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Little About N2MKT

Im 40 years wiser and Ive been licensed since 1991. I took one of the first no code licenses and got my 5 wpm a short time after,and since now have upgraded to Extra.Im active in all aspects of the radio art. I am a member of the ARRL,the Drumlins Amateur Radio Club, Wayne RACES.

I am the trustee for WA2AAZ and the Repeater chairman for DARC 146.685/ 444.750/146.745 Repeaters.  I enjoy working contests especially the jan/june VHF Contests.

I have a Masters in Business, a Bachelors in Technology Management and my AAAS in Electronincs. Im employed as a Project Manager. 

I have been working on many different EMComm courses and trainings. I am a VE and typically help out with licensing during hamfests. I am also intrested in hot rods as I own a 36 chevy truck and a 69 Olds Cutlass. 

                                           

 

Microwaves

 

I`m active on all bands and modes from 160m to 10GHZ and presently working on equipment for the GHZ range.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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My current setup:( many updates Spring 2015)

                                                   

160m-6m: Icom 7300 (nice RIG!!)  and  Yaesu FT-847 (for VHF and ALE) running into Ameritron ALS-1306 Solid State AMP 1200 watts  MFJ998 Tuner into hygain tribander and a 160-10m vertical, 7el Hygain beam on 6m

80-10m: Kenwood TS-120  as a back up rig 

2m: FT-847  Runnning into Home brew SS amp   200watts  into a 19el cushcraft boomer horizontal and a comet vertical, and 10 el cushcraft vertical beam 

220mhz   Elecraft transverter  25watts into 11el  M2 boomer ( working on ldmos 1kw amp)

432Mhz:  FT-847  running into Mirage amp 100watts  into 2-15el phased beams  

446mhz:  15el cushcraft vertical cross polarized

902Mhz:  DEM Transverter  10watts into 2- 19el  phased beams  

1296MHZ: Transverter into 20watt brick amp into diamond vertical and a 30 el loop beam 

2304 Mhz: Xverter into 10watt TWT parabolic dish

3456 MHz: Xverter into 30watt Stealth amp parabolic dish

5706 MHZ: Xverter into Mini Circuit 1w   parabolic dish

10Ghz: Transverter FM only parbolic dish ( working on getting an amp) 

 

Packet Setup:  Using a set of vhf duplexers to feed both APRS on 144.390 and mailbox  N2MKT-1 on 144.950

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Pictures of N2MKT Towers

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This is the South Tower next to the house :

top is 2- dual banders   1 is 2m/440  12dbi   the other is 440/1296mhz, center is a lightning rod. 

middle is phased 432 horizontal,  phased 903mhz,  446vertical, and loop 1296 beam , 2m bean for packet and aprs w a duplexer

bottom is a 20m-15m-10m tribander

 

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The New North Tower that I got from KC8BOL, Ohio ...

top is 2 meter 19el

middle is 220 10 el

bottom is 6m 7el

 

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Mobile Rigs:

Icom-7000  with YT-100 ATU  into dualbander 2m/440 and a 20m Hamstick good for 40m-10m.

Icom-T90A  HT quad bander 

Icom-207H dualbander  into TPL amp 125 watts into vertical cushcraft beam 

Icom-31A   uhf  dstar 

Yaesu  Ft-1dr  Dual bander/aprs/ Fusion 

 

 

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N2MKT-R  443.250 PL 110.9  AllStar Repeater Node 41512 -Linked to Echolink-WX Alert System-AutoPatch 

                   Coverage map 

   

Amp: Henry amp  20w in 100 watts out 

Preamp: ARR 18db gain 

Duplexers : Phelps-Dodge BpBR with 1 db loss 

Antenna : Hustler g-440   6dbd with 7/8 hardline 

Interface: URI by DMK engineering 

 

WA2AAZ  146.745 PL 71.9  DARC/Allstar Repeater Node 41524 -Linked to Echolink-

WX Alert System-

   To connect to an ALLSTAR NODE  *3xxxx    TO DISCONNECT *1xxxx   Allstar nodes star with a 2 or 4 (ex.*341512)

    To connect to EchoLink Node    *33xxxxxx  (must be 6 digits)  To disconnect  *13xxxxxx    

 * 55 -To connect to Newsline     To disconnect *56

* 86 -To get Wayne County weather alert   

 *87- Weather Underground -Newark Bell Rd  (Temp, DRirection,Humidity etc)

 *88- WX Forecast for Wayne County for the week. (long Message)

 *551 -Connect 745 to 443.250

 *552- Disconnect 745 to 443.250

  *93 -To get Enable Parrot mode 

  *94-To get Disable Parrot mode 

   *50- Force ID

  *81-To get the time 

  *6-Autopatch up     (*6-then telephone number)

   *0-Autopatch down 

WIP 

 

AllSTAR is very flexible and runs under Linux, and is based on a PBX system!!

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N2MKT  446.150  DSTAR Repeater -Typically Linked to REF020-Northeast Reflector

 

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Threat Monitoring ;

(wx,space,cyber,power grid)

 

Propagation Reports

Live Flight Data 

   

 

 

 

 

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