GENERAL
Sponsor/Owner.................Amateur Radio Club
Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering
Morgantown, WV 26506
Trustee.......................Mike Palmer, K8LG
Morgantown, WV
Station Maintenance...........Roy Nutter, N8BHI
WVU Dept. of Electrical &
Computer Engineering
Morgantown, WV 26506
Type..........................Open
Input Frequency...............146.16 MHz/449.80 MHz
Output Frequency..............146.76MHz/448.80 MHz
Location......................Top of WVU's Engineering
Sciences building
Morgantown, WV
Elevation of Site.............1100 feet above sea level
Coverage......................Approximately 20 miles radius
RECEIVER......................Motorola Micor (Solid State)
Receiver Sensitivity..........Less than 0.5 microvolt for
20 db quieting; less than 0.35
microvolt EIA Sinad
Receiver Preamp...............None
TRANSMITTER
Exciter.......................Motorola Micor (Solid State)
Exciter Output................0.5 watts
Power Amplifier...............Custom design by WB8ZBA
Power Output..................30 watts
ANTENNA/DUPLEXER
XMIT Antenna..................AEA Isopole, 25ft above
building (1250ft)
RCV Antenna...................AEA Isopole
Receiver Coax.................25ft of Belden 8214
70ft of 7/8inch hardline
1.5ft Heliax
Transmitter Coax..............6ft Heliax
Duplexer......................Homebrew by WVUARC from
July 1972 QST page 23
used as separate ant
cavities
Transmit Cavities.............Three
Receive Cavities..............Three
Cavity notch depth............33 db each
Cavity pass attenuation.......0.5 db each
Transmitter/Duplex coax.......RG-214U
Receiver/Duplex coax..........Beldon 9273 (RG-233)
CONTROLLER
Microprocessor................INTEL 8751
RAM...........................256K
ROM...........................1K
Software......................Assembly Language
Phone Patch...................None
Time out time.................1.9min
Time out reset................On first of two beeps
ID time.......................7.5min
Tail Time.....................3 sec
Watch dog timer...............Hardware reset after 34sec
if CPU problems
EMERGENCY POWER
Type..........................Diesel Generator
Function......................Full transmitter power
after 64sec
GOVERNENCE
Operational...................Trustee and control stations
Financial Support.............WVU Amateur Radio Club
Monongalia Wireless Association
donation from users
Contact.......................Trustee or :
Dr. Roy Nutter
Faculty Advisor, WVUARC
West Virginia University
POB 6104
Morgantown, WV 26506
Office : 304-293-6371 x510
