Pocatello Repeater page
All repeaters in Pocatello are open for general
use. There are three mountain top 2 meter A heads up: there are all sorts of
web pages listing repeaters, one in particular, the "repeaterbook.com"
TOTALLY USELESS !!
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Pocatello Amateur
Radio Club Repeater help page
PARC owns and operates two 2 meter FM voice repeaters, one is a
remote base.. 2 UHF repeaters / Remote Base radios
Kinport and
Scout Mt.
As well as an APRS digipeater and host PV-ares winlink didipeater.
heres (below) are some pictures and more detailed info about our repeaters,
Might I add, our repeaters / remote base radios are very
unique. They are real radio equipment,
not internet radio, they are Radio ,
any skip contacts are RADIO, not internet, and as Radio, they are subject
to the whims of the ionosphere. best practice would be to
LISTEN all the time,
Getting them built , and up on the mountains is just the beginning, there
a lot of maintenance,
antennas break, batteries go dead with age, just paying the rent, putting
on a new ROOF !!
This that and the other. It's Not cheap , Please consider joining our
club.
PARC 147.060mHz Scout Mt.
+600kHz Offset, 100Hz PL .
for more pictures
2008 work party or
install
2002
Located 14 miles south of the intersection of I-15 and Center
street, Exit (69) On the top of Scout Mountain.
It is open to all users, It is solar powered. It has NO
function other than a basic voice repeater.
The output power is about 2 watts to the antenna,
PARC Pays the US Forest Service over $120 a year to rent the mountain top
location, your club membership is important in keeping this radio on the air
Please :
In the WINTER Help conserve battery power,
if possible,
use simplex ..or .36 if your not in simplex range, otherwise feel free to use this repeater. new batteries were installed Sept 2018 |
Homebrewed Talking controller, QST project Feb
1997 issue
(?)
Cavities and charge controller inside shelter.
Talking controller built by Cindy KI7SG, the talker is the green board on
the bottom (center),, Cindy was about 17 years old when she made this.
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this is the temporary antenna on the 06
will need to be fixed in 2021
Before the second set of solar panels were installed Glen K9GP getting ready to install , |
Solar array for charging the batteries, There is NO commercial
power on Scout Mt. This Repeater is 100% Solar Powered...... The top two panels were on site when we moved in. Bottom two panels donated by KØIP. bracket/frame to hold panels made by and installed by K9GP, a big job ! |
END END END of 06 information
147.360mHz repeater / remote base
Mt. Kinport located 6 miles SW of the I-15 Center Street Exit (69) at
7200 feet.
It operates on 147.360
+600kHz offset ... 100Hz Pl required
ITS a standard repeater unless the link is turned on,
This repeater has a 10 meter FM Link on 29.600mhz
29.600mHz is 10 meters.. This is the FM Calling frequencies.
10 meters does have world wide propagation (at times), so if your setting
around, with nothing to do
turn the link on and see if anything is bouncing off the ionosphere .
Call CQ ie CQ CQ CQ this is
(your call) over. remember your signal might be heard
around the world.
try to give your call SLOW and concise enough to be understood, the
propagation MIGHT be perfect. But usually there is a large amount of
fading (QSB) ,
so keep your transmissions short and clear.
Stations is Japan have NO idea where Pocatello is, !!!!
but probably have some idea where Idaho is, if you lose a
station because of fading (QSB) , I suggest you wait maybe 15 seconds and call
that station again ,
using
his call letters and your call letters and ask if he copies now, be quick
,,, chances are, if you cant here him, he cant hear you , keep
it short
and remember the DX is usually talking in english which is a for foreign
language for them.. keep it simple.
How to tell which band a signal is on
if the link is on
a station on 10 meters will cause a Hi & Low Beep, "like" a BEEP BOOP sound..
, at the end of 10 meter transmissions
a 2 meter station will cause a beep beep sound at the end of
a transmission (same tone, twice) ,
Which also indicates the 3 minute time-out timer has been reset.
When a Link is on, any and all traffic
occurring on 2 meters
is transmitted on 10 meters as well as two meters
if someone out there in "radio land" hears you, you'll probably have breaking
station wanting to take advantage of the propagation.
likewise, any traffic on 10 meters is repeated to 2
meters.
The 10 meter link equipment is a GE Master Executive II
mobile radio, running around 60 Watts, to a Dipole antenna,
Codes
010 turns 10 meters ON,
000 turns OFF 10m
other test codes
123 tests your audio.
Press 123, un-key your radio,
repeater says "ready", Key your radio and make a test transmission, when you unkey
it will be play back.
ONCE turned ON, it will stay ON, until its turned off,
Who paid for a new roof, we did, your dues did,
here's
AD7UI, N7FLM, W7EKG 2012 installing a new roof
The APRS will remain in this building
In 2019 we moved to a new building In 2020 we repaired the
roof, repeater had many problems, here's our clubs youngest
member helping out
--our two meter antenna is on the center telephone pole-
KJ7KPP looking a little lost !!
N7FLM and N7TZK working the tar gun's
more pictures at https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMqoz7H5eHFGGgnfXlAalBHmD-w17mxY0UGoA2fLEzUyxZksPrOM654DYEe4JxqaA?key=Q0JJblluWVMxdl9lekFPNmo0UVV1Wk00Nk5iRS1n
442.100 mHz. repeater / remote base.
- Kinport , same location as the 147.36 repeater
This was a gift from K7NEY (sk) to PARC..
it uses Kenwood commercial radios, (first
generation)
the 442 radio is a model TKR-850 this is linked to a Kenwood
TKR-750 VHF radio, which is 'frequency agile" (16 channels)
WE have NOT finished programming the VHF output SO
for now its linked to 146.52, the 2 meter simplex national calling frequency.
If you are talking on 447.1 the input to the repeater, it is repeated to
442.1 the repeater output frequency,, AS WELL as to 146.52..
if there is traffic on 156.52 it is heard on 442.1..
IF you or your club uses these radios, here's a
software download KGP-91D for the second gen radios KGP-66D for the first generation radios. LINK |
Coming Soon
another UHF repeater 448.400,
How to tell which band a signal is on
if the link is on ..
and it is ON all the time unless you press 000 , at which time is should
announce 6 meter link OFF, its programmed to come back on in one hour.
a station on 6 meters will cause a Hi & Low Beep, "like" a BEEP BOOP sound..
, at the end of 6 meter transmissions
a 2 meter station will cause a beep beep sound at the end of
a transmission (same tone, twice) ,
Which also indicates the 3 minute time-out timer has been reset.
When a Link is on, any and all traffic
occurring on 448.400
is transmitted on 6 meters as well as UHF meters
if someone out there in "radio land" hears you, you'll probably have
a breaking
station wanting to take advantage of the propagation.
likewise, any traffic on 6 meters is repeated to UHF
meters. This is a two way radio,,
The 6 meter link equipment is a GE Master Executive II mobile radio, running around 60 Watts, to a whip antenna mounted on the repeater building roof.. TIN, for a ground plain,
A BIT OF HISTORY
The PARC 06 repeater was originally installed on Mt Kinport in 1976, in a building
that was eventually bulldozed about 25 years ago, we were ask to move into a building
that was
at that time owned by the cable TV company.
how many repeaters do you think were in Idaho in 1977 ?
Pocatello must have missed the cut off date for publication of this book.
click the cover picture for the answer ...
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