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Now you can. The Delafield repeater is back online and this means Madison is re-linked to the system as well.

Good news, no equipment loss, just 3 blown fuses on the AC side of power.

Happy Transmitting!
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FM38

Unfortunately, our Delafield repeater experienced a failure on 2-April. With this failure, Delafield and Madison are disconnected from the FM38 system. We think it is a power supply and will require a service call to diagnose and repair. This will take some time to schedule.

Hope to have you folks back on the system soon.

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the FM38 team.

The receive site south of Milwaukee is currently down. We hope to address the issue at the end of the week.

In and around Kenosha, portable stations will be noisy and mobiles will need to run high power.

It seems we are having some trouble at a couple of sites with this cold weather. The Green Bay and Lake Geneva repeaters are currently down.

Due to experience, we expect Green Bay to come online once the temperature rises above single digits,

We are unsure of the issue with the Lake Geneva site, it has lost transmit audio. We are hoping it is also temperature related as well.

N9DEG

The Allenton site was restored 11/10/20 by N9GMT, N9FBF, & KD9BWB. The FM38 network is now restored, with Barabooo, Ripon, and Oshkosh fully operational.

FM38 announces the availability of all three popular VOIP technologies,
Allstar Link (#2495), IRLP (#4606) and Echolink (#467140). As far as we
know, we are the first repeater in Wisconsin to offer all three full-time.

Normally, the FM38 network is parked on the IRLP Wisconsin Reflector
Channel 4 (#9624), where we are joined by other Wisconsin repeaters
periodically for nets like the Wednesday evening 145.130 swap-net.

Due to the tower replacement scheduled for the F2 Allenton system we have been without the use of a receive antenna to hear our northern systems.

Some users of the system contacted me last Friday about a problem accessing our northern repeaters. It was determined that the problem was at our Allenton repeater.

Please be advised, the FM38 transmitter failed Wed night around 9pm.
FM38 may be down until Saturday.

A program on this topic will be presented at the October meeting of his West Allis Radio Amateur Club by Stan Kaplan, WB9RQR. Each of Stan’s Seven Ways To Make Your Computer Run Better will be broad brushstrokes and he will elaborate on each one. You’ll recognize Stan as the author of the Computer Corner series of articles that have appeared in Badger State Smoke Signals for the last 10 years or so.

Don’t miss this chance to hear Stan in person and be able to ask him questions!

The WARAC meeting is at 7:30PM on Tuesday, October 9 at St Peter’s Episcopal Church, 7929 W Lincoln Ave in West Allis.

Please use the rear entrance (off the alley).