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About
The DMR Repeater in Prior Lake described below, has been deployed to Faribault, MN. The following information is still a good reference point for me. More details on the Faribault, MN DMR Repeater can be found here
Jan 28th 2016, Prior Lake, MN
The N0AGI Prior Lake, MN DMR Repeater is On-The-Air running the recently acquired new Motorola MotoTRBO SLR5700 repeater.
Over the last 2 weeks or so today (as of Jan 28th 2016), I have been considering replacing my Yaesu Fusion DR-1X repeater w/ a Motorola MotoTRBO DMR Repeater. During the course of this exploration, I was considering MTR3000 and SLR5700. MTR3000 is a 100W and SLR5700 is a 50W – both continuous duty cycle repeaters. I was speaking w/ a few HAMs who have experience in DMR repeaters, few have owned these and have installed and setup these for their clubs or their own sites. My QTH is not on a hill top (relatively speaking), therefore, I was hearing that a 100W repeater might not be such a usable investment. Also, considering this will be all digital, a 50W out was suggested to be a good approach.
I then spoke w/ W2XAB – John Burningham to discuss a few more Q&A; following this, I went and ordered a new SLR5700 from K1DMR – Ken Bryant. Additionally, I had also ordered an open box, XPR4550 base radio for my shack.
As of this late evening, Friday Jan 29th 2016, the DMR repeater is on the air; the Fusion repeater DR-1X is taken out consequently. I will be putting the Fusion back up on the air once I get my 2nd UHF coordination or my 1st VHF coordination – but, more importantly, after Yaesu determines a good plan to their firmware situation.
This page attempts to detail this project as I move this further along. You will find pictures and a series of videos.
73s, N0AGI
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Credits :
Thanks to the following good friends who helped in my DMR exploration efforts (in no particular order).
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