Some of you may have had difficulty using the W1SYE (145.450) repeater recently.  The hardware appears to have developed some thermal issues.  The symptom is you can kerchunk the repeater and it will beep back at you, but it does not pass audio.

However, if you are persistent, hold your PTT and talk for about a minute, then the repeater warms up enough that it starts passing audio (distorted at first, then perfectly fine).  After that, the repeater will work fine until things cool back down.

The repeater committee is aware of the issue, will try to see if it can be fixed, or improved, but has been working on a longer range fix to replace the repeater hardware.