VE3RTR REPEATER SITE
The VE3RTR repeater is located half way between Baltimore and Harwood Ontario just north of the town of Cobourg . CFMX a FM radio station owns the property while Global Television owns the tower on which the repeater antennas are located about a third of the way up the communications tower. The footprint of RTR covers quite an area from the Oshawa to the west , to Peterborough area to the north , Belleville area to the east and the upper parts of New York state. When conditions do vary at times a further reach is achievable.
VE3RTR repeater is part of the VE3ULR association and VE3CAB Terry Darling was the person that created the ULR network. RTR had suffered castastrophic damages two years ago and Jamie Barnes VE3RSJ managed to keep the site going as best as possible. Last year the Heritage Amateur Radio Club made a no strings attached donation to the ULR to purchase a new controller.The new controller was installed by Randy Neals VE3RWN and between him and Jamie they have managed to program the controller.
The manual is a rather large book according to Jamie and the tweaking of the controller will go on forever.
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<= Looking south from the tower towards Cobourg. | ||
| Looking west towards Port Hope and beyond. => |  |
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<= Antenna link to ULR. | ||
| RTR's vhf & uhf antennas. => |  |
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<= The RTR controller. | ||
| The new RTR. => |  |
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