All plans are weather dependent!! Keep an ear on the repeater for last minute changes. I’ll also try to post any changes here if time allows.
Tuesday, August 2nd – after breakfast the VI. We will leave the Village Inn in Glenwood Springs for Sunlight Peak about 9:15 AM. Early forecast calls for the possibility of showers in the afternoon, so it will probably be a 1/2 day, but it never hurts to pack lunch.
I hope to tackle some tower work to better secure the antenna feed lines. Depending on the time available we may also swap out the UHF Hub repeater (447.6 MHz) with the new (to us) Motorola MTR2000 repeater, this will increase our transmit power and should have slightly better receive sensitivity.
Other general labor projects to be accomplished include some weed pulling/trimming around the building. We’ll plan to be headed down by 2PM if the storms don’t arrive earlier.
Sunday, August 7th – Anvil Points. We will meet at City Market in Rifle at 8AM. It’s 25 miles each way to the site via the JQS trail, and will take us about 90 minutes. The road is in good shape as of yesterday (7/28), but is narrow in places. (My jeep liberty does fine, a full size vehicle will make it, but the pucker factor will be higher). The last 150 meters is through the sage brush, and there is limited parking on top, so some folks should expect to hike the last section. We will try to get as much time on site as weather allows, so pack a lunch.
The major project will be to dig and install mounting poles for our new solar panels. Bring your post hole digger, and spade shovels. Other projects that would be nice to accomplish: Clearing/trimming the brush along that last section of ‘road’, clearing some down trees on the main road. We’ve got some tower work to do, removing some old antennas and feedlines, installing a new antenna, and feedline for the UHF link. There is also general cleanup and weed removal that needs to be done. If you’ve got tools that would be helpful for any of these projects please bring them along.
Any questions, offers or suggestions please contact Chuck n0nhj email is my call sign at yahoo.com or 970 930 1296.
Thanks Chuck – n0nhj
Ski Country Amateur Radio Club - K0RV Field Day 2016 - near Mt. Sopris in Colorado 