No broadcast on Pikes Peak - you're thinking of Cheyenne Mountain, ///// Thanks for the correction Scott. I've lived here 26 years and I guess I've fallen into the habit. Everyone around Denver refers to Cheyenne Mountain and Pikes Peak interchangeably. I think we do that just to thumb our noses at Colorado Springs. The two mountains are actually 12 miles apart.
The fire department where I worked here in the north Denver suburbs, and the Pikes Peak Highway Authority, both had a repeater on the same UHF frequency pair. The FCC approved this because we were horizontally seperated by over 70 miles. But, of course, they failed to consider the fact that the repeaters were line of site to each other. Ours was at 5,500 feet and theirs was around 12,000 feet with lower terrain along the path between the two. So we had to live with one another for the next 15 years. Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
