funds and hardware left at the end of each milestone will be rolled over toward the next milestone.
Milestone 1 - N3VEM Repeater Rebuild - Completed!
This milestone was officially checked off as complete in September of 2024. We raised enough in cash and donated equipment to get the machine repaired and back on the air, in pretty much it’s original state.
Milestone 2 - KJ7OMO Repeater Rebuild - In Progress
KJ7OMO runs the pride radio network. She did have a basic repeater on the air on 444.900 (+5) pl 110.9, but it is currently offline. The second major milestone for this project, and the one currently under way, is gathering the equipment and funds to help get this machine back on the air. We are currently building this new repeater around a pair of Kenwood Commercial mobile radios, a notch-type duplexer, and a Raspberry Pi running ASL3 as the controller. Much of the core equipment is already in hand, and construction is under way, but there will still be a couple hundred dollars worth of misc. hardware, connectors, coax, etc. to source as we continue the build.
Milestone 3 - Get the next machine on the air!
Next up will be building the next machine, and gathering all the equipment needed to get it in service, so that we can add a 3rd location to the project, hopefully some time in 2025. I am currently leaning towards housing this machine somewhere that I have physical access to because this would then feed into…
Milestone 4 - Get ANOTHER machine on the air!
We currently have a pair of matching machines in inventory, so milestones 4 is likely to be a mirror of what we build for milestone 3, but housed somewhere completely different. If you think you’d like to host a machine for us, please let me know! I’m currently hoping to start work on milestone 4 sometime in the second half of 2025.