Wow, and I get peeved having to drive 5 min up a paved road to my D-Star repeater site when the something needs attention! My 2m FM repeater site is around 46km away, nothing compared with your site. This time of the year all I have to contend with 110 deg.F days and making sure the air con works and that the generator is ready to go in case of power failures.
Michael. VK5ZEA --- In [email protected], "Nate Duehr" <n...@...> wrote: > > The W0CDS Gateway was down for a couple of days. It is back online now. > > Due to some serious crazy effort by John N0WBW and Mike Mullarky K7PFJ, > plus some of the technicians we know who work for the ISP who's wireless > backbone resides at Mt. Thorodin, (riding a sno-cat up Mt. Thorodin in > blowing snow/blizzard conditions), it was found that the new UPS > installed to protect various gear from the seriously bad power up there, > had failed... > > The site just munches UPS's and power supplies for lunch. The power > bumps (as we all could see when the Gateway rebooted regularly during > the early Summer prior to the UPS installation) are really wicked up > there. > > John got permission to plug the multiple systems that were powered off > the dead UPS into a much larger and hopefully more stable UPS that the > ISP utilizes, and he's hunting for a bigger/beefier/won't-die model for > the ham cabinet gear to install later when the weather/road/etc is in > much nicer shape. He reports that sno-cat is now the only way up there, > and this will probably remain true until Spring... just like most years. > (In January of 2007 a Bell JetRanger helicopter was utilized. That's > an option the ham community certainly can't afford to pay for, but that > was for a commercial customer visit.) > > Send your thanks to John for going up there on Sunday. Centennial > Airport clocked 39 knot gusts so I don't even want to take a guess as to > what it was doing atop Mt. Thorodin around 6000' higher up. Winds at > 9000' MSL and 12000' MSL out of the west were forecast in the high > 30-knot-range via the Aviation weather outlets. I think the forecasts > were conservative on Sunday compared to how strong the frontal > passage/formation of the trough East of the Rockies really was. > > You guys are only a LITTLE nuts, John! :-) Thanks for going up there. > > 73, > > -- > Nate Duehr, WY0X > n...@... > > CC: DSTAR_DIGITAL list in case folks were trying to call Denver D-STAR > friends/associates. > BCC: John and Mike >
