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A record of major repeater events and repairs August 25, 2008 - 442.350 Craney decommissioned. Currently on-air at Sunapee, NH QTH replacing 446.475. May 25, 2007 - 442.350 Craney - Primary repeater back in service with replacement, slightly lower powered, PA. Found in back-up repeater that a dirty pot in the discriminator was causing squelch and audio level problems. May 23, 2007 - 442.350 Craney - found PA amplifier kaput; surprised we were hearing it at all. Back-up repeater pressed into service. March 25, 2007 - Found PTT connection to Echolink transceiver not fully seated, thus Echolink was not working. December 2006 - 145.25 Sunapee disconnected (un-linked) from the UHF network. October 25, 2006 - 447.775 Ossipee - Retuned duplexer to eliminate repeater receiver desense. Adjusted receiver and transmitter frequency. Verified proper antenna operation with return loss bridge. October 24, 2006 - 442.35 Craney - replaced the back-up battery and reset repeater transmit frequency. October 12, 2006 - 447.775 Ossipee - found and replaced a bad jumper cable between repeater and antenna which caused very poor coverage, changed link frequency for better system linking, repositioned and aimed link yagi antenna. There still exists some repeater receive desense noise. August 6, 2006 - 447.675 Kearsarge - a trip to install the repaired cable. Found that the APRS TNC was dead; removed the APRS equipment. June 23, 2006 - 447.775 Loudon (Oak Hill) returned to service with new controller to correct low audio level problem. June 16, 2006 - 447.675 Kearsarge - replaced a cable that was probably causing intermittent transmitter power loss. April 29, 2005 - 145.250 relocated from Washington, NH to Sunapee, NH (NOT the mountain). March 2, 2005 - 442.35 Craney is back up. This GE Mastr II has been running without failure since October 1998. February 26, 2005 - 442.35 Craney is down with a bad low-level transistor in the final amplifier. February 8, 2005 - 2nd Mt. Kearsarge hike in three days to return the link transceiver and DCI filter. Transceiver had lost a bypass electrolytic capacitor on the VCC to the PA module causing it to be highly unstable. February 6, 2005 - The transceiver at 447,675 Kearsarge that links to 442.350 Henniker has failed, as well as the DCI bandpass filter. Both were brought down today for repairs. Thanks for assistance to WA1ZCN. May 3, 2004 - 441.95 reinstalled. Thanks to WA1ZCN and N1XBD. Transmitter still operating into a low-level antenna. April 26, 2004 - 147.30 transferred to the Veterans Memorial Wireless Association, K1JY Trustee, and given club call sign W1VMW. April 8, 2004 - 441.95 Hanover - Removed from service after confirming very lower power output. October 14, 2003 – 441.95 Hanover – confirmed receiver desense caused by a problem with the antenna shared with CVFMA repeater. Moved repeater transmitter to a different, low-level antenna. 447.675 – Kearsarge – installed a DCI filter on the link transceiver to clean up intermod grunge. September 12, 2003 – 449.225 Deerfield received a new PA; power is back up to 50 watts. Primary antenna confirmed to rattle; no immediate availability of a bonded rigger so still running into a minimal antenna. September 6, 2003 – 147.30 Franklin received a new Antenex antenna and Andrew ½” foam transmission line. The tower was stripped of old antennas, mounting hardware, and lines. Mounting hardware was severely rusted. The connector on the antenna was found loose and exposed to the weather. It is suspected that water migrated into the 9913 air dielectric line. Transmitter power measured at 75 watts; receiver sensitivity at 0.15 uv. Summer 2003 – 147.30 Franklin Mastr II repeater was bench tested. A loose solder connection was found between the PA and the low pass filter. The T/R relay was removed for reliability. Spring 2003 – 441.95 Moose continues to experience desense problems. The site is plagued with spurious transmissions. Intermittent reflected power was noticed indicating a transmission line or antenna problem. Both are shared with the CVFMA 2 meter repeater. 441.95 +5 mhz 88.5 PL Moose Mountain was first installed early winter 2001. It was reworked and reinstalled May 2002 when the antenna problem was found. Moose is co-sponsored by the Twin State Radio Club and Dave, WA1ZCN. Spring 2001 – 449.225 Saddleback is experiencing reduced coverage. An antenna or transmission line problem is suspected. Work on the tower is difficult as a bonded climber is required. The repeater is operating into an alternate, minimal antenna system. 447.775 Ossipee - In December 1999, the network again grew by one with the addition of a second 447.775 -5 mhz 85.4 PL from Bennett Hill in Ossippe, NH, ground elevation 1240 feet amsl. This site is using the original Henniker site Icom IC-3010 10 watt repeater and again a NHRC-4 controller. It is diplexed into the 147.03 Repeater Diamond X510 antenna on top of the 120 foot tower courtesy of the Lakes Region Repeater Association. August 6, 1999 - 449.225 Saddleback -5 mhz 88.5 hz PL from Saddleback Mountain in Deerfield, NH, was added to the system. '225 is running a General Elecric Mastr II at 35 watts with a NHRC-4/M2 controller into an Austin antenna 200 feet up on the WENH Channel 11 tower. September 1999 – 442.350 Henniker got a new Antenex 7 dBd gain antenna and mounting bracket. Summer 1998 – 447.675 Mt. Kearsarge was rebuilt utilizing a converted Motorola Micor mobile running 75 watts and a NHRC-4 controller. Summer 1998 – 442.350 Henniker was rebuilt using a converted General Electric Mastr II mobile running 40 watts with the original ACC RC-85 controller. June 1993 – 447.775 Mt. Kearsarge first on the air. Moved to 447.675 on November 8, 1993. June 1990 – 442.35 Henniker first on the air.
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