Salinas Valley Repeater Group - W6DXW

This afternoon I went up to the Empire Grade site and did even more work to the W6DXW 442.750 Repeater. I installed an SCOM 7330 Repeater controller and configured P25 to finally function correctly. In the past if users keyed on P25 it would tie the linked system up with dead air. I’m happy to say that no longer happens, users can talk on P25 with out affecting the linked system. 
Any link system traffic takes priority of P25. If there is no traffic on the system, users can access the digital side of that system with $NAC 293.

Sunday we had a very successful tower climb, The 442.750 W6DXW Repeater had very poor performance, due to having water in the 7/8. The WB6ECE 441.3 repeater had a few discrepancies in the feed line as well, Both runs of coax have been swapped, increasing the performance of both repeaters significantly. 
I would like to thank our tower climbers Marcel Stieber AI6MS and Kenneth Finnegan Finnegan W6KWF for their continued hard work on our repeaters antenna system. We would not be ‘In the air everywhere’ with out these guys climbing the towers, doing a clean and professional job installing and maintaining our antenna systems. 
I would also like to thank our ground crew, Dave N0YES, Sione Ragle KE6STH, Zac K6ZWA, Nick K6CQX, Mike W6WLS, Matthew Kaufman KE6SQG, for volunteering their time, energy and expertise. With out everyone’s support as a community, SVRG would just be static in the air.

Photo credit goes to Arianne KK6QFQ thanks for taking photos all day!