N5MBM

We are also working on a new repeater installation at the Brenham National Bank building, on top of the ISP towers located there. It will be an N5MBM repeater, node 45441. It should come online soon! It will be co-located with the Washington County Amateur Radio Club's W5AUM Brenham 145.390 C4FM repeater using digital AND FM to give the HT users in Brenham an easy to reach digital repeater to use... We swapped out the aging 25w Maxtrac based 70cm repeater (441.625) we have been running and upgraded to a 100w Quantar beast set to 80w. It should run forever, I am told. But I have noticed the difference immediately. I can talk on it all the way in to 99 in Houston, It's a wee bit better than it used to be!... We changed our 6m repeater setup - we changed from 103.5PL over to DCS 131. This is Digital Coded Squelch. Most modern radios have it, although most hams don't use it. It is on the input and output as DCS 131. For scanner listeners this won't be an issue, they just leave the tone..

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