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This repeater is located between Houma and Thibodaux, LA, NNW of Houma
Located just off of the Bayou Blue Bypass Road in Gray, LA, between Houma and Thibodaux near LA-24, this is the primary 2 meter repeater for northern Terrebonne and northern Lafourche Parishes.
The antenna is a DB224 mounted at the 325 foot level. The RF deck produces 25w RF. Chances are if you can hear this repeater, you can get into it. Give it a try.
Live telemetry data for our system (Battery Bank Voltage and Room Temperature) can be found on the Comment line on THIS LINK per the APRS station KK5CM-3. Our thanks go to Craig, KK5CM!
ABOVE: Estimated coverage map of 147.390+ Gray, LA repeater running full power (50 watts output)
BELOW: Tour of our repeater in Gray, LA
147.300/147.900 MHz (+600 KHz R/T offset)
CTCSS TONE 114.8 in, 114.8 out
FM Analog and Yaesu System Fusion (Auto In-Auto Out), including Wires-X
Theriot, LA
This repeater is located in Theriot on Bayou DuLarge south of Houma, LA.
The repeater hardware utilizes the Yaesu
System Fusion DR1X and a
Henry Amplifier with approximately 75 watts output at 18
watts in.
The output
includes simple analog (tone 114.8 input and output) and C4FM digital.
This System Fusion repeater is in the Auto-In, Auto-Out
mode with
Wires-X activated, which is defaulted to
Louisiana's Digital Wide Area Network,
DWARN,
Room #40967.
The antenna is a Commscope
DB224
mounted on the northeast arm of the
candelabra at 550 feet. The coverage area is nothing short of
phenomenal. We've received lots of great signal
reports from Laplace, Prairieville,
and New
Orleans-- all places that haven't heard this repeater in
years!!!!
Just like our Gray, LA repeater, telemetry data for this
repeater system (Battery Bank Voltage
and Room Temperature) can be found on the
Comment line onn
THIS
LINK per the APRS station KK5CM-1. Once again, cudos to Craig,
KK5CM!!!
ABOVE: Estimated coverage map of 147.300+ Theriot, LA repeater running full power analog mode (75 watts output).
Note: Coverage is estimated to have a 20% improvement in the digital mode.
BELOW: Video of our original repeater installed in Theiot. This "homebrew" Motorola unit was the workhorse for the club for decades untill replaced in 2014.
147.330/147.930 MHz (+600 KHz R/T offset)
CTCSS TONE 114.8 in, 114.8 out
FM Analog Only
Houma, LA
This repeater is located at the Chabert Hospital at 1978 Industrial Blvd in southeastern Houma, LA near the Houma Airbase.
The RF Deck is a Yaseu System Fusion DR-1X with an output of 18 watts running in simple FM Analog mode only. The antenna is a DB-224 mounted on a Rohn-25 tower atop the six story building.
There is no need for battery back-up (or even telemetry) at this location as we have access to the hospital generator power and cooling systems.
This repeater provides the Houma community with additional emergency coverage in disaster situations.
ABOVE: Estimated Coverage map of the 147.330 repeater on Chabert Hospital in southeastern Houma, LA
ABOVE: Photo of Chabert Hospital in eastern Houma, LA
444.500/449.500 MHz (+5 MHz R/T offset)
CTCSS TONE 114.8 in, 114.8 out
FM Analog and Yaesu System Fusion (Auto In-Auto Out) (NO Wires-x)
Bayou Cane, LA
ABOVE: Coverage map for 444.500 in Bayou Cane, LA. Our actual mobile tests indicate coverage at approximately an eight mile radius on C4FM Digital.
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