Repeaters
The Oakville Amateur Radio Club owns and operates two voice repeaters and an IRLP node located at Latitude N 43 28.150, Longitude W 079 41.625 (Trafalgar Road and Marlborough Court just north of the QEW on Trafalgar Rd), at an antenna height of 500 feet above mean sea level.
All the equipment at the site is connected to the emergency power back up of the apartment building generator.
The club call is VE3HB; repeater and IRLP Node is VE3OAK.
VHF Repeater: Tx 147.015 Rx 147.615 (tone encode 131.8hz.)
The VHF repeater is made from a Johnson Fleetwood mobile radio with the transmitter output at about 28 watts. An
S-Com 7K repeater controller with speech synthesis module and phone patch module make for the smarts of the
repeater. A Sinclair duplexer is used for combining the Tx and Rx feeding 80 feet of cable to a 2 bay Sinclair SRL-210C-2 mono band antenna.
UHF Repeater: Tx 444.325 Rx 449.325 Mhz. CTCSS 131.8 tone (tone not activated at this time).
The UHF repeater is made from a WR-1455 mobile radio with the transmitter output at about 12 watts.
A S-Com 5K repeater controller makes the smarts for the machine. A Sinclair duplexer is used for combining the Rx and
Tx feeding about 80 feet of cable to a 4 bay Sinclair SRL-310C-4HD antenna.
APRS repeater
As of 2000, the club also has an APRS digipeater at the repeater site.
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