Quantar lost it Brains

[fail999]

Well one of the VHF Quantars that belongs to the Civil Air Patrol took a lightening induced spike. Among the things that got hit is the Flash Memory SIMM on the CLN1614A Station Control
Module. Mother /\/\ says $375.00 to replace. The software version the SIMM contained was 20.10.066. Since all maintainance on these Quantars is paid for by local members I'm hoping for a less expensive option.

Has anybody fought this battle and found a work around?

Thanks,
fail999

[Hartley]

Hi,

Have you talked to the NTC about getting that board repaired/replaced? They have replaced both of the PS modules we 've had go down.

Hartley

[batdude]

$375 is a steal if that includes the firmware in it.... and that's all that is wrong with the unit... (unlikely IMHO)

quantars are one expensive beast to maintain....

$1700 for a swap out PA
same for a PS

some of the boards are into the $2k area....




doug

[boylo]

$375 your lucky fixed price repair for my CLN6961B is US$900.00 or AUS $1188.
They are expensive to maintain and I wouldn't say they are very reliable especially the power supplies (I have had a 50% failure rate out of 20 quantar repeaters in a 4 year period).

[RFNebraska]

with a lighting strile I'd say you got off easy. Lightning has done some major damage to some of the motorola trunking sites in my area. Some advice on how to prevent a near miss from taking it out again though, use a grounded polyphaser on the antenna feed line. They won't protect against a direct hit but it will save your repeater/ bse station from an indirect hit.
http://www.polyphaser.com/

The ones my shop uses are about $100 each but well worth it as you have seen.

JIM