447.500/R Has a New Home

In an ex­pans­ion of the co­operative ag­ree­ment bet­ween the Aurora Re­peat­er As­socia­tion and Rocky Moun­tain Ham Radio, the 447.500 re­peat­er is now a few miles south of its origin­al loc­a­tion at a site known as Critchell. At 8,400 feet it is not quite as high as the old Con­if­er Moun­tain site but it does enjoy co­verage of the sout­hern por­tion of the metro area. The re­peat­er was placed on Critchell Mon­day De­cemb­er 29 by Steve KØIBM and Scott NØOWY. There was a flur­ry of ac­tiv­ity as peo­ple who had been re­gular users of the mac­hine found it lig­ht­ing up their rigs in the scan mode. As we go for­ward we’ll learn more about the co­verage that the mac­hine will enjoy using the ARA’s con­figura­tion. Here is what the es­timated co­verage was be­fore. Rocky Moun­tain Ham Radio has re­lin­quis­hed their 447.225 pair back to the Col­orado Co­un­cil of Amateur Radio Club’s frequen­cy pair pool at this time and is pre­par­ing to re-purpose the equip­ment that was at the site. The para­met­ers of the 447.500 (-) re­peat­er re­main the same with a 88.5 Hz CTCSS tone.