On Tue, 24 May 2011 14:23:20 -0700, 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
wrote:

I have heard from a club member that the repeater is weak and it has
been overrun by one on the coast! He is much farther away than me and
in a much less desirable location, signal wise.

Ok. Might be a sick repeater. That would explain quite a bit.

I have been out of HAM radio for about 15 years so am having to relearn
quite a lot. Had a brain injury, doh!, so lot's of what I knew went bye
bye. Lot's of holes in the memory.

I have a slight idea of what's that's like. I had a triple bypass
operation in 2002. They're not sure what happened but the result is
that my memory around that time is like Swiss cheese. It's a mix of
things that happened that I don't remember, and things I remember that
never happened. Fortunately, things got better after about a year for
me. Hopefully, you'll do as well. Also, my neighbor had a brain
tumor removed. She's fine, but has the same scrambled memory problem.

I gave up ham radio from about 1975 to 1992. I was working designing
radios and working in commercial 2way. The last thing I needed was
ham radio after hours. Welcome back.

I will find out about the repeater
during the next club meeting. Specs and all.

Good idea. I assumed that you had already done that. If the specs on
the repeater (tx power, feed line losses, antenna gain, antenna
height, lat-long) were known on the repeater, I can calculate the
signal strength you should expect at your end.




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