CRA's mission is to provide amateur repeater services throughout the front range of Colorado, with a focus on reliability, complete coverage, and new technology. The efforts of the CRA shall reflect the needs and desires of its subscribers with respect to coverage, bands, and features provided. The CRA shall promote amateur radio, public safety, and new technology in the interests of all amateur radio operators.
[4/16/2022, WA1JHK]
The 145.460 repeater has been repaired and is available for use.
[4/15/2022, WA1JHK]
The 145.145 repeater has been repaired and is available for use.
Work on the 145.460 replacement hardware continues. (Work has been delayed due to a family emergency.)
[4/7/2022, KB0KZR]
The 145.460 repeater is down this morning. The PA is once again not working. The 447.975 repeater has been linked to the VHF Link System until 145.460 is repaired.
Due to the NCAR Fire, a service trip to the Eldorado repeater site may be delayed due to evacuation orders for areas just to the north and the risk of the fire spreading in a southerly direction. More as we know it.
Some time after the CRA weekly net on March 20th, but before noon on March 21st, the 145.145 repeater on Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain (formerly known as Squaw Mountain) suffered a failure. Depending where you are and your antenna system, you may hear it very weakly, or you may not hear it at all.
We are determining our options for repair. In a normal year, this site is not accessible until early summer.
In the meantime, please give 447.575 a try, it is located at the same site, and is fully functional.
[12/31/2020, WA1JHK] FIXED!!! Yesterday, Doug K2AD and I traveled to the club's Cheyenne Mountain repeater site to repair the link from the 145.160 repeater to the club's VHF Link System including 147.225 in Westcreek and 145.460 in Denver. The link is now operational. Note: later in the day, we heard low level broadcast band audio underneath 145.160 users. We are investigating.
Today WA1JHK and N0LXI traveled to the club's Eldorado repeater site to replace the power amplifier on the 145.460 repeater. The repeater is once again operating at full power. We performed some other general site maintenance as well as installing improvements to the 447.975 repeater that we will announce later.
[Update 1/28/2019, WA1JHK] Work is continuing to get outgoing calls working from the VHF Link system repeaters on IRLP node 3990 and EchoLink node W0CRA-R. Incoming calls are working properly.
The node on our 447.575 Squaw Mountain repeater is off-line. It is being repaired.
[Update 8/21/2018, WA1JHK] We recently received several reports that the VHF Echolink node, W0CRA-R, was not working properly on incoming calls. We have resolved this issue. Incoming calls are once again working. Note that outgoing calls are still not working. Investigation continues...
There is now a Colorado Repeater Association group on Facebook. Join the group and be notified when the club posts news you should know like system status changes. Click the link in the menu on the main web page or search for w0cra.
The new CRA repeater site is called Westcreek. It is located southwest of Larkspur at 9200 feet elevation. A team of 11 hams representing the CRA, ARESDEC, and RMHam traveled to the site on Saturday 11/11/2017 to install racks, run cable, install conduit and AC outlets, install lightning protection, mount antennas and feedlines on the tower, install a UHF multicoupler/combiner and make low loss jumpers.
After 35 years, the CRA is moving from its Conifer repeater site. Our sincere thanks to the Elk Creek Fire District for hosting us all these years while we have provided support to the community during fires, floods, blizzards, severe summer storms and other times of community need.
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