145.235
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W7VNJ Tower site
W7VNJ's Club Tower Site is located North of Casper. It's a commercial tower that origionaly supported a broadcast TV station. Site includes a steel, insulated, well built, air-conditioned enclosure. The tower and shelter are in excellent condition. Hosting the W7VNJ 145.235 repeater, the tower supports a Decibel Products DB-224 4 bay, folded dipole antenna. Fed with 3/4" hard line, this tower, feedline and antenna give us excellent performance. A 4 can duplexer feeds 2 Motorola, commercial radios doing RX and TX duties. All controled by a CAT-1000 repeater controler. Rack mounted for stability and access, the entire setup is powered by a linear power supply with a built in battery backup.
The 145.235 repeater (negative offset, 100hz tone), is more of a 'Local coverage' repeater. The repeater can be easily reached using low power transmitters, such as hand helds, from most all of the Casper metro area.
For 'Regional coverage', you may want to use the 146.940 repeater located on Casper Mountain.
The deep cycle, marine type battery should provide several hours of operation in case of loss of commercial power. Currently output power on the transmitter is turned down to about 20 watts. Unfortunatly, the autopatch isn't yet operational - but that's comming! Come to a meeting and hear about the exciting plans we have for connecting an autopatch, serving amateur video, linking (RF and VOIP), weather, telemetry and more.
For those that are interested, this page has maps showing the relative coverage areas for the old Casper Mnt site and the new W7VNJ site.
We have more information on other repeaters in the Casper area.
