The 147.135 repeater has been moved to West Monroe on the Comcast Cable Tower. It should give better handie talkie coverage for skywarn and ARES activities.
I want to thank Comcast for letting us put our repeater antenna on there tower and the repeater itshelf in the main cable control room for climate control and emergency backup power. I want to specially thank David Gore for asking me, And the hard work in convincing them to let us install it.
The repeater is a Motorola MSF-5000 commercial repeater converted for Ham use. It is controlled by a CAT-1000 controller with a LPS-1000 linkport board for linking purposes. Duplexor is a Sinclair Bp-Br 4- 6" cavity set.The link radios are40 watt GE Pheniox mobiles. You can find more info at the Tech page. The old Mastr II was moved to 145.450 for our IRLP repeater (click here)
It has Auto patch with the area plus dailing option. To activate the patch on either machine press star then phone number. During the announcement key the mike once to suppress phone number play back. To deactivate patch press pound. This system also has a speed dail feature. For a speed dail slot contact W5KGT. With a speed dail slot,you can use the reverse autopatch feature . For speed dail operation key up and press seven then slot number. For reverse auotpatch, dail patch phone number which is 318-737-7199, at the beep press 1-1 then the slot number then pound. To receive reverse autopatch key up and press the 1 key and unkey, wait until you hear "call connect" then talk. During autopatch while listening to other person and you hear a beep, key up breifely the exstend listen time. To redail last number key up and press star twice. Maximun autopatch time is five minutes.
Technical Stuff
The 147.135 is part of the N5RD linking system
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Press play for 147.135 Infomation
This Repeater also supports the Skywarn nets from the Shreveport Natonal Weather Service Office. Please monitor during periods of severe weather for updates and Skywarn activations.
Here are some pictures of the Motorola MSF-5000 that I'm converting to replace the Mastr II on 147.135.
Thanks to Robert WA1MIK and the Repeater-Builders.com web site. I used Roberts advice on terminating the wires.
I mounted the 12 positive regulator for the controller to the 5 volt regulator heat sink.
CAT-1000 controller mounted in the wild card box.
Here are the connections for the CAT provided by Robert WA1MIK
New Motorola MSF-5000 Repeater for the 147.135 Mhz. Repeater
