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I hope you enjoy using it and can use it to experiment, play around, enjoy the hobby, connect with others, keep in touch with your family, and learn something new!
Please feel free to use it like it was your own! No need to have any apprehension about playing with it, testing it out, keying it up to see how far out it gets, or calling in for a signal check. The more the merrier! That’s how we all learn!
If you want to make contact and aren’t calling anyone in particular, just key it up and say something like:
”This is [your callsign] monitoring Nashville 575, anyone copy?”
A big thanks to Metro Water who allowed me to donate the equipment to them so they could add it to the 130’ monopole on the hill at Love Circle Park as a public resource.
Base tower elevation is 720 feet above sea level. The antenna is mounted on a 130 foot monopole tower making the antenna elevation 850 feet above sea level.
A heat map of the terrain around the repeater location can be seen here: https://en-us.topographic-map.com/maps/jg7y/Nashville-Davidson/
Installed Equipment:
* 40 watt BridgeComm Systems BCR-40/u repeater with built-in 6-cavity mobile notch duplexer.
* CommScope DB-408-B 9-foot stacked dipole antenna
* ~140 feet of 5/8” Heliax hardline coax
Rack mounted repeater has backup battery power and is enclosed in an air conditioned cabinet.
Enjoy!
-Zach (WQZI220) |
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