WELCOME TO THE W3AHS REPEATER SYSTEM WEBSITE - 147.300 PL 151.4 hz
NOTE: To Access the Repeater you need to set your PL to encode 151.4 hertz. If you want to use "Tone Squelch" you must set the Decoder to 167.9 hertz (so PL 151.4 to get into the repeater and if you choose (PL 167.9 to listen as the repeater transmits 167.9 for those radios that accepts 2 different PL tones)- 11/30/04
Millionaire Amateur Radio Club
672 Cemetery Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
From the W3AHS site Looking @ the WRAK Tower on West Fourth St and the Old High School on Penn College Campus and the bridge you see is the Market St Bridge. Also as you can see on the lower left part of the picture where the cars are is where Little League Baseball was originated at the Original Carl E. Stotz Field on West Fourth Street. Also note this is the location of the First World Series game in 1939 as it was here for a number of years before moving to the current location at the South Williamsport complex.
The 147.300 W3AHS Repeater has a no dues paying membership but in order for us to have this callsign we had to form a club or as it could be called an "Un-Club". Someday if there becomes interest at the high school with students becoming Amateur Radio Operators then that would be reason to have more of a club with students and employees, like how it works at some schools and colleges, there would be similar bylaws for operation and the current bylaws would need to be modified.
This is just a repeater on the air to get some different coverage and just to have a good time with and experiment. With a good deal of the equipment was received by donation which is what made the start of this repeater system happen. Special Thanks to:
*Silent Key* Bill Colville - W3NMK - Our Duplexer Tuning Specialist, Antenna work
Ryan Gross - N3SSL - Work Details
*Silent Key* Harry Linker - N3NSO passed along through Ryan Gross - N3SSL- Donated the Uniden Force ARU-351 Repeater that was previously in use.
Also a special thanks to the
also thanks to
for the hook up of the Kenwood Mobiles for repeater operation and the hook up of the CAT-300 controller.
With great thankfulness to everyone involved for their greatfulness and help/support with making this repeater happen as well as function not to mention the hours that we all spent to do this.
Click Here to go to the W3AHS Repeater Forum Proboard
You can Test your Key Pad and have it read back to you by keying up, identifying your Technician class or higher amateur radio callsign followed by "testing keypad" and entering 375 followed by whatever DTMF's you want to test on your radio and it will read it back to you in voice (ex. 375123 it will read back "keypad test 123"). Of course you have to have a good enough signal into the repeater in order for any DTMF commands to work, plus your touch tones will come through over the repeater instead of muting if the signal is too weak.
We are now WorldWide via Echolink (Node # 277377). Using the /\/\ GM-300 Link radio at the repeater via KB3AWQ's Cemetery Street house in Williamsport using a Alinco DR 605T from the UHF side that is hooked to a Windows XP machine and out over the internet on Echolink. Previously we had a part time (accessible when turned on) link via 440 to the 444.700 repeater located near State College. This repeater (the N3EB/R) is located on Black Moshannon Mountain approx. 10 miles northwest of State College and it also has a voting receiver located approx. 5 miles southeast of State College in Boalsburg on Little Flat Mountain. Their PL is 114.8 if you would like to try it directly. A side note directly from Eric, N3EB - he would rather not see the repeater connected to a network of linked repeaters or connected full time unattended to another repeater (meaning the 147.300 repeater or any others).
National Weather Service Radar (good)
Aerial Colored Picture of WAHS
Another Picture of the WAHS Campus from the Air
Also, keep in mind that we do not have a dues paying club membership. If something would happen to break down and would be out of our price range at that time, We don't have a problem accepting a donation, since most everything having to do with the repeater was donated originally. **Note any donations would hopefully be from the main users, and does not in any way give any special privledges or ownership or control of the repeater unless notified prior to the donation by KB3AWQ or his designee and approved by Millionaire Amateur Radio Club. Donations are donations (no giving and then taking back) and this would be at ones discretion knowing the terms that have just been stated. Also don't forget to support the local clubs (not a requirement of course) but free use of W3AHS/R is not an excuse not to join/support the other local ham clubs. There is the West Branch Amateur Radio Association, and the Bald Eagle Repeater Association (the BERA club I have a link listed below to their website). Also I have emall addresses to representatives of both clubs if you choose to join. For the West Branch Amateur Radio Association please contact Steve Phillips - K3NX
and for the Bald Eagle Repeater Association please contact Matt Hoppes - KB3MSE
Penn College Webcam (throughout the campus)
SOME MORE NEWS!!!
BATTERY BACK UP! was hooked up the night of 7/24/04 and the primary charger is this Power Gate West Mountain Radio Charger to charge the 150 amp hour 4 D 1972 military surplus battery that was bought at Murgas Hamfest 2004. Yes, it's pretty heavy!! and that was when it was dry, its full now.
APRS.... We do have an APRS set up at the repeater site (nothing fancy, same thing as you might have in your ham shack) providing the computer doesnt lock up or if the school has a power failure. W3AHS is the callsign it's using. We are using 5 watts into a 1/4 wave mag mount just above the repeater cabinet (indoors). Since APRS is set up at the repeater site and our work place we are not at the computer most of the time but occasionally we make it up there to check things out and get on, actually the computer is off due to interference on the repeater that the computer causes.
On November 30th 2006 LMR-400 was installed on the Transmit antenna as the old coax had some water in the line and wasn't transmitting too well and ended up with a high SWR.
2001-present
Last Updated 2/26/08
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