Monthly Archives: January 2021

The Lead­ville re­peat­er has been taken off line as a pre­ven­tative measure due to li­mited power from the solar panels. Sun­light has been scar­ce for sever­al days in a row, so bat­te­ries are low. We hope it will be back on­line in a few days after some more sunshine after this past storm.

It ap­pears the Salida site has been down for some months (Oc­tob­er is our best guess) and we didn’t rea­l­ize it. We had two re­ports come in this week con­firm­ing it is in­deed down. It ap­pears to be a PA issue as it can only be heard weak­ly with a very good an­ten­na. That is […]

The solar power issue has been im­prov­ing en­ough to allow bring­ing the re­peat­er back on­line. We are monitor­ing bat­te­ry status re­gular­ly to make sure it stays OK. If power drops again for some rea­son we may have to take the re­peat­er of­fline again, but at least for now all is good.