Canadian, Texas

HEMPHL (Hemphill County), located south of Canadian, Texas, is our most northeastern node to date.

UPDATE: A complete overhaul of this site was conducted on May 30, 2009:

The HEMPHL PACKET node and the CANADN APRS digi are now inside the new building and were piggy-backed together, via duplexers, to a dual-band antenna, which also supports a UHF voice repeater. The PACKET and APRS transceivers are fed into a commercial crossband coupler. The PACKET side is sending about 65 watts to the Andrew 7/8 inch Heliax, using a Motorola Maratrac. Its TNC is a MFJ 1270C. The APRS unit, a Motorola Maxtrac, has about 20 watts going to the feedline, and is using a KPC-3 TNC.

Some mobile packet tests were made on March 7, 2009.

* We started working HEMPHL at the elevator about nine miles SW of Pampa, TX.

* From the Oklahoma-Texas state line, SE of Canadian on Highway 33...

...we were able to send PACKET messages into the mailboxes of SEVEN stations back in the Amarillo and Panhandle areas:  WA8YYE, KC5EZO, N5SUJ, N5LUL, W5AMA, KD5RGR, and KC5HKT.

HEMPHL was full scale on the state line. The route back to Amarillo was HEMPHL>GRAY>POTTER and the route back to Joey in Panhandle was HEMPHL>GRAY

There would have been NO problem in passing emergency or other traffic from the state line-- OR Arnett, OK-- or from the Canadian River south of Arnett. Signal strengths from HEMPHL were usually full-scale everywhere we checked, except S7 in Arnett.

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