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Jim VE3WA, removing old antenna mount Skylon tower     WAJ Antenna arrays on top of the Skylon

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VE3WAJ 125cm repeater    224.180 MHz 107.2 Hz tone, cross linked to UHF 

 

VA3WAJ 70 cm repeater    442.425 MHz 107.2 Hz tone, linked to the system Hub

 

Echolink 212303               Currently not active

 

The Niagara Repeater system, uses an RF Technologies commercial, UHF repeater 55 watts, an RF Technologies VHF (220 MHz) commercial repeater 120 watts, controlled by a Link Communications RLC-2A Gold Series controller. The Receiver pre-amp pre-selector tray is made by Webbtronics. The PL, and squelch conditioning boards are made by JDR Technical Services. The link port uses a GE Phoenix commercial radio 5 watts to link into the ERA repeater system, it is frequency agile and can select several link paths to the other repeaters in the group.

The UHF repeater is Multi-coupled into a Sinclair SRL 310-C8 1/4 wave spaced array using  two sets of modified to 3/4 wave Sinclair C-Series, four cavity filters with an insertion loss of only 1.9 dB, per set.

The VHF system is connected to an SRL 210-C4 1/4 wave spaced  array using an 8 cavity Sinclair RES-LOK duplexer for 220 MHz operation, with a loss of 0.8 dB per side.

The link radio has it's own dedicated 1/4 wave ground-plane antenna.

WAJ is 520 feet AGL, and is 1146.5 feet RC-AMSL

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