On-the-Air: N5FDL/R Ripon
We have just installed a new low-level, low-power repeater on the tower at Ripon Fire Headuqarters downtown.
The antenna is a 5/8-wave at approximately 80 feet. Power out the duplexer is approximately 25 watts. Plans call for replacing the whip antenna with a 3-el beam, pointed basically north. The repeater is being replaced with a Motorola commercial model and power output may increase. The directional antenna is necessary to protect a repeater in Los Banos.
We may change the PL tone for this repeater, to avoid occasional interference (not our fault, but we can solve it) to a repeater system in El Dorado County that uses 147.225 as an input with 82.5 PL. They have eight receiver sites and if one receiver drifts, our output looks like an input to their system. Changing our PL (fewer users and their output is 147.825, after all) is an easy fix for this.
Output: 147.210 82.5 PL
Input: 147.810 82.5 PL
Future PL? 114.8
Open to all amateurs!
