VARC Repeaters Moved ! April 28th

29Apr

by Ted Uyeno Repeater

Yesterday members of the technical team assembled in order to move the club’s VHF and UHF repeaters to the new equipment room located inside of the water tank. Everything went very smooth with the move. The biggest worry were the heavy hard-lines going to the antennas. But in the end they proved to be a non-issue. More work will need to be done later in order to finish up installation,grounding and other cabling. Now the VARC has enough room in order to install the D-Star repeater and Allstar equipment.

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