VHF EchoLink and IRLP Currently Down
Network changes at WA1JHK have temporarily made the VHF EchoLink and IRLP unavailable. It will be repaired shortly.
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Update on the status of 145.145 and 145.460
[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]
145.460 is down, CRA Net moved to 447.975
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.
145.145 temporarily off-air, or operating at severely reduced power
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.
145.160 Link to VHF Link System Repaired
[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.
Eldorado 145.460 Repeater Back to Full Power
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.
VHF IRLP and Echolink Status Update
[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 Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain repeater is off-line. It is being repaired.
Now on Facebook!
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.
New CRA Site On-the-Air: Westcreek!
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.
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