The Keene UHF Repeater on 443.800 + requires a PL of 141.3Hz for access. The repeater is an open system, although the autopatch is closed. It is located on the WEKW TV tower which overlooks downtown Keene from about 8 miles NorthWest of the City, in the Southwestern part of NH in Cheshire County, which is also referred to as "The Monadnock Region". The tower is on a ridge of mountains that also overlook the Connecticut River Valley allowing the repeater to cover portions of 4 States including; New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass and some of Connecticut.
WA1ZYX/R KEENE first went on the air in April of 1988 - I think, maybe it was '87, anyway, at that time I was running a modified GE Mastr Pro mobile radio. I then upgraded to a Mastr Pro Base station which was replaced a couple years later with a Motorola Micor unified chassis base station. (Those Final tubes for the Mastr Pro were expensive, and hard to find!) Sometime in Nov of '97, we switched from using a single Celwave Super StationMaster to a 4 channel Wacom Combiner. We're now using the StationMaster as the receive antenna at an overall elevation of about 1960' AMSL. This antenna is at the very top of the tower. The Transmit antenna is a DB Products DB-420 folded dipole array located less than 50 below the StationMaster.
Both antennas are side mounted and fed with about 500' of 7/8" Andrews Heliax.
The repeater is controlled by an 7K controller which went on-line May 1, 1999, and a Connect Systems Autopatch controller so we can make phone calls. A Hamtronics PreAmp helps perk up the Micor's hearing a little. The repeater puts out about 75 watts into the combiner.
Listen to one of the Repeater Voice ID's here. This is a WAV file of one of about a dozen different ID's that rotate.
The month of August '99 was a busy month while I was busy interfacing a GE Phoenix-SX UHF remote base to the repeater so that we can now do linking to Cannon, Saddleback, Kearsarge and a dozen or so others. I had to do some modifications to the Phoenix to allow for remote control of the frequencies.
If you're interested in learning how to modify your Phoenix-SX, I have written a Phoenix-SX Mods page.
Also, if you want to read about the complete History of the UHF Keene Repeater check this out.
By looking at the above picture, if you see what resembles a person swinging around on the outside of the tower, it is. We had a tower crew at the site installing antennas for one of the local FM's.

I also own and operate several UHF Amateur Repeaters that are scattered around the State of New Hampshire, and "back in the day" had a TheNet Packet node. It's partially still there, but not very active and most of the links are gone now.
In fact, the user port antenna for the SWNH/SWNHU/NHDX/KEENE TheNet node stacks is at the 300 foot level of the tower. There are currently 9 TNC's, with radios operating on 3 bands with baud rates up to 9600 at the site, however, only a couple still operate. See the SWNH page for more info.

WA1ZYX/R number 2 is located on Saddleback Mountain on NHPTV's main CH-11 Tower in the town of Deerfield. This is not too far from the Coast of NH. The repeater itself is an Icom RP-3010 going to a set of Wacom duplexers, through about 500' of Andrews 7/8 Heliax to a Celwave Super Stationmaster which is side mounted almost to the top of the Main CH-11 TV tower. Saddleback is 449.45 - and requires a PL of 123.0Hz.

WA1ZYX/R number 3 lives on the summit of Cannon Mountain at the top of Franconia Notch, home of where the famous Old Man of the Mountain used to live, and the Arial Tramway.
The Cannon Machine is also an Icom RP-3010, going to another set of Wacom duplexers through about 40 feet of Andrews 1/2" Heliax to a brand new (9/98) DB-404 antenna which is top mounted on the NHPTV microwave tower. The ground elevation at the summit is 4380 feet.
Cannon is 449.875 - and also requires a PL of 123.0Hz for access.
The Cannon repeater is basically a "twin" to the Saddleback repeater. If you're interested in looking at a few more picture of this site, take a look at the new Cannon Repeater Site page.

WA1ZYX/R number 4 is a lo-band 6-meter machine on 53.73 and requires a tone of 141.3. This machine is a "split site" repeater that has it's receiver at the same site as 443.8 with the transmitter located on Hyland Hill, at the same site across the valley as the local 2m machine that belongs to the club - 146.805.

WA1ZYX/R number 5 is the newest member of the zedyx family and was put on the air on January 7, 2006, on the summit of Temple Mountain. This repeater provides outstanding coverage of the Manchester, Nashua areas as well as RT2 and 495 in Massachusetts.

I also have strong ties to another machine located on Mt Kearsarge, in the Town of Warner, NH.
Mt Kearsarge produces some very nasty weather conditions, and the icing that takes place in the winter time is really quite a sight! Actually Cannon is quite spectacular too. Take a look and you'll see what I mean. I'll post a few more pictures of all the sites when I get a chance. If you'd like to see some of the pictures that I took of Mt Kearsarge right after a pretty good ice storm, make sure you look at the Winter Wonderland page. It really is very beautiful!
All of the ZedYX repeaters are normally configured as "stand alone", and they are all open. (Occasionally, they are linked to each other, but I really don't see the point in tying up an entire state with two stations talking in the same town. Having the ability to link to the others makes much more sense to me.)

Motorcycle Chase 
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Something else that I'm very proud of is that I was selected to work as a Police Officer for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games back in February of 2002. 

Olympics Bound 

One more job that I finally gave up after 19 years, was dispatching for the New Hampshire State Police at Troop-C in Keene. That was a fun job, having started that at Troop-F, up north, but decided to give it up for a couple reasons.... One was that I really no longer had the time to devote to it, and was really only getting called for overnights and at times that I was already working someplace else -- hard to believe as that is... and their new CAD system (if you can call it that) really SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

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