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2m amateur repeater at Cataby

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Hi all,

The west australian repeater group (WARG) has a 2m repeater located at Cataby, for those of you who don't know. It's about 170km north of Perth and is located on top of Yandan Hill, about 2km south of the Ampol servo in Cataby (aka middle of nowhere!)

I went up there in the trusty work car the other day, (I work nearby) and took some photo's with my phone. Just thought some of you may be interested to see what a repeater site looks like.

It was quite scary going up in a 2WD ute, a 4WD is absolutely on the cards next time!

The whole thing is solar powered. There is no mains power for a long way.

It's also been discussed that there's a possibility of linking the Cataby repeater back to a Perth repeater in the near future. It was set up like this in the past but for some reason it was taken down. (Maybe due to failure of equipment, Gavin knows more!)

Anyway, the quality is not all that great, but here's the piccies!

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Does it get much use? The linking is a good idea, then you could hear my dulcet tones on the way to work.
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Post by Bonez »

No it doesn't get much use. There are a few local stations up there in surrounding towns, and there's quite a few people in the northern suburbs of Perth who can access it. I guess it gets a little bit of passing traffic as well.

What do you mean by dulcet tones?
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dul·cet
adj.

a. Pleasing to the ear; melodious.
b. Having a soothing, agreeable quality.

My interesting conversations!

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The Green Bastard wrote:dul·cet
adj.

a. Pleasing to the ear; melodious.
b. Having a soothing, agreeable quality.

My interesting conversations!

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Cataby repeater coming into Perth strong tonight. Some reporting 20+, getting 4 here. Keyed it using 5w
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VK6RCT coming in again this arvo. S4 here.
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