Jim started his interest in repeaters shortly after getting his
license. He started out tagging along with the owners of a 2 meter
repeater on Mt. Wilson when they would work on the repeater. A couple
years later, he got involved with the Hilltop Amateur Mastertie System
(HAMS) - a club that had two 440 repeaters. One had an autopatch and
the other had a 2 meter remote base, and later a 10 meter remote base was
added to the system. Jim became one of the primary maintenance people
for the group, and also one of the few people who was willing to climb
towers. Later Jim became involved in the Sierra Peak Amateur Radio
Klub (SPARK) which had a 440 repeater on Sierra Peak and later on Santiago
Peak.
In the late 1980's, Jim became a partner in a 440 repeater that has resided
at several different sites, but now resides on Flint Peak which is a hill
west on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. In the early 1990's Jim got more
involved with the Edison Amateur Radio Network which is the amateur radio
club of Jim's employer. During most of the 1990's EARN has been
building a network of currently 13 repeaters on the 220 MHz band that has
coverage over most of southern California, some of southern Nevada and a
little bit of western Arizona.
