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Bald Eagle Repeater Association History<\/big><\/big><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pre 1979:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The associations roots began when Jay Kennedy, KN3SAS<\/span> organized a local group of two meter ham radio operators to provide each member with auto patch privileges on 146.94<\/span> MHz.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Jay’s idea was to have ten members at a cost of $20.00 per member to support the costs. The 146.34 \/ 94 repeater was a VHF engineering repeater<\/span>, which was located at different sites and eventually ended up at it’s present site which was owned by the Bald Eagle VHF Society<\/span>, located on Skyline Drive atop the Bald Eagle Mountain in South Williamsport, PA.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 When Jay decided to exit the two meter repeater activity Robert Shearer, N3AFX<\/span> became the repeater Trustee. Eventually meetings were held at Don Cook’s, W3JVP<\/span> store on Market Street in Williamsport.<\/span><\/p>\n

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March 18, 1979:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0The semi organized club struck an agreement with Mark Cohen<\/span> to buy the VHF engineering repeater from him. At this same time an aluminum 50 foot tower was erected. A home made station master type antenna was used with wacom duplexers. The club had decided on calling itself the Bald Eagle Repeater Association<\/span> and began soliciting membership.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Melvin Bennett, KC3EH<\/span> was elected the first club President. John Cooper, WB3JFV<\/span> was elected treasurer and Ken Frey, WB3HOI<\/span> elected secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n

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July 17,1980:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The club received coordination approval to move the repeater frequency to 147.09 \/ 69 MHz.<\/span><\/p>\n

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November 24,1980:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The clubs sister repeater received coordination approval for 145.49 \/ 89 MHz. This also was a VHF engineering repeater. <\/span>Both repeaters have since been upgraded to Motorola Micor units with Micro Computer Concepts RC-1000 controllers.\u00a0 Both repeaters have auto patch capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 14, 1987:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The club bought its first Celwave Station Master Antenna.<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 1999:<\/span>
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The antenna was replaced by a second Celwave Station Master antenna.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Over the years the club paid yearly dues to the Bald Eagle VHF Society thus allowing repeater trustee Robert Shearer, N3AFX<\/span> access to their building.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Eventually the VHF Society gave the building to the repeater association who in turn assumed the state lease. <\/span>Robert Shearer, N3AFX<\/span> was the First repeater trustee since the clubs inception.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bald Eagle Repeater Association History   Pre 1979: \u00a0 \u00a0 The associations roots began when Jay Kennedy, KN3SAS organized a local group of two meter ham radio operators to provide each member with auto patch privileges on 146.94 MHz. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Jay’s idea was to have ten members at a cost of $20.00 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/403"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb3hll.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}