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The 145.47 was Tim's
first repeater, which went on the air for the first time on September
17, 1981. The picture you see here is the actual 145.47 repeater
when it was located at Tim's home, before it went to its first location
atop View Park Hill (the present 145.17 site) in November 1981.
The equipment you see is General Electric "Progress Line" tube -type
equipment. The repeater was a "prog-line" receiver and transmitter with
a home-brew control board and diode-matrix ID'er. From View Park,
it has been located on House Mountain, Bluff Mountain (near where
146.94 is now), and "Top-of the-World" (the present 146.625
site). After the GE progress line equipment was retired, the 145.47 repeater
sported a GE Master Pro solid state receiver and a Motorola VHF exciter/PA
combination. In 2005, Tim took the repeater off the now 146.625 site and
completely rebuilt the repeater, using a factory-stock GE Mastr II repeater
that you see in the above pictures. Here's a link to the NEW 145.47
history page! Click here.
After the rebuild....
and after receiving the SERA coordination, Tim was finally able
to relocate the 145.470 machine to its long awaited home on top of
Cross Mountain. For a long time, it has been obvious that this location
was perfect for a repeater. As a matter of fact, Tim originally
did attempt to locate a machine there back in the 1980's, but for one
reason or another it just wasn't to be. Now however, that the
dream has finally been fulfilled.
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but is certainly in a Rugged area of East Tennessee
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