Yesterday I helped some other members of UMARC and Anderson Communications install a new 70cm repeater on top of Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi here in Oxford. We put the repeater hardware in the rack, ran the coax (LMR600), and installed the antenna on the roof. It’s now up and running. The output frequency is 444.350 MHz with a split of 5MHz+ and a tone of 107.2 Hz.
The new repeater will supplement our existing 2m repeater on 147.33 MHz. The club also recently installed an APRS digipeater on top of Bishop Hall on campus.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any 70cm capable transceivers currently. I can listen on my scanner, but that’s it. Hopefully I can remedy that by the end of the year.
Anderson Communications' "tower jocks" carry the antenna to the top of the tower.
Continue reading for more photos of the antenna install and a propogation map.
Repeater antenna being installed on top of the hospital's tower.
The view to the south from the top of the hospital. (The view back toward town is blocked by pine trees.)
A propogation map showing the expected coverage area of the new repeater. (Image courtesy Rick, N5RB)