Locating Repeaters on Public Land & Buildings ~ 02/15/2024

Speaker/Presenter: "Marty Woll, N6VI & Barry Porter, KB1PA"
Documents (including slideshow): www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/xva2x6...
===========================================
Radio Amateur Training Planning and Activities Committee (RATPAC) comprises Amateur Radio Operators of a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Together, we host nationwide Amateur Radio Zoom presentations twice a week, Wednesdays on general radio topics and Thursdays on amateur radio emergency communications.
Our Website- www.ratpac.us
List of upcoming & previous sessions- tiny.cc/ratpac-list
Facebook- / ratapacfb
Twitter- / ratpacp
The topics are selected from audience recommendations and the planning committee then seeks topic experts or discussion panel members. The presentation audience consists of thousands of amateur radio operators worldwide who participate directly in the Zoom sessions or with video links of the presentation and related documentation sent out after each session. Please complete the form on our web page to suggest a topic or speaker for future sessions.
Join one or more of our Groups.io to receive notifications and participate in related discussions:
Wed & Thur live ZOOM Link- www.ratpac.us/zoom
RATPAC - groups.io/g/RATPAC
NewHams - groups.io/g/NewHams
EMCOMM - sec-emcomm.groups.io/g/main
Please be sure to include your name and call sign when registering

[@joeblow8593]

Fine presentation

[@symtron]

Thanks to RATPAC for hosting this subject and making it available on YT. I was not able to attend the live session. Thanks again to all who make this possible.

[@RATPAC]

Our pleasure!

[@SansNeural]

For nearly 30 years, my local club has had a couple of repeaters at a tower site that used to host the local university's NPR radio station transmitter. The university still has around 70 years left on their 100 year lease on the site, but now only uses it for remotes and feeds to their new tower site. Thing is, the ham that installed and attends our repeaters there was the Engineer for that radio station for those 30 years - that site was his site. Now he's retired and a new, non-ham is the station's Engineer.
Our guy now works part time for the radio station and is on good terms with the new Engineer, but he seems a little worried that our repeater plug could be pulled any time. And he seems a little afraid for the university to be officially informed about our presence. I was recently elected President of our club (and learned that it's about a 10 year minimum sentence ;) and figure I may inherit this repeater placement problem.
BTW, it's a really nice location, with our 2m antenna at about 240' on the tower and fiber internet at the shack.