{"id":210,"date":"2008-11-10T00:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T05:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-11-10T00:59:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T05:59:54","slug":"austins-14694-repeater-getting-pl-tone-1072","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s 146.94 Repeater Getting PL Tone 107.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/n5mnw_jeff.jpg\" title=\"Jeff N5MNW\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/n5mnw_jeff.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Jeff N5MNW\" alt=\"Jeff N5MNW\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Fresh off the e-mail press from Jeff N5MNW&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The [Austin Amateur Radio Club&#8217;s] W5KA &#8217;94 repeater has been exhibiting long\/hanging squelch  tails recently, most likely due to terrific VHF band openings and the decision to keep the Austin &#8217;94 an old-fashioned carrier-access machine.\u00a0 The antenna at ~1500&#8242; ASL hears things we at ~700&#8242; ASL can&#8217;t.\u00a0 Near-threshold co-channel (Brownwood, HOU, SA, DFW) signals cause the hysteresis in the squelch circuit to keep the repeater  keyed even though no audible signal is getting thru.<\/p>\n<p>The [Austin] Technical Team is working on adding multiple, S\/N voted 107.2Hz PL-tone-access remote receive site(s) that will help mitigate this effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure you are encoding 107.2Hz to take full advantage of the planned upgrades!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the e-mail press from Jeff N5MNW&#8230; The [Austin Amateur Radio Club&#8217;s] W5KA &#8217;94 repeater has been exhibiting long\/hanging squelch tails recently, most likely due to terrific VHF band openings and the decision to keep the Austin &#8217;94 an old-fashioned carrier-access machine.\u00a0 The antenna at ~1500&#8242; ASL hears things we at ~700&#8242; ASL can&#8217;t.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}