Posted on behalf of Tony Hagans, K0RPC.
Project update from this morning. K2AD made the 3+ hour drive from Longmont area to deliver our Colorado Connection repeater. He attended our meeting/breakfast and we went up to the site and installed the repeater. It was great to have several of the newer members and faces make the trek to the tower. We decided to leave the existing 2m antenna in place for now as it tested fine, we did discover the reason the 2m had been deaf, there was a bad coax connection (looking at you Kelly 😂).
So, as of about 11:30 AM the 146.700 is on the air and linked full time to the Colorado Connection. This provides nearly statewide coverage on linked analog repeaters that are almost exclusively 2m. If you have monitored or participated on the Cheyenne Mountain 145.130 this is the same network. As a linked system, please be cognizant that keying our 700 now keys 18 other repeaters as well. If we have local traffic or a local net we will want to continue to handle that on the 625. The 700 however will likely always have someone listening and available for either emergency traffic or just a radio check or casual conversation.
Important change — the input tone (your TX CTCSS) needs to be 88.5. This is shared across the entire system. The RX tone is 123 and as always is optional but if you don’t want to hear all the IDs and other CW traffic you will want to set it. Big thanks to Doug and the ColCon crew for bringing N0AVH on board!
