Autopatch Repeater
Autopatch, sure, right, not in my lifetime.

JimWilson and DaveAzpell and ?EricSmitt, I think, put together the first two meter repeater to serve the Lafayette community. At that time it took a rather lengthy application to the FCC to get a repeater call. Ours was WR9ACZ as I recall.

SteveBelter, DaveAzpell, JimWilson and BillThomas used a stove to SolderTheCavities.

?WardCunningham wrote the control program for the autopatch in 6800 assembler as five parallel tasks... 

 TASKS  FDB     COR	     CARRIER OPERATION 
	FDB     CONTRL	  CONTROL FUNCTION PROCESSER
	FDB     DIAL	    DIAL PULSE GENERATOR
	FDB     RINGER	  INCOMMING CALL DETECTOR 
	FDB     IDENT	   IDENTIFIER
The original source was recently located ... After a while the sensitivity of the repeater began to degrade badly. I recall how you could barely key it up, even standing in front of the equipment cabinet in the attic of Grad House! -- TomDoligalski

 
Last edited June 7, 2002
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