Loose Notes 10/4/15

Not much to go with this week, but I wanted to get in a post. Here goes:

• Per KA0PQW (Matt), the 223.940- (100.0 PL) will soon be re-linked to the HandiHam network. N0BVE (Don) has put up a tower for the remote base at KG0BP's (Chris) house. No word on if KG0BP plans to restore his 444.850+ HandiHam repeater as part of this effort. Still, we have cross-band 1.25M linking in the metro again. 

•  Rumours are that K9EQ (Chris) is testing yet another System Fusion repeater to go on the 442.025 pair. Per Chris' RepeaterBook listing, the new repeater will be in Ham Lake and provide wide-area coverage, though it seems it will mainly be providing C4FM coverage to the north metro and exurbs. This is an area that has always seemed reluctant to embrace UHF, but it should provide a very useful link to the urban core. 

•  N0FKM (Dan) has now fixed the 444.550+ (114.8) repeater. It has been suffering from poor receive for several months now, and apparently had a bad connector or patch cable. Dan also has another UHF repeater in testing out of his home in Columbia Heights, so it should be interesting to see what comes of that. 

• Less than a week before the launch of the new Fox 1-A satellite.