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West Palm Beach - Repeater Site |
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| The AREC Repeater site is located at
a tower near 45th Street and the Turnpike in West Palm Beach. The repeater
is manufactured by Maggiore, with a Vocomm amplifier running approximately
50 watts output. The controller board is a CAT 300DXL with phone patch
capability. The repeater has emergency generator backup power.
The antenna is a DB-224E by Andrew Corp., a 23 ft tall vertical mast with
four stacked full-wave folded dipole elements, providing high gain and
broad bandwidth. The antenna is located on the SW side of the tower with
all four elements pointing West. The base of the antenna is about 355 feet
above ground. This configuration gives us approximately 9 Dbd gain to the West and about 7.5 Dbd gain to the North and South, providing excellent coverage over Palm Beach County (these figures are from the data for this antenna published by Andrew Corp). |
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