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435 Summer 2016 Changes
I’ve been talking to several 435ers, and even some long time listeners, about how 435 can be improved. Here is a summary of the discussions. Some decisions have been made and some are still being discussed. http://your435.com/status You… Read More ›
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Cuddeback Trip Food Plan
The 449.500 and 147.435 fifth annual Mohave desert trip is this Thursday through Sunday March 17-20. Fireworks are Saturday night. Ride to Randsburg for lunch is Saturday around Noon. Optional Group Food Plan For those that want to pitch in for… Read More ›
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435 Teamspeak Brief Planned Downtime
Tomorrow morning (Friday, March 4, 2016 PST) the 435 staff will be performing server maintenance in the 435 datacenter. Expect a brief outage while our Teamspeak services are being restarted to apply a software upgrade. This outage will not affect… Read More ›
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Time to leave Santiago
When the tower is this color, it’s time to get off the mountain quick!
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Hunting Intermod Issues
We spent the last two Thursdays on the hill hunting RF intermodulation mixes that 435 is part of. On Aug 6th, 2015, we found the commercial VHF system that is transmitting the 3-way mix affecting a commercial system. We did field… Read More ›
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RX Antenna Fixed
On Friday August 31, 2015, the tower climbers fixed our RX antenna at the top of the tower (120′) by adding a metal top stand-off and realigning the bays toward LA and San Diego. Commscope confirmed this is proper engineering for… Read More ›
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Our Receive antenna is fucked up
Sometime after the last hill visit on May 13, the 435 RX antenna became snagged on a newly installed antenna. I’m working with the shelter owner to fix this. We will probably lower the RX antenna slightly and install a top… Read More ›
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Roger Bly on his throne
Roger Bly on his throne at the 435 repeater site.
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Repeater maintenance trip July 9, 2015.
Worked on improving the 900 MHz receive Reconfigured the Asterisk VoIP link Cleaned up the rack cabling for AC, DC, RF, Ethernet Site survey with spectrum analyzer to make sure input and output are clean. Also See: Time-lapse video of the… Read More ›
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Time-lapse video of drive to 435 repeater site
Time-lapse video of a one hour drive up to the 435 repeater site at 5,700 feet on the top of Santiago Peak in Orange County, CA. A fairly easy truck trail, but most of the road has a 500+… Read More ›