A while ago I wrote about signs of a possible new repeater not too far from me.
Then it was gone for a while, and in the past week it reappeared, fully functional.
It is located on a tall building on the island of Amager (not terribly far from the airport for Copenhagen.
I don't have any technical information but I can say that it works very well.
Ii is located between 20 and 25km from me, and I made a test with the IC9700 connected to a reasonably well placed antenna with the feed point about 7m above ground.
I called in with the normal power (10W), and the signal was completely noise free. Not surprising, as the repeater antenna is high up.
Then I tried reducing power, to 5W, 2W, 1W. Still completely noise free.
0.5W, no change, 0.2W hardly any change.
I tried to go to 1% power output of the '9700, yes, a little bit of noise.
Finally I tried to reduce the power to the absolute minimum od the radio. Still a readable signal.
The sensitivity of the receive system is simply excellent.
Now it's time to find an alternative setup to operate via the repeater, the '9700 is so much overkill.
I have an old Kenwood TM741 that is in need of a repair and possibly alignment. I found the settings for operation with this repeater (needed the "odd split" memory to set it up, byt when testing no transmission (at least at the wanted frequency), and reception wasn't good either. Initially I could use my IC.905 for repeater operation (even if it's even more overkill), with a much lower (and smaller) antenna, until I can make a dedicated set up.
I may come up with a post with some crazy ideas that might never be used, for getting to operate such a local repeater on 23cm.
Here is what I know about the new repeater:
Output frequency: 1297.000MHz
Input frequency: 1257MHz (yes, 40MHz spacing)
Activation: CTCSS 82.5Hz
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