The Loud POP!

Flash! POP!

Those were the last sounds heard from the VXR 7000 2 meter repeater. We're waiting to hear back from Yaesu on what its going to cost us to replace the PSU for the machine. The lightning strike also took out W4PWB's Alinco power supply for his HF gear and 2 meter monitor rig.

If there's anyone who happens to have a power supply we'd be sure to put it to good use at the W4EWR repeater site. Same goes for just about anything we can get our hands on here.

In the meantime W4EWR is operating simplex. Our repeater computer is still working, but we can't test it without a machine to plug it into. Let's hope that the power supplies took the worst of the hit and nothing got into the other boards.

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