The usual­ly in­ter­mittent Duran­go re­peat­er is now of­fline and we have had a PA failure at the Bur­lington site. Re­pair season is com­ing soon!

We’ve had two re­ports of is­sues with the Grand Junc­tion mac­hine in the past few days, so it may be hav­ing is­sues.

All is good again!

Our main site, Thorodin just had a power failure. We have bac­kup bat­te­ries, but they have a li­mited bac­kup time. If power is gone for too long we will pro­ac­tive­ly shut down equip­ment to pro­tect it. Since Thorodin is the con­troll­er hub for the en­tire sys­tem, if it goes down, all the re­peat­ers will go into stand-alone mode. We will keep you appraised.

Jos­hua Glan­cey (KK6LJS) is no long­er al­lowed to use the Col­orado Con­nec­tion. Users are re­ques­ted not to com­municate with him if he uses the net­work. De­tails are in this state­ment.

With re­gret, Amazon is dis­con­tinu­ing this pro­gram. It was great while it las­ted and thanks to the folk that sig­ned us up for their char­ity. We got about $800 in dona­tions for the run of the pro­gram.

Amaz­ing! Many folk step­ped up and donated toward this drive and in less than a month met the $5,000 goal for the match­ing funds. The re­peat­ers are start­ing to come in and now we can start gett­ing them ready for this summ­er. THANK YOU ALL!!

Even good and new solar panels and bat­te­ries have their li­mits! We’ve had 7 days of no sunshine at that site and need to dis­able the re­peat­er to pro­tect the bat­te­ries until we get a few days of sunshine to re­char­ge them. We’re monitor­ing bat­te­ry status and will re-enable the re­peat­er as soon as we can.

We “got an offer we could­n’t re­fuse”! See the Upgrade Pro­ject tab above for de­tails.

This site ap­pears to be down. It may be a PA issue only.