UHF 7 & 2 reception question

Post by **terryhaynes** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:27 pm

Hi guys,

I'm at Runcorn and receive vhq7 loud and clear from Mt Glorious but channel 2 which is on Cootha I can just hear if I'm lucky. How is this so if I'm miles closer to vhq7 than ch 2?

Terry Haynes

Post by **Comint** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:32 pm

terryhaynes wrote:Hi guys,

I'm at Runcorn and receive vhq7 loud and clear from Mt Glorious but channel 2 which is on Cootha I can just hear if I'm lucky. How is this so if I'm miles closer to vhq7 than ch 2?

Terry Haynes

Channel 2 has some special Clauses on their Licence, that stipulates they will not cause interference to one of the other Licences on the same Site.

Perhaps they have to reduce the Tx Power, to comply with this Clause.

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Comint

Post by **res** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:37 pm

and congrats to the new owners of hell, errrr, i mean vhq07, may you soon regret your decision

Post by **Phantom** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:29 pm

Yeh, they will soon find out how expensive it is to replace the finals on the repeater unless they wind it right down...

Maybe the ACMA should have a special clause on the VHQ7 repeater as well.... *wink*

Post by **res** » Tue Jan 28, 2014 4:39 pm

Phantom wrote:Yeh, they will soon find out how expensive it is to replace the finals on the repeater unless they wind it right down...

Maybe the ACMA should have a special clause on the VHQ7 repeater as well.... *wink*

lol yes, they seem to have increased the timeout to a somewhat lengthy period going by last friday nights "entertainment"

Must admit, I thought about giving Mark an offer on buying 6, and removing the timeout entirely, just to screw over that senile old fool hayden who times it out overnight, every night.

Post by **brianWE** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:15 pm

I feel SOOOO deprived.
I don't get any of that entertainment here in the NSW Northern Rivers!!!

Very light radio traffic and plenty of opportunity for the boring farmers and their families to discuss what brand of butter to buy at the super market. And the current drought/flood/ earthquake.
All of the interesting people I used to talk to when I lived in Lismore seem to have died....or worse...moved to amateur bands.
Even the Council road workers don't seem to choke the channels with where they surfed at the weekend.
Just not enough of them, I suppose..

The only real entertainment is on Ch 29..if you are close to the highway.
Reliable!

Post by **erikn** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:06 am

brianWE wrote:

I feel SOOOO deprived.
I don't get any of that entertainment here in the NSW Northern Rivers!!!

Very light radio traffic and plenty of opportunity for the boring farmers and their families to discuss what brand of butter to buy at the super market. And the current drought/flood/ earthquake.
All of the interesting people I used to talk to when I lived in Lismore seem to have died....or worse...moved to amateur bands.
Even the Council road workers don't seem to choke the channels with where they surfed at the weekend.
Just not enough of them, I suppose..

The only real entertainment is on Ch 29..if you are close to the highway.
Reliable!

I get a good laugh out of the 'Home of the Button Pushers' sometimes, really depends if you hear the regulars like Barry Muller and 'Gravel' advertising his big 'appendage' shall we say

Also Ch 40 is good fun sometimes too

Post by **res** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:52 am

erikn wrote:
brianWE wrote:

I feel SOOOO deprived.
I don't get any of that entertainment here in the NSW Northern Rivers!!!

Very light radio traffic and plenty of opportunity for the boring farmers and their families to discuss what brand of butter to buy at the super market. And the current drought/flood/ earthquake.
All of the interesting people I used to talk to when I lived in Lismore seem to have died....or worse...moved to amateur bands.
Even the Council road workers don't seem to choke the channels with where they surfed at the weekend.
Just not enough of them, I suppose..

The only real entertainment is on Ch 29..if you are close to the highway.
Reliable!
I get a good laugh out of the 'Home of the Button Pushers' sometimes, really depends if you hear the regulars like Barry Muller and 'Gravel' advertising his big 'appendage' shall we say
Also Ch 40 is good fun sometimes too

muller.... i must been lucky, before last friday night (only really turn on whilst i'm on the road fri/sat nights) I havnt heard that tosser in over 20 years! I gotta admit tho, the "song" someone did about him hahahaha, laugh, i couldnt stop!

he must miss his mates Leo and Doug the security guy from those days, he seemed to listen to them when told to STFU

He always brings shit upon himself, i mean what do you expect when you play music (if you can call it that
) for 3 hours straight...

40 has been real quiet lately on fri/say nights on north coast highway once u get north of carseldine...

I did note bit of ducting around past few weekends, so might have a bit to do with it.

Post by **_Art_** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 3:07 pm

It was listening to Ch7 (UHF CB Mt Glorious repeater) for a single night that convinced me to get into amateur radio.
My first & only transmission "Can I have a radio check please" A: "You're not working &$@?"... followed by some listening
which quickly convinced me the repeater could never be relied upon as any communications medium.
They should wind their timeout and output power down to zero.

Post by **youngn** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:09 pm

_Art_ wrote:It was listening to Ch7 (UHF CB Mt Glorious repeater) for a single night that convinced me to get into amateur radio.
My first & only transmission "Can I have a radio check please" A: "You're not working &$@?"... followed by some listening
which quickly convinced me the repeater could never be relied upon as any communications medium.
They should wind their timeout and output power down to zero.

Welcome to the 'glorious' world of VHQ07

Post by **ziggybyrne** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 7:50 pm

I believe channel 2 is only using a single folded dipole antenna. This would explain the limited range compared to channel 7.

Cheers

Post by **res** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:17 pm

ziggybyrne wrote:I believe channel 2 is only using a single folded dipole antenna. This would explain the limited range compared to channel 7.

Cheers

dunno bout that, on bribie, 2 is more reliable than 7.. and less fsckwits

tho it does have its dead spots on the highway from carseldine...

needs relocating to top of one of the new skytowers in bris city, only need a single dipole there to saturate city and cover north of caboolture, south of beenleigh and west tyo ippy... shit I had a 12db at redhill few year back and got saturate to caboolture, hell hand helds on bribie and moreton, and mobiles out to beaudesert, and mobiles just past redbank plains, and those friggin buildings are massivley higher than I was

mt coot-tha and mt cotton are so over rated yet poor performers

Post by **rapps_101** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:59 pm

I'd love to set up my own (without a duplexer, I'm poor) but I'll be stuffed if I know who to ask to get permission to put it somewhere!

Post by **Phantom** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:39 pm

... And plenty of $$$ to site rentals, licensing, repeater, coax, antennas and power.
Sure it a lot of $$$ to folk out for no return or to find your equipment thrashed due to all the idiots on the chook band who run more than 5W and love attempting to time out the repeater playing music 24/7

Post by **res** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:47 pm

Thats why I love the idea of removing the timeout - technically it is, or was, a breach of licence terms, you used to have one.

Thoug must say whatever they did to 7 when it "broke" a few weeks back, its returned as shit, its useless on much of the Bruce highway, oh sures its there- mostly, but you can hold a convo, you cant even here it properly most times, and on Bribie, its next to gone, fark, I get kilcoy 3 on Bribie rather well on passage side, 5-10 times better than 7 where 7's completely gone.

Also things like that wont break if people who have NFI what they are doing keep the fsck away from it.

that said, wonder when 8 will be back on air, used to rely on it, now its gone...

Post by **fire_rescue** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:38 pm

8 has a new owner last i read it was up for sale on fb, 4 Caloundra was moving to a higher spot not sure what's going on there

Post by **res** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:15 pm

yah, I know who the new owner is, he's had it for a while now too, I did hear he was looking to move it, maybe aint found a good enough site yet, if he's reading this, he might like to comment

?

Post by **Phantom** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:54 pm

Well let hope the new owner abides by the licence conditions and keeps the time out on there.

Post by **res** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:30 am

Phantom wrote:Well let hope the new owner abides by the licence conditions and keeps the time out on there.

I disagree, look at the far on 7 now with their ability to stop ppl talking by timing it out for hours on end since that capability has been taken away from them. I applaud the move.

Infact I wonder if 6 lost its timeout too, since that senile old fool (name) at toorbul used to time it out every night just so he wouldnt miss anything, its been on 24/7 for ages now.. well either that or the ACMA finally did something about him

Post by **fire_rescue** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:15 am

res wrote:
Phantom wrote:Well let hope the new owner abides by the licence conditions and keeps the time out on there.
I disagree, look at the far fewer on 7 now with their ability to stop ppl talking by timing it out for hours on end since that capability has been taken away from them. I applaud the move.

Infact I wonder if 6 lost its timeout too, since that senile old fool at used to time it out every night just so he wouldnt miss anything, its been on 24/7 for ages now.. well either that or the ACMA finally did something about him

I hope something was done about him, that bloke loved picking on people and spreading so much garbage and harassing, I myself copped along side few others even crabman RIP , apparently had a hardcore setup aswell.

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