K1JY's Ham Radio Page

I seem to collect transmitter systems.  My hamming activities include building, owning and maintaining voice repeaters.

I spend over $1100 annually on site rent, liability insurance, and electricity for the various repeater sites.  This does not include equipment repair, replacement, or improvements.  Support from you the user, in any amount, would be greatly appreciated.  It helps let me know that the effort and cost to provide these repeaters for the use of the amateur community is appreciated.  Thank you.

I maintain six linked repeaters:  442.350 on Craney Hill in Henniker, 447.675 Mt. Kearsarge  (Warner), 447.775 on Oak Hill in Loudon, 449.225 on Saddleback Mountain in Deerfield, 447.775 on Bennett Hill in Ossipee, NH, and 441.95 on Moose Mountain in Hanover.  Linking of the repeaters is done using Henniker as the hub with all other repeaters running an additional link transceiver working into Henniker as users.  The repeater controller on 442.350 is a 1991 vintage ACC RC-85 with synthesized voice.  The other UHF repeaters all use NHRC-4 linking controllers. 

The K1JY repeater system can be accessed via Echolink - K1JY-R, Echolink Node 1118. 

145.250 and 446.475 in Sunapee are both stand-alone.

In addition, I am trustee of the W1VMW 147.30 Franklin, NH repeater, and along with Tom, N1SKZ, maintain the Contoocook Valley Radio Club’s K1BKE 146.895 Henniker, NH repeater.

Thanks go to Jim, W1PID and Mark, W1DDI for their financial support, and to Jim, N1XBD for his invaluable antenna work help.  Thanks to Joel, WA1ZYX, for opening the door to Mt. Kearsarge, and to Cal, WA1WOK to helping keep it there. Thanks to Frank, N1DQB and LRRA for access to the Ossipee site.  Thanks to Dave, WA1ZCN, and Twin State Radio Club for access and help at Moose Mtn, and to CVFMA for sharing an antenna.

If you consider using a Diamond antenna in a location subject to wind and weather, contact me and I'll give you an easy modification to make to the mount so that it will withstand the weather.