CVARC

Allen Wilde N1IOE and Tom Girardi WA1YNU were able to get the repair truck up to the repeater site yesterday and repair CVARC’s W1BD repeater in Williamstown. Allen wrote:

The fault was just as thought, bad connection…. photos will show…. The photo with the small part shown, is the underside of the jumper, you will see the darker side was the connection that broke free of solder. This gave a connection only by capacitance coupling giving the repeater an RF output of only 2 watts ( see what you can do with low power) this is a common problem for any transmitter, it’s caused by expansion and contraction of two independent circuits from heating and cooling. A fan was installed on the amp…to help prevent this, and a new jumper installed…. We are back up to full power, RX and TX freq.’s were also checked as well as RX sensitivity and deviation. With full power out, 250mw (1/4 watt) was reflected (SWR).

So we’re back up and running with full power. Many thanks to Allen and Tom!