13 June 2010

Not much

Not much to report. The PX-777 gets out well, even in areas where other 5w mobile stations are having problems.
Our radio club has voted to set up a digipeater at the club house. We have a good location which covers an area known to be difficult to other digipeaters. We are going to purchase the Argent Data Tracker2 which will, as a stand-alone unit, perform as a digipeater, as a weather station (we have an Ultimeter 2100) and telemetry. With a PC it will do anything else you can do using KISS TNC.
The radio will be a converted FM92 commercial VHF at 25w. The antenna is a j-pole until we can get the Comet high gain mounted on the tower.