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OCARC Technical Documentation

Welcome to the Orchard City Amateur Radio Club's technical documentation archive. Here you will find details about various technical projects that the club is working on, as well as an archive of documentation for club-owned equipment.

Installations

Repeaters

• VE7ROC Little White Mountain VHF repeater
• VA7DIG Landmark 2 D-Star repeater
• VE7HOL Dilworth Mountain VHF repeater
• VE7ROK Orchard VHF repeater
• VE7RBG Big White VHF repeater
• VA7YLW Big White IRLP node
• VA7OKV Peachland UHF hub
• VA7KEL Blue Grouse
• VE7KEL Kelowna UHF repeater 447.775
• VE7HWY Kuipers Peak
• VE7ROW Okanagan Mountain
• VE7RBJ Okanagan Mountain

IRLP

• BGWHTE Big White Mountain IRLP

APRS

• BGWHTE Big White Mountain digipeater
• RODDHU Roderick Dhu Mountain digipeater
• VA7DIG-1 Kelowna Landmark iGate
• VA7OGO-1 Revelstoke West digipeater
• VA7OGO-2 Revelstoke East digipeater
• VA7OGO-3 Golden North digipeater (not yet installed)
• VA7OGO-4 Golden Kicking Horse Mountain digipeater (not yet installed)
• VA7OGO-13 Golden digipeater (not yet installed)
• VA7OGO-14 Blue Grouse iGate
• VA7OGO-15 Revelstoke iGate (not yet installed)
• VA7YLW-1 Black Knight Mountain digipeater
• VE7OGO-1 Cedar Creek iGate
• VE7ROC Little White Mountain digipeater

TCP/IP

• Club Network

Club Stations

Cedar Creek

• WS3
• The Octopus
• Remote Base
• Cedar Creek Antennas

Ellison

• Ellison Antennas

Projects

• IGate using a Raspberry Pi
• BC Interior HamWAN
• 5cm Data network using COTS operating in the 5.83GHz to 5.92GHz Band
• Kuipers Peak New Kelowna Repeater Project
• Okanagan Mountain Repeater Project
• Broadcastify Streaming Live audio of local repeaters

Club member operated Repeater information

• VE7SFX 146.780 - 600 88.5 Rutland C4FM Fusion Repeater Sponsor VE7EQN
• VA7NBC 147.100 + 600 88.5 Kelowna MMDVM Multi-Mode U/V Digital Rpt. - Kuipers Peak Sponsor VA7UN
• VE7EJP 146.720 - 600 88.5 Salmon-Arm Cult Hill Repeater Linked to VE7KTV via Enderby Sponsor VA7UN
• VA7CNN 146.840 - 600 88.5 Kelowna Black Mtn. Allstar Win-System Affiliate Repeater Sponsor VA7UN
• VE7OJP 147.180 + 600 88.5 Osoyoos Mt. Kobo Repeater - Linked to VE7KTV Sponsor VA7UN
• VE7RJP 147.200 + 600 88.5 Revelstoke Mt. Begbie Repeater - Linked to VE7KTV Sponsor VA7UN
• VA7UN 147.260 + 600 88.5 Kelowna Allstar Link Repeater Sponsor VA7UN
• VE7KTV 147.300 + 600 88.5 Kelowna Blue Grouse Mtn. Hub Repeater/ATV Sponsor VA7UN
• VA7VTV 147.300 + 600 88.5 Vernon Turtle Mtn. Repeater - Linked to VE7KTV Sponsor VA7UN
• VA7PTV 146.700 - 600 88.5 Penticton Chute-Lake Mtn. Repeater - Linked to VE7KTV Sponsor VA7UN
• VA7JPL 147.360 + 600 88.5 Kelowna Black Mtn. Satellite Gateway Sponsor VA7UN
• VE7EJP 449.900 +5000 88.5 Enderby Enderby Cliff - UHF Hub/Relay to VE7KTV Sponsor VA7UN

• VE7KTV Repeater System Block Diagram

• Blue Grouse Mountain Block Diagram

• Black Mountain Block Diagram

• AllStar Link Node Numbers

Club member operated APRS

• VE7RJP-1 Revelstoke digipeater Sponsor VE7EQN
• VE7OJP-1 Osoyoos digipeater Sponsor VE7EQN

(ATV) Amateur Television Repeater System information

• VE7KTV Kelowna ATV 439.25 MHz TX / 2.410 GHz RX & 1.289 GHz (VE7VTV-Vernon) RX Sponsor VA7UN

• VE7VTV Vernon ATV 1.289 GHz FM ATV TX / 1.246 GHz RX & 439.25 MHz (VE7KTV-Kelowna) RX Sponsor VA7VW

Amateur Satellite and Space Communications

AMSAT

Amsat Twitter

AMSAT Wiki

AMSAT UK

AMSAT Germany

AMSAT-DL P3E

Es’hail-2 Qatar/AMSAT-DL Geostationary Satellite

AMSAT India

Canadian Amateur Satellite CanX-1 CanX-2

UVIC ECOsat

ECOsat Canadian Amateur Satellite

Gunter's Space Page

DD1US Satellite Page

KA7FVV Satelite Page

Real time Satelite Tracking

ISS Fan Club

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

Live Streaming VA7UN Satellite Gateway Ground Station

C4FM/DMR/P-25/D-Star MMDVM/Digital Voice - information

Brandmeister MMDVM Wiki

Multi Mode Digital MMDVM Demo

TYT MD-2017 Dual Band DMR HT

DMR QSO

Fusion C4FM QSO

System Fusion C4FM info

P25 vs FM 900 MHz

FM vs C4FM

FM vs C4FM marginal path

SDR and WEB-SDR

(UVIC) University of Victoria Web-SDR

University of Twente - The Netherlands

Misc technical information

BC Frequency Coordination Council

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