Posted to RG Files section

The minutes of the June 2010 MBARC Repeater Group meeting are now in the RG files section.

The quarterly meeting of the MBARC Repeater Group will be at 7pm at the Bob's Burgers and Brew on the Birch Bay / Lynden Road and I-5 in the back room.  Arrive at 1830 to dine or 1900 for the meeting.

Minutes of the March 15, 2010 meeting of the Repeater Group are up in the files section

As per earlier agreement, the 146.74 repeater on LOOKOUT mountain has been turned off (still on site) and the WC7SO Whatcom County Sheriff's ACS repeater has been installed at the site for an undetermined test period.  The WC7SO repeater is a D-STAR gateway connected repeater operating on "Port C" with a 146.100 Mhz input and 146.700 output.  The system utilizes a 6 mile IP network bridge on the 9cm amateur band to connect the repeater controller on Lookout mountain to the gateway server in the city of Bellingham.

Mt Constitution repeater on .74 is back on as of March 16 thanks to another repair trip made by the MBARC Repeater Group technicians to Orcas Island.  The WC7SO D-STAR repeater is down for maintenance and upgrades and should be up next week.

The MBARC RG repeater on Orcas Island is off the air until the Repeater Group techs can make another trip over to fix it.  If you have not yet paid Repeater Group dues this would be a good time to show your support.  The 146.740 machine on Lookout is still on line (tone = 127.3).

Mt. Constitution 146.740 repeater

The 146.740 repeater at Mt. Constitution is suffering from some type of antenna problem. With the loss of receiver sensitivity and the transmit power below normal, we believe there to be some type of damage to our antenna. We are looking to this problem and hope to have the machine back to normal as soon as possible.