Charlottesville repeater update
A team worked today on the Charlottesville repeater to try to diagnose the cause of intermittent difficulty getting into and using the C’ville repeater. There appears to be some desense in the antenna system and noise from site and local area. Further diagnostics and a tower climb will be planned in the coming months. A spare repeater and new duplexer to repeater cables was swapped into place as well to eliminate potential issues. For the moment, users may continue to experience degraded performance at intermittent times.
A special thanks goes to Rod, N8RAT for providing a lot of test equipment and knowledge during this assessment.