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Since
very long we made the plan to build again a gateway station works between
two independent repeaters, Budapest the capital and the Lake Balaton, Hungary's
most famous resort place, locating approximately 100-150Km-ers appart.
In the year 2002 we visited some american and europian countries to spend
our holydays. The amateur radio experiances during the trips gave us special
forces to start working with the repeaters. When we were back home inmediately
started to survey and examine our possibilities in this buisness build and
handle a repeater system.
Experiancies in Orlando Florida were so deep to me I decided to make something
like that. Soon we became more and more enthusiastic. The hospitalety of HAM's
was amazing.
It was the best feeling when I heard and made connection with Csaba (HA5CD stayed home) in the downtown of Orlando, right just from the entrance of Universal
Studios at City Walk via a local EchoLink repeater. When I first heard his
call I even couldn't beleive my ears. Not to say whey I connected with only
a small VX1 handy from Yaesu was running only half watts.
Since that time we became more and more resolved. We spoke day after day during
the one month of stay. Only the time zones had to calculate reguraly. There
are 6 hours difference between Florida and Hungary.
The help of local amateur stations were very usefull to us. I tried to ask
them about how they made them, and how handeling..? Their answers just gave
more strenght to our decisions.
Soon after I returned home, Csaba went to a Europian tour and had same nice
memories like me.
After the summer passed, we started to work on it.
Only the one third of the work had finished. We continusly trying to do more....
The 70cm Budapest side is strated to work.
Here
are some pictures about the completed part.
The
tower before renovation...
The
finished mast.
