Police Amateur Radio Team
(P.A.R.T.)
Member
Guide to WB1GOF 146.955/442.45 Repeater
s
(03-July-2003)
General Stuff:
·
The
repeaters (442.45/146.955) are located at the water tower
at Prospect Hill in Westford. Antennas are a Diamond F-23
on 146, and an Austin station master on 440. The antenna
elevation is 579 feet/AMSL. The exact location is N42.34.36
W71.26.33. Transmitters are located in the Cingular cell
site. We are running 70 watts on 146 and 10 watts on 440.
·
Since the
controllers on both repeaters are now identical most
functions and commands are now identical.
·
On 146.955 Mhz. Set your CTCSS encoder and decoder (if
desired) to 74.4 Hz.
·
On 442.45 Mhz. Set your CTCSS encoder and decoder (if
desired) to 88.5 Hz.
·
Repeater ID is
set at 9.5 minutes, use it as your guide for your
identification, when you hear the repeater ID, then you
should ID and your station and the WB1GOF will always meet
the FCC requirement of 10 minutes between ID.
·
Press DTMF digit 9 for date and time in
speech,
8 for 24-Hr Time only.
Autopatch
Info:
·
PART has only
one phone line at the site, so if the patch is in use on
the 442.45 repeater you cannot use the line on 146.955
until the line becomes available. We have not interfaced
busy detect logic to the controllers so it is possible to
dial into another call, patches are infrequent but you
should check for use on the other repeater if you can.
·
Users make
autopatches by entering 3 digit “speed dial codes”. Codes
are identical on the two repeaters.
·
The
patch operates in half duplex mode with the radio side as
supervisory. This means you can interrupt them from the
radio side but they cannot do that from the phone line
side. If someone on the phone uses foul language just
key-up, as soon as you begin to transmit the phone line is
muted on the repeater. Send the # (pound) key to hang up
the call.
·
The
patch hang up code is # (pound sign).
·
Dial tone and
DTMF Tones sent to the phone are muted on the air for
privacy reasons.
·
Patch time-out
timer is 6 minutes. Time-out warning message is 4 tones (2
up, 2 down).
·
Patch indicates
that it is dialing by sending 4 beeps.
·
Control OPS can
enable single shot dialed patches for the convenience of
users with no assigned speed dial. It works like this:
Control OP enters password bypass code, user then enters 7
digit phone number, patch is cleared with pound sign and
bypass is also cleared. Only 10 digit local calls or 1-800
calls will be accepted, all long distance numbers are
rejected unless the phone number has been entered in the
controller dialing exception table at the repeater site (in
advance).
The following AutoPatch Macros have been entered:
910
-
Westford Police Business Line
911
-
Mass State Police Concord
912
-
Littleton Police Dept.
913
-
Acton Police Dept.
914
-
Lowell Police Dept.
915
-
Tynsboro Police Dept.
916
-
Groton Police Dept.
917
-
Chelmsford Police Dept.
918
-
Carlisle Police Dept.
920
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Open
921
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Westford Fire – other bus line
922
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Westford Highway Dept
923
-
Westford Town Mgr.
924
-
Westford Water Dept.
710
-
Terry Stader - KA8SCP (CTL OP)
711
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Ernie Bauer - N1AEW (CTL OP)
713
-
Dave Welsh – WI1R (CTL OP/Trustee)
714
-
John Barnwell – KB1HMQ
715
-
Dick Ferry – AB1A
716
-
Steve Telsey – N1BDA
717
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Bo Budinger – WA1QYM
718
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Meyer Franklin – KD1MG
719
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Jim David – N1HZG
720
-
Bob Bellville – W1OJP
721
-
AAA – Auto Club
722
-
Allison Parent – KB1GMX
723
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Eric Pfeifer – N1JUR
725
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Russ (Earl) Russell – WR1Y
727
-
Dan Diagneault – N1LLG
728
-
Alex Hastie – W1PJL
729
-
Open
730
-
Ron Reder – KA1KCU (CTL OP)
732
-
Bob Snyder – W1RS
733
-
Chauncey Chu – K1OPE
735
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David Willard – W1EO (CTL OP)
736
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Art Walsh #1 – AA1HO
737
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Art Walsh #2 – AA1HO
738
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Alan Hicks – KD1DJ
739
-
Always busy, use this to try the patch
740
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John Forrest – WB1HBE
741
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Wayne Johnson – KD1QM
742
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Bill Carney – N1RKB
743
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Zoel Sawyer – AA1HV
744
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Hugh Maguire – N1QGE
745
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Chuck Linsky – K1CL
746
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Walt Murphy - K1LDX
747
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Terry Koen – N1IWF
748
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LRTA Dispatch – For N1SWB
749
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Cary Renault – N1SWB
750
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Hugh Masterman – NC1M
751
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Lowell Taxi – N1SWB
752
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Ken Rolt – KB1FFM
Example:
To test the patch, key xmtr, announce use of autopatch and
your callsign, release PTT and then key xmtr again, press
739, un-key xmtr, hear 4 beeps, hear ringing, hear busy
signal, key xmtr, press # to hang up. You should
announce you are clear of the patch.