N4JDW Repeaters
Serving the Coastal Wilmington area

Ham Radio master calendar for Wilmington area

443.075+ 100 PL

Clinton N.C.

This is the 443.075+ 100 PL N4JDW repeater at the tower site in the outside cabinet. It was a Motorola Quantar™, but is now a Kenwood TKR-850 Repeater with plans to move into the building. It has a frequency agile link radio that is on the Raleigh system.

This is the Decibel DB-636 / 6 db gain antenna side mounted on the north side of the tower. The 12 element UHF yagi (under the microwave dish) is up 250 feet pointed to the Raleigh area. The Sampson County tower is located in the Taylor Bridge community south of Clinton. The Linking abilities include other repeaters on the Carolina 440 Link System and the PCRN Backbone.

Here is David, N4JDW beside the 1-5/8 inch feed line that was used on the tower. 

                    The Clinton repeater is located in the Taylors Bridge community off of Hwy 421 South of Clinton on the Sampson County Tower; it was placed in service in 2005.  The Amateur antenna system is at 480 feet on the North side of the tower with an expected coverage of 35 miles out with a mobile. This picture was taken while it was under construction. 

442.075+ 88.5 PL

Leland/Wilmington
N4JDW Repeater

This is the 442.075 and 145.170 Repeater cabinet at the Wilmington tower site.  The 2 meter repeater can be linked on demand.  Both Repeaters are a Kenwood rack mount TKR series.  

Another shot with David, N4JDW. 

David, installing the link antenna pointed to Clinton at the Leland site.

444.675+ 88.5  PL
N4HAJ  Repeater

Jacksonville, NC

This is the 444.675 repeater in the outdoor cabinet. Close up of the 444.675 cabinet pole mounted.

This Paul, (KI4SPM) who host this site and the Porters neck site. This is David, (N4JDW) after a job well done.

This is Doug (N4HAJ) after a long days work, The DB 413 repeater antenna is a 330 feet and the link antenna is at 250 feet.

444.075+ 88.5 PL
N4JDW Repeater and

N4ILM 146.730 VHF Repeater

Porters Neck, NC

Porters Neck 444.075 Repeater and Link Radio also in the rack is

the N4ILM 146.73 repeater and N4JDW 53.33 repeater Porters Neck Tower

N4ILM

444.175+ 88.5 PL

Winabow N.C.

Here is David, (N4JDW) at the site of 444.175 and Paul Magnabosco(AD4HZ) and Paul Knight (W1ILM)installing the new Carolina 440 repeater in Winnabow. A view to the southwest of the tower at 875 feet. The intended coverage area is Brunswick, Bladen, Horry, and Columbus counties, significantly expanding the Carolina 440 UHF Link System coverage from north and west of Wilmington well into northeast South Carolina. I believe the problem with the New Hanover County coverage is strongly related to the position of the Channel 26 and 39 feed lines (6+ inches OD) in the interior of the tower.  Both are inline with the west tower leg and Wilmington, making it difficult for signal to radiate cleanly in the easterly direction.  It is possible that those feed lines will be removed later on if the corresponding analog antennas are removed.  In that event, the coverage on the back side of the antenna will likely improve significantly, but we have the 444.075 at Porters Neck that covers Wilmington and New Hanover very well.

442.000 88.5 PL

Kinston N.C.

This is the Down east hub 442.000 Kenwood repeater and Motorola link radios.

Here is the tower at Kinston. The DB-420 on the left side is the repeater antenna

And the link antenna is the yagi on top pointed to Clinton

444.125+ 91.5  PL
N4HAJ Repeater

Kornegay, NC

This is the Kornegay site just west of Pink Hill, NC and North of 
Kenansville.  The repeater is a Kenwood TK-850 with a CAT-250 
controller in an outside cabinet.  The DB-420 antenna system is on 
top of the tower 486 feet AGL.

When Doug and David went to test the existing antennas to use, this is

what we found when one of the antennas had high SWR (Standing Water Ratio).

444.425+ 88.5  PL
N4HAJ Repeater

Fountain/Farmville, NC

This is the Fountain repeater.  It is a Kenwood TKR-850. This is the Fountain tower
Link radio is a Motorola M-120 with a Cat-200 controller.

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