June 1st 2025 will be the last information net of the season. Please check in to hear what the summer will bring for the repeater. Everyone have a great summer and we will look forward to hear you on the repeater during that time. Keep checking back here for any more updates.

All, 

As some know we had a somewhat major repeater failure this week.  Our backup repeater served its purpose for sure.  The repeater in the last couple weeks has intermittently failed without us being able to pinpoint the issue until yesterday 4-24.  I made an unprepared trip up Wednesday and found that I was able to key the repeater and hear it but nobody could.  So being I wasn’t really prepared to be doing any technical test I put the backup repeater back in service and planned to comeback the next day better prepared.  I was accompanied by Alex KD6VPH and we tested the output power of the repeater and found it was basically nonexistent.  This pointed us in the direction that the exciter was working but not the PA final amplifier.  After a little research this is about the only failure in the Kenwood TKR-750 repeaters.  When we opened it up we found that one of the PA final transistors connections had heated up and desoldered itself (see picture). We will try and clean and resolder it and test it for proper operation and go from there.

Sale List

Icom IC-781 HF radio $1000 OBO

Icom IC-R7000 Receiver $300 OBO

Yaesu FL-2100B HF amp $800 OBO

Commscope CNT-400 coax $0.50 per foot

For specs copy paste link below

https://www.andrew.com/globalassets/digizuite/110932-p360-cnt-400-external.pdf

2 rolls 100 feet

2 rolls 15 feet

1 roll 38 feet

1 roll 66 feet

1 roll 98 feet

If interested in any of these items, please contact Jeremy AG7WT by clicking here.

SEA-PAC 2025, the ARRL Northwestern Division Convention, is open for
registration at www.seapac.org! This year’s theme is “Be Radio Active.”
Join us May 30 to June 1, 2025 in beautiful Seaside, Oregon. Gordon West
will be our keynote speaker at this year’s banquet, and will offer his
popular Instructor Forum. Come for the exhibitors, flea market tables,
Radios on the Beach, opportunities to win prizes, and our Friday evening
reception where you can meet and mingle with other hams, including ARRL
leaders.

For more information, see the SEA-PAC website, www.seapac.org. See you
at SEA-PAC!

Numerous hamfairs are listed here including Puyallup:
Pacific Northwest Hamfairs