[W5SFA] Proposal to review at the March Meeting

[jack bates]

I don't know if any member could hit the Houston repeater from their
shack.  I don't see the need for a repeater in the Houston site.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:22 PM Gary Baldwin <kf5zrt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings to all.  The following message is information on the Houston
> Repeater site.  Please review Roger's proposal and we can discuss at our
> March meeting.  As a club we need to come to a resolution for this issue.
> I appreciate the input from all that responded with their input over the
> past few weeks.  Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting at Joe's
> Italian in Brenham on the 31st.
>
> 73
>
> Gary - KF5ZRT
>
>
> Club Members,
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>
> We’ve received pretty good input on the discussion about the downtown
> Houston repeater location (and more is welcome).  At this point I’d like to
> put a specific proposal before the club that we can discuss, and hopefully
> vote on at the March meeting.
>
>
>
> To address the question Kat raised about retaining the 146.96 Mhz
> frequency if we move to the new Wallis location,  I contacted our
> coordinator at the Texas VHF/FM Society.   The answer I received was yes –
> we can simply relocate the repeater site and keep our current frequency,
> since it will not interfere with any other repeater using that frequency.
> This simplifies the move quite a bit, since we will be able to use the
> downtown Houston ”cans” and rack at the new location.
>
>
>
> So this is the specific proposal I’d like the club to discuss on March 31:
>
>
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> *Move the downtown Houston repeater location and related equipment to the
> new Wallis site as soon as it is ready, retaining the 146.96 Mhz
> frequency.  Replace the old Icom FR-3000 VHF analog repeater with a DR-2X
> Fusion repeater. *
>
>
>
> I hope to achieve the following goals by making this move:
>
> ·         Better efficiency:  repeater locations will be geographically
> closer together, easily  accessible and more easily monitored
>
> ·         Easier maintenance by having standardized equipment and setup;
> also remote access to diagnose and correct problems without making a house
> call at the repeater site
>
> ·         An improved, overlapping coverage area: If you can’t hit one
> repeater you may be able to reach one of the others.  Also, the Wallis
> location should still easily reach into west and southwest Houston.
>
>
>
> Assuming the club endorses the above, we can then deal with secondary
> things like:
>
> ·         The disposition of the downtown Houston location
>
> ·         Deciding if we still need the Columbus site (Wallis may be able
> to provide equivalent coverage in its place, but we don’t know that yet)
>
> ·         Improving upon our setup by internet linking the repeaters for
> C4FM digital communications to reduce lag, and use Wires-X for remote
> access and linking an analog repeater.
>
> ·         Installing the 146.96 repeater at a temporary location during
> the interim (this will enable us to test internet linking and keep the
> repeater active while we wait for Wallis to become available)
>
>
>
> This is probably one of the bigger decisions the club has made in recent
> years, so comments and feedback from all members is appreciated.  Please
> try to make the club meeting on March 31.  Or if you can’t make it, please
> make your thoughts known on the reflector.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
> Roger N5RWK
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