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The KG9ND 147.345 Pl 127.3 backup and running better then ever please stop by.

     Joesproject is designed as a meeting place to exchange ideas, information, tips and general help for amateur radio operators. Please spend time, roaming around and hopefully finding useful information. Please feel free to leave comments on the bulletin board and don't forget the guessbook. Please if you have information or constructive ideas that you would like to share or concerns regarding this site just  e-mail me the information and I'll post if appropriately. This is the official web site of the Repeater Group Of East Central Indiana

  

   The Repeater Group Of East Central Indiana started as a idea in a back room. As friends talking about amateur radio and how it would be good idea to see how a repeater works. So as amateur radio operators do we started reading and asking questions. In late winter of 2003 we started to look at Echo Link for are first repeater project after all that’s a low cost project and would fit in to are budget. Late fall of 2003 we go 40 feet of new tower, Icom IC-2100, $20 homemade antenna Old Dell computer from the trash, and a 15’ of pipe and some coax. Putting the homemade antenna on that 15’ of

 

pipe and Echo station was up and running. In the early winter of 2004 we started talking about putting up a UHF repeater in Richmond, Indiana at the Echo Link site but we found that site is just over 1000 feet above sea level. So we started to look for a better site while talking to the Indiana Repeater Council for coordination. In February 2004  we got our coordination for 441.950 + and then we pickup a Kenwood TKR 850 capable of 45 watts, Sinclair Q3220 duplexer capable of handing 350 watts, repeater cabinet and 160’ of  7/8 Andrew LDF5-50A hardline. In March of 2004 we found a VHF mobile Micor radio that was converted to a repeater capable of 70 watts but it needed some work. That spring KG9ND fix the Micor radio repeater and then we started look forward to summer projects.

 

    The summer of 2004 we worked on saving money and the repeaters. Now we just needed a good site. After looking for so time in the fall of 2004 KG9ND found a site out side of Dolton Indiana with a ground elevation of 1200 above sea level. With help from the amateur radio community we put up a 60’ tower. In January 2005 we started making plans for are first fundraiser. After thinking and talking about what the fundraiser was going to be decided on a booth at the 2005 Dayton Hamvention selling commercial coax sealer and a great digital soundcard interface for working digital modes. So in May we set off for the 2005 Dayton Hamvention the first time anyone in the group has had a booth. We had a lot of fun and became a good fundraiser and best of all found a nice Decibel DB 4048 duplexer for VHF capable of handing 400 watts and a Arcom RC-210 controller.

    Summer 2005 we work on the site and repeaters picking up a  Diamond X500HNA 8.3/11.7 dB gain  and a TX/RX crossband coupler make it possible to use the and hardline and antenna for both repeater. That same summer we upgraded Echo station with a new Diamond X500HNA, Belden 9913 coax and that 40’ tower we got back in fall of 2003. Ok we took are time on using that tower. We also found a VHF GE repeater and a crossband repeater 6 meter to 2 meter both in cabinets. No idea or plans for the repeaters but you never know what’s coming down the road. On September 10, 2005 the repeater group went to the site to put up the Diamond X500HNA and hang some hardline. The UHF repeater went operational on November 12 about 16:30 at the site in Dolton Indiana. We have the VHF repeater  setup up for test at KG9ND in Williamsburg, Indiana plans are to have VHF repeaters up and running by the end of the February 2006. Fall of 2005 we purchased Advanced Receiver Research UHF preamp model P432VDG and a UHF Standard Amplifies RPA5-90 capable 90 Watts that needed some work. We have plans to update the repeaters with this equipment in the spring of 2006. We are talking about adding weather alert, a link to Echo station in Richmond, Indiana and a maybe 220 link or or a 220 repeater just not sure.  

    The Repeater Group Of East Central Indiana would like to put out a special thanks KG9ND, KB9ZJV, WB9ZJS, WB9WGN and KB9WNM.

  

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