March 1, 2014 Moved the 145.130 Repeater to its new home.
Our Site
The old building on the left, new on the right.
SERC 2 M antenna
On the right just about half way up this photo.
440 MHz Antenna
The two verticals on the right above and below the circular antennas are SERC's 440 MHz antennas. Currently using the lower one for our 444.70 repeater.
Old Building
We shared this building with a few FM radio stations.
Old Building
Neat copper pipe coax... handles lots of power with very low loss.
Bill K4JBV
Old Building: SERC's coax
here is our coax exiting the old building. This was moved to the new building.
John N3LWR
Wrangling coax.
Jim WA9TIR
Moving the coax out of the old building.
Explanations
Eddie K4JP explaining the mysteries of repeater sites to john N4LWR.
Here's what has to be moved...
Bill K4JBV pointing out the red coax cables that has to be moved to Den W2DEN and Rich K9RWH.
Coax exiting old building
The red coax is ours with the yellow wires the grounding straps. This was all removed.
Obstacles
Just some of the hazards we had to watch out for.
Coax on the towers.
The two disconnected coaxial cables are SERCS heading to the old tower. They are loose so we could maneuver them from the old building to the new.
Moving coax
Rich K9RWH left and Den W2DEN right are moving the coax from the old building on the left toward the new building on the right..
Safety First!
Rich K9RWH getting his climbing harness on while Bill K4FLV assists.
Refastening the Coax.
Rich K9RWH up the tower refastening the coax after it has been moved.
Refasteneing Coax.
The SERC coax are the two with the white paint on the bottom and the one to their right.
Angel Bill
The sun halos Bill K4FLV as he wrangles the coax into the new building.
Push it through
Rich K9RWH left assists Bil K4FLV getting the coax into the building and the grounds wired up.
Coax Entry: New Building
Here is whee the coax enters the new building.
Coax Entry: New Building
New Building
There is a lot of hardware stored in the new building, here is a roll of Coax.
New Building.
More coax.
Coax Entry
Here are the holes before the coax was pushed through.
Yea! Coax is here.
Ready to be trimmed.
Jim WA9TIR triming.
The coax is trimmed with a saw.
Den W2DEN Helping.
Moving the repeater
Eddie K4JP getting the repeater ready to move.
Here it comes
Bill K4FLV and John N4LWR bringing the equipment to the new building.
Back up repeater
In the new building
Wiring it up
Eddie K4JP getting the wires just right!
This thingy goes here.
John N4LWR, Eddie K4JP listen toe Rich K9RWH explaining just how it should be.
N connectors are fun
Jim WA9TIR works on a new n connector while Eddie K4JP helps.
Where did it go.
An n connector center pin dropped and was never found. Eddie K4JP thinks he can find it!
SERC Repeater Stack
2M on top, 440 below in their new home.
Ready to go
the coax and power hooked up, ready to test.
Eddie K4JP
Bombs away
A roar brought us all outside to catch FIFI a B-29 passing overhead.