W1NPP.org-Home of the Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club
PO Box 1, Auburn ME 04212-0001
Repeater: 442.000/447.000MHz no pl-tone on Goff Hill, Auburn,Maine
The 146.610 repeater in Auburn is on air with the System Fusion repeater.
Special Note:
There is no courtesy beep, drop the carrier to reset the time-out-timer.
Important! The 146.61 repeater will require a pl tone of 88.5 effective August 8 at 14:00 hours. You can start programming in the pl tone anytime now. We are giving more than two weeks notice to allow time to get everyones' radio reprogrammed. If you still have trouble getting the pl tone in your radio please come to the club meeting on August 6, maybe one of the club members can help you get the pl tone in your radio.
The club is beta testing this brand new .61 repeater system for the manufacturer who wants comments and reviews from you the user so that improvements can be made in the next models if needed. Please let us know things like, does the repeater come in as well in places you travel as the one it replaced, is the audio quality as good or better than other repeaters you have used. If you use the digital feature how did it work? Please email your comments including your name and call sign to the webmaster who will forward them to the project coordinator.
Learn more about this new digital voice mode at System Fusion
Get an overview of digital communications from the Digital Communications Guide
This system comes with two new digital radios, an FTM-400D and an FT1D for use by the club members.
If you don't have a digital radio yet, don't worry, System Fusion repeater should switch it self out of digital mode and back to the usual FM analog mode so you can continue to use the radio you already have. When it hears a digital radio it switches back to a digital repeeater. The analog output will have an 88.5 pl tone so analog listeners can set their receive squelch so they will not have to listen to the digital noise.
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Andy Club Officers
President: Bill Woodhead N1KAT
Vice President: Cory Golob KU1U
Treasurer: Ivan Lazure N1OXA
Secretary:Dick Knight N1NYW
Trustee: Norm L'Heureux W1SCM
News Letter Editor: Harold Hartley N1LLU
ARRL Maine Section Page
New ARRL Maine Section Page www.arrl-me.org
Next Andy Club Meeting:
The winner of the $ 500 HRO gift certificate was John Shandorf w1ii. Congratulations!!!
The VE team was busy as usual. Ivan reports the session produced four new techs, 2 upgrades to general and 3 extras. Congratulations!!!
See Doug Grants' talk at the convention about the upcoming W1AW/1 operations at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYZJjV7tzA
Watch the video of the ARRL Forum update with Tom Frenaye K1KI at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhcfmA88MU&feature=youtu.be
A big thank you to Chuck Yahrling for the use of the video. To see the 2013 video http://youtu.be/xrNTkY4LAw0
Andy Hamfest makes news http://www.qsl.net/hrde/Ham_Radio_Down_East/News.html and more more pictures at
http://www.qsl.net/hrde/Ham_Radio_Down_East/My_Albums/Pages/AndyHamfest.html
The Next Andy Club Meeting will be Wednesday August 6 2014 at 7 p.m. at the Potvin Room of the St. Marys' Medical Associates Building 99 Campus Avenue Lewiston Me. The 146.61 repeater will be getting a pl tone of 88.5 starting at 2 p.m. Friday August 6. Start setting your radios for the new pl tones now. In case you have trouble bring the radio and the book to the meeting and we will try to help.
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