While it may have been a while since we have posted what we have been up to at W8CMN we haven’t been relaxing or hibernating. Let this post be the “First Quarter 2023” W8CMN Network report. It will cover items related to our grant project and unrelated to the grant. Nothing will be in a …
Category: Mi5
New Mi5 Site Pinconning Online
Happy New Year from all of us here at W8CMN, but we just couldn’t let the year end without a bang so Jeff and Paul went on Saturday, December 31st to install the new Mi5 Pinconning DMR repeater at our new site. The repeater is on 444.6250+ or the same pair as our BYN repeater. …
Christmas came early with new Mi5 and Mi6 sites online – 2022-12-12
It was cold and snowy this past Saturday with Sunday being just plain cold but the teams assembled and accomplished a lot. Saturday we all gathered at the new Midland tower site which is just southwest of the city of Midland. When the crews had finished for the day they installed three x 2’ Dishes, …
2022 November/October Project Update
Apologies for the lack of posting the past few weeks but we haven’t been idle. Going to give a post here on the items that we have completed at a number of existing and new sites on the network. The snow and cold haven’t stopped us, but weather delays have already hampered some plans a …
Mi5 HAK Site Online
We have some news about our northern Mi5 Network. With the help of the guys at Ccecpsco we have moved the equipment for Stutsmanville to the Hackleburg site which is in southern Cheboygan county east of I75 / Indian River. The repeater is currently running at 500′ AGL at the site on the same pair …