Howdy All. It's been a while. It's nice when things run smoothly.
Al (WB8YOB), Dale (KC8ZXF) and I went up to the repeater site to do some general maintenance and take a look at the ATV repeater. We've been asked to provide ATV support at an upcoming disaster drill training session and we knew that we've had some problems bringing up the repeater over the past 6 months. Al ended up taking everything home to be able to better diagnose the problem. I'm honestly not sure I remember what the symptoms were other than certain cameras would not come up. If someone better explains it to me (in writing) I can update and let everyone know. I have gotten word that since our visit, he was able to get everything working again. I think I remember someone saying something about blown fuses. Has to be more to it, but that's all I can recall.
Also, when we were at the site, I took a look at our PC and found out that it's going to need to be upgraded soon. It's currently running XP and a lot of our software has dropped support for XP. When we go back up to the site to re-install the ATV repeater, I'll pull the computer and start working on a replacement. The chassis has some custom work done to it so we can remotely control it via the repeater, so I'll have to find a computer that I can do the same kinds of mods.
As always, if you use the different systems and have any issues, please let me know.
73s
Adam
W8DEV
Al (WB8YOB), Dale (KC8ZXF) and I went up to the repeater site to do some general maintenance and take a look at the ATV repeater. We've been asked to provide ATV support at an upcoming disaster drill training session and we knew that we've had some problems bringing up the repeater over the past 6 months. Al ended up taking everything home to be able to better diagnose the problem. I'm honestly not sure I remember what the symptoms were other than certain cameras would not come up. If someone better explains it to me (in writing) I can update and let everyone know. I have gotten word that since our visit, he was able to get everything working again. I think I remember someone saying something about blown fuses. Has to be more to it, but that's all I can recall.
Also, when we were at the site, I took a look at our PC and found out that it's going to need to be upgraded soon. It's currently running XP and a lot of our software has dropped support for XP. When we go back up to the site to re-install the ATV repeater, I'll pull the computer and start working on a replacement. The chassis has some custom work done to it so we can remotely control it via the repeater, so I'll have to find a computer that I can do the same kinds of mods.
As always, if you use the different systems and have any issues, please let me know.
73s
Adam
W8DEV