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New repeater on top of hospital

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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.

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.

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Luke and Liam Update

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Last week was busy and short. We had to come home Thursday afternoon for my brother’s rehearsal dinner. His wedding was yesterday. I’ll post some photos as soon as I get around to processing them.

Last weekend Liam made his first trip to Belmont (our hometown). He did great, despite the fact he was awake the entire time, which is a little out of character for him.

Luke had his first swimming lesson at the Turner Center on campus last Tuesday. He was a little timid at first, but he really enjoyed it. They just splashed around to get used to the water. He was supposed to have another lesson Thursday, but we had to miss it to make it to Brandon’s rehearsal dinner on time. I’m interested to see what they do this time. Both Luke and I are looking forward to it. I’ll try to get some pictures at some point.

The presidential debate is in Oxford Friday night. Several streets near campus are shut down. Luke and I are going for a walk near the Ford Center this afternoon, and I’m going to see if I can take some pictures. It’s quite an impressive set up. Hopefully I don’t get tackled by the Secret Service.

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