News on OM0OUB 70cm RPT

Substantial improvements took place on the Bratislava 70cm OM0OUB converter. Due to the addition of the antenna of one private FM radio 4 meters from a converter with several 100W in February, the OM0OUB function deteriorated. That is why the changes were started, which culminated 1.6.2009 complete replacement of both TRXs, management, antennas, seagull and we also added a very high-quality one Digikeyer pre Echolink, which was sponsored by the Slovak company Microham www.microham.com which makes the Echolink sound great. The converter has a significantly better range thanks to the new antenna. HW modifications TRX and new controller committed OM1AEG tone, he financed the whole thing and QTH provided Filip OM1AI in cooperation with the Internet provider Radiolan www.radiolan.sk. More details about the changes, coverage maps as well as a photo gallery from the installation can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/om1aeg/prevadzac-om0oub.

As part of improving coverage and at the same time harmonizing with the last IARU conference we turned off the Echolink node in Stupava on 145.300MHz, this TRX, after reconditioning, will be moved to the new higher QTH at the western end of Dúbravka, the frequency will be changed in accordance with IARU, the subtone for RX/TX will be used, the antenna will 4 ele yagi directed to Záhorie, so that we do not needlessly broadcast to OE and at the same time improve the coverage of Záhorio compared to the current state… We will try to get this NODE up and running as quickly as possible… Maps of the current as well as the planned future porkyt are available: https://sites.google.com/site/om1aeg/echolink-nod-om0oub-l

Tone, OM1AEG