Four Sites In Four Days

"Four Sites In Four Days"

Sunol Ridge

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Picture of the Sunol Ridge building where the our Sunol Ridge repeater is located. This is a very nice site with a bathroom! Can you believe that? A bathroom!

Note: The repeater antenna and link antennas are located on the pole next to the microwave dish just above the white truck. (My white Truck)

This is a view of the coverage that Sunol Ridge provides to the Amador Valley where Mark (WA6KBP) and Chuck (N6BLA) live. This is truly a great site!

Front of the rack at Sunol Ridge. From top to bottom: The control system, repeater duplexer, link GE MVP on the right, repeater GE MVP on the left, Band pass filter, Chip Angle pre-amp, Circulator for the repeater and on the bottom the power supply.

Back of the rack at Sunol Ridge. From top to bottom: The control system, repeater duplexer, repeater GE MVP on the right, link GE MVP on the left, Band pass filter on the right, Chip Angle pre-amp, Circulator for the repeater and on the bottom the power supply.

Note: We arrived at the site on July 24, 2000 at about 9:30 am. That day we were able to convert the repeater and link audio to flat audio, thus making this repeater sound better. It took most of the day and we ended up doing surgery on both radios to make them sound good. At the end of our fourth day at four hilltops , we celebrated the tremendous success at the Calnet standard eating establishment - In N' Out". Mission accomplished!

The work crew for Sunol ridge. Top row from left to right : Mark (WA6KBP), Chris (K6TMI). Bottom row from left to right: Marshall (KE6PCV), Gerry (KB6OOC). This was the last site that we had to visit and marked the end of our visit up in bay area. We left the site sometime around 5:30 pm and headed down the hill to grab a bite to eat at IN & OUT Burger. Boy did those burgers taste good. We were on the road by 7:00 pm and on our way home back to southern California. We decided to take the 101 freeway home to test out the coverage of the new Crystal Peak repeater. Boy does this repeater hear good! We were able to work the repeater all the way down one the 101 freeway to about the 146 freeway. Just over a 100 miles south of the site!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and my commentary!

Marshall KE6PCV