Kb3awq 10 Meter FM Repeater 29.660

04/19/2026

Yesterday the 29.66 transmitter became a GE that is doing 170 watts out. Currently it is in repeater mode with the receiver being on 444.900. Last year we had the 15 harmonic with the two frequencies but with this having more selectivity, we are going to give it a try again. If not I will be able to make a remote setting change and reuse Allstarlink for its tie in.

Thanks to K4MTP for this and Caleb (NoCallsignYet) who is also did his first tower climb with Mike and did a great job. Also Johnny KD3BGD, N3SSL, Dave (GMRS call but is planning to test soon for ham). There were several other projects worked on with over 8 hours of work time today.

01/26/2026

I hear some key ups on 10 meters in the middle of the night almost every night (just a moment ago, for instance). PL is on as usual but just a key up. Drive by? Distant station?

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01/01/2026

I made it up to see what the damage was earlier today. I found the double bazooka that was sloped to the south was on the ground in one piece except for the SO239 connector as you can see in the picture. It appears that the paracord broke at the pulley, and it came down and ripped the SO239 apart. The coax is still up toward the top as you can see in the one picture. The other coiled up coax appears to be another piece that was left up there. The ice added some weight onto it for sure, and the extra winds that we had didn't help. The ice on the paracord was a couple of inches thick, but the wire was free of ice.

So we will be down to just the main receiver, which is a dipole on the north side, for a while. There may not be much difference noticed as the regular dipole gets most of the signals as well anyway. We are considering a couple of other voting receive sites that should help in some areas where the transmitter does better than the main receiver site.

Have a safe and healthy New Year!

12/31/2025

We had some ice earlier in the week and the southern sloper antenna is not working but the north facing antenna is still working so things will still work until we can do something with the southern one. We are hoping to find a couple more receive sites. The transmitter does well over to Wilkes Barre but it didn't hear well over there, so something between here and there would be ideal and we may possibly be able to get a receiver just north of Lock Haven if all goes well. I have one voting package ready to go, I just need the antennas to go to them and a UHF antenna at the main receiver site that goes into the voter

12/08/2025

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11/15/2025

10/26/2025

This map of course just shows the area between each of the tower sites that are linked. Click this link for the actual map https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1pgLOtES7HQ2qkEqVGcsKQzlI5ZiWqTQ&usp=sharing
The 5 Red towers are N3FYI 446.475 PL 114.8
The Blue Towers are KB3AWQ/W3AHS/Williamsport and the Lock Haven tower that KE4MHE has his receiver at.
The Orange is the ones is K4MTP's repeaters Catawissa and Long Pond
The Purple is KB3VXB's repeater

10/25/2025

29.660 voter here in Williamsport, PA. Left is the north antenna and right is the south antenna. From earlier today. A voter picks the better signal to noise ratio signal of the two and if it changes it will change also

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10/06/2025

Today the 29.660 repeater PL tone was changed to 131.8 for transmit and receive Ham Radio Ham Radio Kb3awq 10 Meter FM Repeater 29.660 73s.org Social Network for Ham Radio operators Ham Radio Operators ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio 10 Meter Amateur Radio

09/21/2025

10 meter voter earlier with n3aei and xe2arp in Mexico. The orange lights are the signal and the green is the voted receiver that it's on. 1 is the northern sirio sd27 and 2 is the double bazooka sloped south