VA3DIS
is owned and operated by the Amateur Radio of DrydenVA3DIS Repeater
147.375+ IRLP Node #2739
VA3DIS
is owned and operated by the Amateur Radio of Dryden
The repeater is located at the City of Dryden Fire Service Building.
It is consists of a 56' DMDX free standing Delhi tower, Comet GP-9 dual band vertical for the repeater, Cushcraft 14 element 2 meter beam, Ham 3 rotor and a Spiro all-band wire antenna for HF. The GP-9 is fed with Andrews 7/8" heliax, the beam with Andrews 1/2" heliax and the wire antenna with RG-8 coax.
The repeater equipment consists of a GE VHF Mastr II, 65 watt continuous duty , putting 50 watts to the antenna trough a Sinclair 5 Cavity Q-circuit duplexer. 2 cans on RX & 3 on TX for full isolation with no desense. The VHF receiver pre-amp is a stock GE UHS. It is all ran by an S-Com 7K, 2 port controller. An Astron RM-35A-BB power supply powers the equipment, and trickle charges the 12v battery, for automatic backup switching when hydro is lost. The IRLP computer is connected directly to the second port of the controller linking the repeater. It usually connected to the 9002 Vancouver Reflector.
