The Philipsburg 575 is a low-level repeater serving the Philipsburg Borough and surrounding areas.
Parameters:
- Call sign: WRDT431
- Frequency: 462.575 MHz (FRS/GMRS Channel 24)
- Offset: +5.00 MHz
- Uplink tone: 192.8 Hz
- Downlink tone: 192.8 Hz
- Location: Allport PA
- Elevation: 1640 ft. AMSL
- Height: 25 ft.
- TX Power: 36 watts out of the duplexer and into the feed line
- Feed line loss: 1.3 dB (26%)
- Antenna gain: 6 dBd
- Effective radiated power: 107 watts
Components:
- Hustler G6-450-2 omnidirectional collinear antenna (6 dBd)
- Times Microwave LMR-600 feed line (60 ft)
- WACOM 532-4001-004-678 Duplexer
- Sinclair FP30107-3 bandpass filter
- 1 dB attenuator before preamp to provide 50 ohm impedance match
- ARR P460VDG preamp (18 dB)
- 6 dB attenuator after preamp to reduce preamp gain
- ICOM IC-F621-2 receiver (0.25 µV)
- ICOM IC-F621-2 transmitter (45 watts)
- Communication Specialists TP-3200 Controller
Familiar Voices:
- WRDT431 – Bob Snyder, Allport, PA
- WREE664 – Darren Dixon, Philipsburg, PA