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On March 30, 2021, TK1BI & TK5EP spent a few hours on our "Punta" site.
A new Procom CXL2 antenna with a gain of 3 dB was installed on the new tower. This one is bigger and more stable than the older one that gave some signs of weakness and showed reduced coverage.

The tower was also earthed and a new connection to the TKNET network has been done. It remains to connect the grouns of the building in order to have equipotentiality of the different earths and to finish laying the cable trays.

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A new version of the USB audio VoIP interface to drive our repeaters has been build by Patrick TK5EP.
It carries a CM119A chip that takes care of the USB communication, the VoIP conversion and the I/O ports.
Read his article on his Web page
Here a 3D view on this interface board.

interface TKNET v4

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IMG 20200222 101341This year, we again needed a lot of work to be QRV for the REF phone contest.
The numerous storms have destroyed all our antennas and the rotator.

The antennas have been repared and the last works have been done friday evening...

Read more: REF contest 2020

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The storms that hit Corsica in november/december 2019 didn't leave any survival chance to our setup !


Many trees are broken and fell on the road, even very large and old ones.
All antennas suffered. The yagi boom bent, 2 elements are broken and flew about 50 meters away, the 40/80m dipole was ripped off.
Half of the weather station is broken and was found in the bush. The anemometer exploded and the weather vane is broken...

In short, there is work in prospect ...

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couverture vhf punta

 

After almost 2 years of stop due to a power failure, our shack is powered again. All our equipments will be restored (weather station, remote station, etc..)


The VHF repeater TK5ZCF is already fully functionnal and linked to our HamNet TKNet network. It is linked to the UHF repeaters of Coti Chiavari and Corte.
A new repeater near Cervioni is also planned.Stay tuned !

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couverture cecu

On november 24, Toussaint TK1BI and Thierry TK1CX have mounted a new repeater on the TKNet on Monte Cecu close to the city of Corte.
This repeater covers the city of Corte and a good part of the T20 road as the map shows. It is connected to the TKNet network and interconnected with the other repeaters.

Callsign : TK1ZAR
Frequency : 430.175 MHz + 9.4 MHz
TCS : 88.5 Hz

This repeater prepared by TK5EP is composed by two SIMOCO PRM3080 transceivers, a KATHREIN K654124 duplexer and interface card developped by the team.

More details can be found on the Web page dedicaced to the TKNet.

 

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