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March 2007
Well,
it finally happened !! The Kenwood repeater is now
installed,
replacing the old
G.E. that has provided service for many years. I have been thinking
about it for quite
a few months now and, personally, I'm glad it's over. Below are a
couple of pictures
of the event, and click <here> to
read the synopsis of the
whole thing as it unfolded
since Gary turned over the Kenwood TS-820 Repeater over to the
BART. I didn't tell
it all because I wouldn't have anything to talk about at the breakfast
meetings.
Gary - N1DHS, Dave - K7IOU, myself - WD7F and Fred - WA0RTO made the trip
to the
Lemmon and installed the repeater in the same location as the old G.E.
Fred is a U.S.
Forestry Service communications guru and without his help it would not
have been
possible. Thanks, Fred ! It seems to be working pretty
good, but that illusive crack-
ling is still there when the input signal is a little weak. The new
Motorola GM-300 link
that we installed Saturday seems to be keeping the AGC wrapped tight
enough that
the crackling is less when the input to the repeater is via the 94 or the
74 machines.
There was only one snag. When the pictures of the event are posted,
you can see
that there was enough ICE on the dirt road up to the Lemmon site that
Gary's pretty
Toyota Tundra (no 4-wheel drive) couldn't make it. So, we unloaded
the stuff into
Fred's company truck and we made it the rest of the way up the trail to
the site.
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January 2007
A
project is underway to replace the 448.350 repeater on Mt. Lemon with
another
more modern repeater, specifically a Kenwood TKR-820 that Gary (N1DHS) has
had in service as 449.800 for several years. Gary re-programmed
the repeater, and
and it is in the possession of KD7TXO and WD7F for further tweaking. The
repeater
has been modified to allow operation on 12 VDC as well as 115
VAC and prevent the
repeater ID and announcements
to be linked to the 224.74 and 146.94 systems. It
is operational on 448.350 at KD7TXO's QTH and has been encorporated into
the
BART system. As soon as weather and schedule allows, the repeater
will be moved
to Mt. Lemon.
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28 August 2006
We have
a user group established on the Yahoo. If you'd like
to keep up with BART activities and discussion click below.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bart_users/
16 March 2006
The
146.94 (110.9) and 224.74 (136.5) repeaters are linked to the 448.350 (107.2)
Mt. Lemon
repeater. N1DHS, Gary, has allowed us to complete the link.
Thanks
to WE7H, we
have an operational link radio, an ICOM-2720H, which Ed donated
to the cause. There are
many minor things to be ironed out, such as squelch tails
and audio levels, but it seems to be
working pretty good just out of the box. This
link will expand our coverage
greatly over a large portion of Arizona.
Thanks again, Gary Matthews - N1DHS, for the use of your machine.
The MSR-2000
146.94 repeater is now linked to the recently completed &
converted
Micor
224.74 machine. Every effort is being made to insure that audio
quality is
maintained and it will not be apparent which repeater is the source.
DTMF access
to the Voice over Internet (IRLP/ECHOLINK/WIRES) modes is the same as the
146.94 machine.
17 September 2005
BART JOINS
BART has joined the Amateur
Radio Council of Arizona.
Dave, K7IOU will be serving as the initial President of BART.
The
rules of BART will be the same:
Dues: None
Requirements: None
Fund Source: Donations only
You are invited to attend our informal BART Meeting:
8:00 AM, Saturday, Jerry Bobs, 5028 E. Broadway, Tucson
More to follow. de 
16 May 2005
Down
Comes W0LTL's Tower !
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August 2004
Would you
believe that an "Up Front" article complete with a picture
was published in the Sept 04 issue of QST.
Dave, K7IOU, submitted
the article, however, QST saw fit to reduce the size and heavily edit
it.
The article was published in its entirety in the November 2004 issue of
World Radio. Sorry that all the contributors weren't at the party so
they
could be in the picture. Some live just a little far
away to have been
at the party. Click the article to see an enlarged picture and the calls
of those on the certificate plus the World Radio article complete.
10 January 2004
In January 2004,
Twenty members of the revised BART group
purchased a Motorola MSR-2000 repeater, CAT 250 controller,
RLS-1000 switch along with other items and presented
to me to
replace the tired old machine in use at the time.
We're talking
major SURPRISE here! I consider the repeater to belong to
a
Click HERE to read all about
the MSR-2000 conversion!
Click HERE to read
about the 220 Micor Repeater conversion!
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HISTORY:
BART was originally organized by
Hobart Paine, K7CC. The original
group consisted of over 150 members. Bart, K7CC, remains as well
as Don Brumbaugh, N7AEU. I will attempt to locate a roster of
the
BART group and post it and I'll see if I can find more members around.
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