OE6VHF Hamradio Blog

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Mountain Tour to Rennfeld canceled today

Yesterday I brought some material to OE6MKD.
In that case we realised that some thing's aren't up till now, which we have expected to be.
So we have to delay the work to next weekend possibly....

Friday, March 31, 2006

Update OE6XEG/OE6XED



"Rennfeld" voice repeater is situated near the city of Bruck/Mur approx 1630m over sea level. That's about 50km north of Graz.The grid locator is JN77QJ.
In the past I made an offer to the Sysops OE6MKD and OE6WUD to help them to revitalize the 2m and 70cm voice repeater. I'll support them with RF-material such as Cellfelex Cable, Antennas, measurement units a.s.o.

The first step is to change the antenna system.
Actually there is a Wave Trap Antenna for 2m and a vertical polarised dipole for 70cm up there.

There is also a Packet Radio Link Antenna for the 23cm Band on the same mast.

The plan is to change the 2m and 70cm antenna against a dualband vertical.
The electrical lenght of the dualband antenna is l5/8 at 70cm and l1/2 on 2m.
For the 23cm we expect a change to a helical type.

Today I get the information that a possible start date is Sunday the 2nd April 2006.
So perhaps it works. If yes, I can present you some fine photos..........