activity and any CQ calls go unanswered :scratch .

73

Gordon
MM0GPZ

[gm0mzb]

Hi Gordon, thanks for the report.

It seems fairly quiet on the repeater as of late, hopefully will drum up some activity on it soon.


73
Wullie

[gm4vgr]

Hi Wullie had a contact with 2MODXR who is in Glasgow his signal was noisy but Q5 into the repeater copied the repeater all the way into Tilly