Updated pictures of the new repeater after the new TX RX Duplexers got installed.
The new Sky warn Taney County Repeater is on the air and doing great. There are reports of good coverage in the city of Springfield of operators using their base stations. N0NQW has full scale coverage at the Greene Polk County line. An operator in Shell Knob had a good signal into the repeater. An operator on Table Rock Lake using 3 watts was great into the repeater and well as a station 50 miles from the site in Arkansas using 25 watts.
Here is what some of the users of the new repeater are reporting.
James Adkins writes
The new 145.410 (negative offset) with full PL of 136.5 Hz went online north of Branson today! This will be the new N0NWS SkyWarn repeater covering the Branson and surrounding area.
The repeater went on the air with a Vertex “backup” repeater and a duplexer loaned to N0NWS by the Nixa ARC until the new TX RX duplexer and Motorola SLR-5700 repeater arrive courtesy of a grant from ARDEC.
Special thanks to EVERYONE that made financial contributions to purchase the Comprod 872F-70TM antenna and pay for the installation. (About $3000 total)
James, KB0NHX, worked the repeater with his mobile all the way from the site back to his house west of Clever, with a full-scale signal in Clever and all the way up US160 to Nixa. The antenna installation should favor coverage to the south and we hope to get some signal reports out of Branson as well!
Michael, N0NQW, has worked out a deal to get Internet on site to link back to the 145.490 and he hopes that installation will happen before the end of the year.
Bill, KE0YYE TLARC President writes
Great News!!! The long awaited N0NWS Taney Co. repeater is on the air and ready for use. It is on 145.410, negative offset (144.81) with a PL of 136.5 It is located on the MODOT tower near the Hiway 160 and Hiway 248 junction. It is showing excellent coverage, a with station in north Springfield having a full quieting signal from an inside antenna in an apartment.
WeI encourage everyone to dig our their programming software and get this new repeater programmed into their radios and start using it to get a good assessment of the coverage. If anyone needs help with adding to their code plugs or programming their radios, let us know and we will get you the help needed.
The repeater is not currently linked into the rest of the N0NWS system—that will come later.
Just a reminder that this repeater is open for general use except during inclement weather events when the Sky warn nets take priority.
We want to personally thank Michael Blake for all the blood. Sweat and tears he has put into making this important addition a reality and also to David Tarr, who wrote the grant for the large $$$ from the ARDC. We also want to thank all the Club members who donated to this project. Your generosity is sincerely appreciated.
