05.23.2020 KG4MRA REPEATER CARRIER LOCK PROBLEMS PERSIST

Post date: May 23, 2020 9:54:3 AM

Recent occurrences of the KG4MRA repeater carrier locks, including main and spare Quantar repeaters, remains a problem. Occurence is not very frequent, but frequent enough to engender multiple corrective actions. The number of Control Operators for KG4MRA has been tripled, and they are prepared to reset the Qunatar in service, if need be.

When not experiencing a carrier lock, the Quantar repeaters continue to function, with full sensitivity and full output power, so functionally, except for carrier lock, KG4MRA remains in normal service.

KG4MRA is working on this problem, with both Quantar repeaters (main and spare), both of which exhibit this random and infrequent carrier lock problem.

The current plan is to "fix the Quantars", and also to deploy in the KG4MRA rack, a Yaesu DR-2X Fusion repeater, for experimental and/or spare operations.

73's

Brewer Pedin W4MGA