VE3NRS - St. Catharines
| Location: | Thorold Water Tower. 600 Feet ASL. |
| Sponsor: | City of St. Catharines |
| Custodian: | VA3UL |
| System Hardware: | GE/Ericsson Master II - Output = 60 Watts. GE 3 Station Voter Pacific Research R1300 Controller Phone Patch F.A.T. Ready UPS Backup Sinclair Duplexer Sinclair 210-C4 Antenna |
| Voter: | A voting receiver is located at E L Crossley Seconday School in Fonthill (approx. 980 Feet ASL). |
| Frequency: | Input: 147.840 MHz FM (CTCSS 107.2 Hz) Output: 147.240 MHz FM (CTCSS 107.2 Hz) |
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VE3NRS - News
VE3NRS Phone Patch Discontinued
Effective Jan 01, 2010, the phone patch on VE3NRS was discontinued because we're using a new repeater controller and to advance cost cutting measures.
de Peter VE3HM
VE3NRS Phone Patch Now Open
Repeater VE3NRS now has an open phone patch for all amateurs in the Niagara Region and beyond to access. After identifying with your call sign that you wish to use the phone patch, press *6, wait for the dial tone and dial your number. Note, long distance has been disabled. To complete your call, press #6 and identify with your call sign that you are clear of the phone patch. Enjoy.
de Peter, VA3WET
April 29th, 2007
VE3NRS Repeater Damaged By Ice Storm
The ice storm has caused some damage to VE3NRS.
For those of you who are not aware, VE3NRS is a voting repeater. It listens at both E.L. Crossly in Fonthilll and in Thorold. It decides the best audio from both so that is what you hear. One of the received signals is sent to the tx site via a cross-band repeater. It listens to 147.840 and links it via uhf to Thorold.
The ice build up was so severe in Fonthill, the yagi detuned dramatically causing some damage to the cross-band repeater. It also seems that one of the voters has become intermittent. The 28 volt inverter power supply for the voter portion of the repeater failed.
VE3NRS is now up and running.
Dave, VA3UL
January 23rd, 2007
