We have been having power issues at the site the past few days, so operation has been iffy. If “just” a power issue, it will hopefully be fully operational once power is reliable again.
We have been having power issues at the site the past few days, so operation has been iffy. If “just” a power issue, it will hopefully be fully operational once power is reliable again.
We have been expending considerable effort tracking down the current jammer and some copycats over the past months. Investigation work is normally done without a lot of public fanfare, but from some feedback we are realizing that the lack of publicly visible efforts is leading some to thing we don’t care or are not trying to solve the issue. This is definitely NOT the case! Please see this note regarding the jammer. It is also on our interference reporting page.
Power was only down for a while, YAY! The system is back up.
We have lost main power at the Thorodin site. We are running on backup battery power. If power does not get restored quickly, we will start turning the repeater off during lower usage times to conserve battery power.
While doing some infrastructure work, we broke something! All repeaters are in standalone mode right now. It should get fixed soon.
The Grand Junction repeater works, but is not connected to the rest of the Colorado Connection. That repeater site is tough to get to during the winter, so it may be a bit. We have a long shot with someone using a snowmobile, but it isn’t certain.
It is a temporary fix, but COS is back online. We need one more visit for the permanent fix. While the main issue is the microwave link, we also used the opportunity to swap out the repeater for an MTR-2000 and added some batteries for better backup, so when complete it will be better than before.
The Colorado Springs repeater is working locally, but not linked into the rest of the Colorado Connection. We believe we understand the cause and hoping to schedule a repair visit by the weekend.
It has been up for several weeks, just website updates were a bit delayed.