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Thanks to Bill (W0BX) for making the trek to the site via mountain bike!  Roads are still at least a month away from passable but accessible via mountain bike (24 miles taking 4 hours).

We were able to “borrow” a snowcat and make it up to Thorodin earlier than waiting for jeep access and repairs have been made.  The Mt. Thorodin transmitter is back up to being fully operational!

The temporary transmitter on Lee Hill has been re-tuned to 145.310MHz, so now you can use your normal repeater offset for this location.  The “alternate” 145.430MHz is not available.  Coverage is still not the same as the Thorodin transmitter, but now at least the “normal” frequency.

We have a “not great, but better than nothing” solution, we are using a backup transmitter on Lee Hill. It transmits on 145.430MHz with an optional 141.3Hz output tone. This transmitter does NOT have frequency paired receiver, so you still need to transmit on 144.710MHz! You can either work split frequencies or have a very […]

The Grand Junction machine is un-linked. Unfortunately it cannot be fixed remotely, it is going to require a site visit.

The Connection’s web server was hacked a couple of days ago, but the whole network is fine. We are trying to get things restored as quickly as possible. Please bear with us.