Author Archives: Timothy Szymanski

Hi all, It looks like the new DR2x repeater is having transmitting issues. As of noon, we the took the DR2x off-air for maintenance and in place put back the Vertex repeater.  Thank you

The following work was done on the repeater this week. The current hustler 2m antenna was taken down and connections were tightened and thread-locked and put back up onto the mast. Other work included upgrading the echolink server to a … Read More »

Due to a noise observed on the repeater input for the the past couple of days, the group went up today to check on things. We powered cycled our rack and unfortunately ran into an echolink issues again, not passing … Read More »

Special Event Station N3T – Celebrating Supercomputing + Ham Radio with W9ANL & SC23 SCinet The club was issued a 1×1 callsign of N3T for Nov 10-17 to celebrate supercomputing.org’s SC23 event along with ANL’s entry into the exascale supercomputing … Read More »

Today the radio group installed the new Hustler G7 after assembling the antenna last week, and testing it upon installation. The new antenna was purchased from Bruce KA9H new in the box. We had a great time assembling, testing, and … Read More »

Today was a well spent lunch. After taking the antenna down countless times, we put up the original Hustler G7 antenna. We discovered the performance of the Diamond antenna was well below what we had wanted to see and the … Read More »

Beyond belief and an unexpected turn for the worse, after repairing the weather-worn connector on the feedline at the antenna. We still find the repeater system not functioning correctly. After today’s investigation we found the antenna to be at fault. … Read More »

These are the previous photos of the connector we took down after water penetrated the connector, oxidizing the outer shell. A panel mounted N-connector was used to terminate the heliax and a small jumper finally connected the heliax to the … Read More »

Repeater maintenance is currently ongoing due to feedline connector repairs. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Today’s work on the repeater included using some digital signal processing (DSP) for the Echolink audio to try and make the audio clarity and levels the same. As of lunch time, it looks like we nailed it. I look forward … Read More »