{"id":4939,"date":"2022-04-05T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k6bj.org\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2022-04-05T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:59:35","slug":"fixing-the-repeater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/4939","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the Repeater"},"content":{"rendered":"
Seriously though,\u00a0 the plight of the few hard working guys and gals that go up every week the grease the wheels on the K6BJ repeater:<\/div>\n
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Remember that there are many phases to building repeaters:<\/p>\n

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  1. The decision that another repeater would be a good thing.<\/li>\n
  2. Acquiring parts.<\/li>\n
  3. Mounting all the parts in an open workshop rack.<\/li>\n
  4. Locating smaller parts since not everything fits.<\/li>\n
  5. Making the assembly of parts work as a unified whole.<\/li>\n
  6. Rebuilding parts or locating replacement parts since you don’t discover that everything doesn’t work together until you power it up.<\/li>\n
  7. Making the new collection of parts work as a unified whole.<\/li>\n
  8. Spending hours and hours programming and reprogramming the controller to get it “just right”.<\/li>\n
  9. Beating the final gremlins into submission, including the intermittent that only shows up at 4am on fifth Sundays during a full moon.<\/li>\n
  10. Finding a permanent home for the new repeater, and envying those that get their sites for free.<\/li>\n
  11. Taking the wife out to dinner a few times to make up for the evenings you spent in the workshop.<\/li>\n
  12. Preparing the site (backup battery bank (if needed), tower-mounted antenna, feed-line, etc).<\/li>\n
  13. Installing the repeater, item by item, into the permanent cabinet rack.<\/li>\n
  14. Making longer cables to replace the ones that no longer reach.<\/li>\n
  15. Making everything that broke works again.<\/li>\n
  16. Transporting the cabinet to the repeater site (which may require borrowing a 4×4 vehicle).<\/li>\n
  17. Fixing what broke during transport, including retuning the duplexer.<\/li>\n
  18. Spending several evenings and weekends beating the last gremlins into submission.<\/li>\n
  19. Taking the wife out to dinner a few times to make up for the evenings and weekends you spent at the repeater site.<\/li>\n
  20. Formal announcement that the repeater is on-line and available.<\/li>\n
  21. Locating and fixing the intermittent that only shows up at 4am on fifth Sundays during a full moon.<\/li>\n
  22. Listening to the users whine that they can’t “get in” with their fleapowerd HTs from 100 miles away.<\/li>\n
  23. Listening to the jammers.<\/li>\n
  24. Listening to the users whine about the jammers.<\/li>\n
  25. Listening to the other users whine about the users that whine about the jammers.<\/li>\n
  26. Taking the wife out to dinner a few times to make up for the evenings and weekends you spent at the repeater site.<\/li>\n
  27. After a few years deciding that the user-caused hassles aren’t worth it, and selling the repeater to some other ham for about one-tenth of the money that you have into it, and realizing that the hundreds of hours you spent on it are worth zero.<\/li>\n
  28. Becoming a repeater user yourself for a few years.<\/li>\n
  29. Realizing that having another repeater would be a good thing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And, so it begins again….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Seriously though,\u00a0 the plight of the few hard working guys and gals that go up every week the grease the wheels on the K6BJ repeater: Remember that there are many phases to building repeaters: The decision that another repeater would …<\/p>\n

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