Cedar Point feed

[CVPI4Ever]

In witch county will you be setting this feed in to and how long before the link will be set in to RR.

Cedar Point is in Erie County.

 

[k8wtf]

The Cedar Point feed is up and seems to be working pretty well.

- I'm picking up a local amateur repeater on one of the operations frequencies. I triple checked that my scanner is programmed correctly, so it must be some sort of reflection.

- The ops channels are simplex and not through a repeater, so I'm only receiving the base side of the conversation for those channels. The repeater channels come in very strong and clear.

- I'm on a temporary antenna setup, within a few weeks I will be on a directional antenna about 20' higher than the current one.

I hope everyone enjoys - please share any feedback you have.

 

[QwKiE]

Thank You

Been waiting and I already had it on when you rang. Sounds good on this end so far.

 

[rdale]

Great start! I heard a callsign on the ham repeater - did you ID it from that?

 

[rdale]

That repeater is on 444.3125

 

[k8wtf]

It took me a few times to hear the ID correctly, I believe it's KA8VDW in Norwalk, OH - which is maybe 15 air miles from Cedar Point. The output frequency I'm finding of that repeater is 442.675. The frequency that I'm hearing it on is 464.37500, Operations channel 1 - and that's about 20Mhz off. I'm using a directional antenna pointing right at CP, the Norwalk repeater is probably a good 30 degrees off, but I'm sure it's putting out a bit of power as well.

That channel is pretty sporadic, and it's base/mobile so I only hear the base side usually anyway, so I'm probably going to lock it out for now until I can figure it out. I'm afriad people will get confused and go away if they hear ham traffic.

 

[rdale]

The link I have shows it's just down the road in Huron?

K5EHX Amateur Radio Repeater Mapping

Eitehr way, no worries about locking ops out.

 

[k8wtf]

This was what I found:

https://usrepeaters.com/site_detail.php?listing=31713

However, it looks like your info might be more accurate. That would make a lot of sense too, as the yagi I'm using points right towards Huron. I wonder if a better scanner would be better at filtering this reflection.

In the meantime, I'll block that channel.

 

[rdale]

I think your link just returned one of the three - https://usrepeaters.com/site_search.php?s_keyword=ka8vdw&x=0&y=0 seems to match.

 

[rdale]

FYI I am still hearing the ham machine.

 

[k8wtf]

Yes, my father has to lock it out for me, the scanner is at his house about 1 1/2 hours west of me. He's going to do it later tonight or tomorrow morning.

 

[k8wtf]

The ops channel with the repeater bleed-over is locked out - let me know if you still hear it - I haven't yet.

 

[adymoe]

What ever happened to your cp feed?

 

[k8wtf]

My father moved out of state so I no longer have a place within range of CP to locate the equipment. I own some vacant land in the area, I've thought about throwing up a short tower and a shed to host that and some other feeds, but it's pretty low on the list of things to spend money on!

 

[adymoe]

Oh okay. Im a huge Cedar Point fan and would love to hear ride ops. Ive always wanted to bring my scanner to the park in a hotel but im from canada and fear being questioned while crossing the border

 

[bucknut937]

i go to CP all the time what freq do you have for them and is there PL tones correct. I dont want all the intermod going on when im walking around

 

[jscott02]

i go to CP all the time what freq do you have for them and is there PL tones correct. I dont want all the intermod going on when im walking around

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