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Repeater Update

Yah, hey!

With the very kind, technical assistance of our good friend Andy KC9BKP, the defective power supply in the Motorola VHF MTR-3000 was replaced and is working on Andy's bench. The transmitter was putting out 100 watts, and the receiver had great sensitivity.

I will schedule a day/time this coming weekend with Lee KB9OYP to permit our access to the High School to place the repeater back in service. Echolink should also be working if Murphy doesn't get involved with our latest happiness of having the VHF repeater repaired.

A HUGE shout out to Andy for his quick response, and being able to facilitate our Club's VHF repeater tentatively getting back on the air this coming weekend. Andy takes care of a large county's radio system which includes consoles, backup VHF systems, mobile and portable radios. His entity went to the Statewide Starcom21 P25 digital trunked system, however, it is encrypted in all forms except for the fire departments in his jurisdiction. Andy even likes radio so much that he's active on several repeaters in the northern Illinois area, as he works part-time for a radio repair and sales vendor, and monitors several repeaters. If you hear Andy KC9BKP, give him a shout and thank him for his very kind assistance in this and several other projects he assisted our Technical Team with over the past several years.