2m Repeater Changes

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The 2 meter machine has moved frequencies. It now has a output of 144.920 and input of 147.420 with a 88.5PL (144.92 +2.5MHz offset 88.5PL) giving a wide offset has helped inprove things. Not hearing any desense anymore, I really do not think the duplexers we have are real good with a 600KHz split, likely would be ok at a much lower power but with the machine we got it just isn’t possible and I am not going to change that out. Still much work to do with it so it is not over but today seems to have decent improvement.

Antenna still is only about 10ft off the ground still, but I was able to trigger the machine on the south side of Alexandria (about 8 miles away from the repeater) with a HT in the car so range has improved. Desense don’t seem to be an issue anymore as well, I do think the cans needs a little more tweaking on them to get them better and maybe changing out the antenna. The G7-144 just don’t like the wide space, seems the bandwidth is limited on the G7.

I will continue to tweak on things over the next couple weeks and see how much I can get things to improve. Also do plan on finally getting the allstar controller back hooked up. Also hope to get the antenna a bit higher as well which would also improve the range as well.