In 1980, the Sand Hills Amateur
Radio Club decided to sponsor a repeater in Scott City.
It was also decided to raise most of the money for the
repeater in Scott City. Sam, W0OAG, and Andy, W0ZUX,
called on about 20 local businessmen and Professional
people and asked for donations of $200 each. Many gave
that much, and with the help of other members of the club
$2,427 was raised. A coordinated frequency of
146.100/146.700 was obtained.
A Spectrum Communications
SCR1000 repeater was purchased. The station was set up
one mile west of Scott City at the Wheatland Electric
Power Plant, where it operates from today. Besides the
usual Duplexer, a combiner or diplexer was also
purchased. This allowed us to use the Wheatland Coax and
antenna. The duplexer is a DB-4060 and the combiner is a
DB-4055. The power calculated at ERP of 54 watts with a
30-watt input and a gain of 2.6 db.
The repeater was placed on the
air on February 3, 1981 with the call of W0ZUX/R. It was
noted that all Garden City stations reported weak
signals. We were unable to contact Syracuse. To obtain
better coverage of this area, the combiner was removed in
November of 1984, and the repeater was place on a coax
and antenna of its own. This increased the signal
strength in the fringe areas.
Down time has been a minimum.
It was down about a week in 1981 (transmitter IC was
bad), 1 day in 1984 and 1 day in 1985. The last two times
were due to an intermittent transistor in the receiver.
At the present time coverage includes all Scott County,
east to Dighton, west to Leoti, south to Garden and north
to about the Smokey Hill river.
SandHills
Amateur
Radio
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