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Rain fade on the #N8DUY 145.15- weekday morning roundtable in Ann Arbor MI. A lot of sizzle on the signal, challenging conditions in general. The repeater has very good wide area coverage and people were getting in from the northern Detroit suburbs as usual.
Thanks to Jim #W8STX for running the net, and to the taxpayers of Washtenaw County for supporting emergency management; the N8DUY repeater is also used for the ARPSC public service corps net, SKYWARN, et al.
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Rain fade on the #N8DUY 145.15- weekday morning roundtable in Ann Arbor MI. A lot of sizzle on the signal, challenging conditions in general. The repeater has very good wide area coverage and people were getting in from the northern Detroit suburbs as usual.
Thanks to Jim #W8STX for running the net, and to the taxpayers of Washtenaw County for supporting emergency management; the N8DUY repeater is also used for the ARPSC public service corps net, SKYWARN, et al.
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After way too many weeks away, I checked into this morning's 800a weekday morning roundtable on the Ann Arbor #N8DUY repeater, organized by Jim #W8STX .
This is the net that I check into bicycle portable when the weather and the season allows, and I've also operated from the top of parking structures in town.
Not today though. I have a Kenwood TK-790 rig (ex-BNSF railroad radio) that @w8tam fixed up for ham use. Notes from a year ago from when I hauled it to the park.
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Successfully worked the Washtenaw County Michigan siren test net bicycle mobile. I took the Stein Road siren which is adjacent to the Barton Hills County Club. Next time I will go to the same siren as a companion of someone in the club and do the test from the fairway.
Siren is at grid EN82ch78XW in Ann Arbor Township, #N8DUY #skywarn repeater is in Scio Township at I-94 and M-14
Signal reports were "good, strong signal" from my HT.
73 de Ed W8EMV Ann Arbor
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Successfully worked the Washtenaw County Michigan siren test net bicycle mobile. I took the Stein Road siren which is adjacent to the Barton Hills County Club. Next time I will go to the same siren as a companion of someone in the club and do the test from the fairway.
Siren is at grid EN82ch78XW in Ann Arbor Township, #N8DUY #skywarn repeater is in Scio Township at I-94 and M-14
Signal reports were "good, strong signal" from my HT.
73 de Ed W8EMV Ann Arbor
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Successfully worked the Washtenaw County Michigan siren test net bicycle mobile. I took the Stein Road siren which is adjacent to the Barton Hills County Club. Next time I will go to the same siren as a companion of someone in the club and do the test from the fairway.
Siren is at grid EN82ch78XW in Ann Arbor Township, #N8DUY #skywarn repeater is in Scio Township at I-94 and M-14
Signal reports were "good, strong signal" from my HT.
73 de Ed W8EMV Ann Arbor
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Successfully worked the Washtenaw County Michigan siren test net bicycle mobile. I took the Stein Road siren which is adjacent to the Barton Hills County Club. Next time I will go to the same siren as a companion of someone in the club and do the test from the fairway.
Siren is at grid EN82ch78XW in Ann Arbor Township, #N8DUY #skywarn repeater is in Scio Township at I-94 and M-14
Signal reports were "good, strong signal" from my HT.
73 de Ed W8EMV Ann Arbor
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Successfully worked the Washtenaw County Michigan siren test net bicycle mobile. I took the Stein Road siren which is adjacent to the Barton Hills County Club. Next time I will go to the same siren as a companion of someone in the club and do the test from the fairway.
Siren is at grid EN82ch78XW in Ann Arbor Township, #N8DUY #skywarn repeater is in Scio Township at I-94 and M-14
Signal reports were "good, strong signal" from my HT.
73 de Ed W8EMV Ann Arbor
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Monthly siren test report for April for Washtenaw County (excluding Ann Arbor, which has its own separate set of sirens)
15 listeners
2 sirens not sounding at all
1 siren needing maintenance (grinding sounds from gearbox)The net ran about 30 minutes + the 15 minutes each way to get to the siren I was assigned to. Mine was fine (good loud sound, it rotated just fine, no need for maintenance).
Thanks to #N8DUY for the use of the repeater.
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Monthly siren test report for April for Washtenaw County (excluding Ann Arbor, which has its own separate set of sirens)
15 listeners
2 sirens not sounding at all
1 siren needing maintenance (grinding sounds from gearbox)The net ran about 30 minutes + the 15 minutes each way to get to the siren I was assigned to. Mine was fine (good loud sound, it rotated just fine, no need for maintenance).
Thanks to #N8DUY for the use of the repeater.
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Monthly siren test report for April for Washtenaw County (excluding Ann Arbor, which has its own separate set of sirens)
15 listeners
2 sirens not sounding at all
1 siren needing maintenance (grinding sounds from gearbox)The net ran about 30 minutes + the 15 minutes each way to get to the siren I was assigned to. Mine was fine (good loud sound, it rotated just fine, no need for maintenance).
Thanks to #N8DUY for the use of the repeater.
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Monthly siren test report for April for Washtenaw County (excluding Ann Arbor, which has its own separate set of sirens)
15 listeners
2 sirens not sounding at all
1 siren needing maintenance (grinding sounds from gearbox)The net ran about 30 minutes + the 15 minutes each way to get to the siren I was assigned to. Mine was fine (good loud sound, it rotated just fine, no need for maintenance).
Thanks to #N8DUY for the use of the repeater.
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Monthly siren test report for April for Washtenaw County (excluding Ann Arbor, which has its own separate set of sirens)
15 listeners
2 sirens not sounding at all
1 siren needing maintenance (grinding sounds from gearbox)The net ran about 30 minutes + the 15 minutes each way to get to the siren I was assigned to. Mine was fine (good loud sound, it rotated just fine, no need for maintenance).
Thanks to #N8DUY for the use of the repeater.
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Headed out to Burns Park AA-023 this morning to work the weekly morning roundtable on #N8DUY 145.15- , with Jim #W8STX net control.
It was windy and I had a lot of wind noise on my mic until I got under the shelter. I hung up my #N9TAX roll-up J-pole, connected it to my #Quansheng HT, with good reception reports.
A strap to put around a tree so that I can hang the J-pole from it would be a useful addition to the kit.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/edward-vielmetti/53557676763/in/datetaken/
cc @kb6nu
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Call up for the siren test net on #N8DUY 145.15- for the Washtenaw County Michigan emergency warning sirens. Sirens will activate throughout the county (except for the city of Ann Arbor) at noon.
This is the #skywarn repeater here.
Coincidentally there is also a University of Michigan football game starting at noon, with a planned overflight of some high performance aircraft.
Monitor if you want to hear via #Broadcastify
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Q1. Where are you checking in from and, if you have your license, what was your most recent contact?
A1. Ann Arbor, MI, grid EN82dg.
Most recent contact this morning on a morning roundtable net, pedestrian mobile on 2 meters via #N8DUY , with Jim #W8STX as net control. Band conditions fair in the early morning, there is interference when the band is long.
W8STX is there every day, keeps a log that he posts monthly, and generally directs traffic on the net. Thanks Jim!
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The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL
Listening now on #Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158
Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.
fun with #vhfdx
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The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL
Listening now on #Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158
Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.
fun with #vhfdx
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The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL
Listening now on #Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158
Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.
fun with #vhfdx
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The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL
Listening now on #Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158
Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.
fun with #vhfdx
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The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL
Listening now on #Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158
Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.
fun with #vhfdx
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11 of us on the #N8DUY 800a morning roundtable (#VHF, 145.15- PL100, #AnnArbor area repeater covers much of metro #Detroit).
A report that yesterday we had a Canadian station #VE3TCS Tim check in at the end (though I did not hear him).
I could copy a few stations on the input, from my QTH standing outside the Westgate library coffee shop. (Indoor reception not anywhere near as good.) That included Wes #N8QM as he was driving past on M-14.
Thanks to Jim #W8STX for being net control.
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Fantastic morning 2m net on #N8DUY
From the 8th floor of the parking structure I have clear line of sight to the repeater and got good reports at 30 milliwatts! Bumped it up to 300 mw and it was full quieting.
Thanks Jim #W8STX for running the net.
Now inside with the morning coffee.
Scheming to do AREDN portable next as there is line of sight to a station there as well.
#PSOTA (parking structures on the air) 🅿️ :radio_handheld: