> Up until some recent interference problems up there, our UHF up there > has been known to hear mobiles traveling Interstate 80 through > Wyoming... but unless they're going north through Denver and we ask > them to "stay with us" to see how far they go, they'd never think to > look up our repeaters when headed across Wyoming! > > http://www.laramie.org/facts/directions.htm#us287 > > From that map, we talked to a mobile who had a 35W UHF radio and a > nice Diamond high-gain antenna from Castle Rock to 5 miles East of > Laramie, WY -- via the I-25 north to I-80 route on our single UHF high- > site repeater, with the only drop-out being down in the hole where > Cheyenne, WY sits. > Laramie is 140 miles away. http://www.laramie.org/facts/ > > (By the way... these two "facts" on that web page are inter- related... > just for fun... since we're all computer geeks here... > Laramie is traversed by 2 nationwide fiber optic carriers & 1 > digital microwave route > Union Pacific Railroad mainline operates over 55 freight trains on a > daily basis through Laramie > Guess where the fiber runs along?)
Only 2 fiber lines? MCI,AT&T,Sprint,Enron(or whoever has it now)..Saw them all go in both sides of the tracks... > > He wasn't copyable for about 5 minutes, but he hung in there to see > what the repeater would do. He was "hill-topping" as he climbed the > pass out of Cheyenne with short drop-outs behind hills, as he traveled > up into the forest and up to the top of the ridge above Laramie he got > better and better, then he was gone... 5 mi east of Laramie is the Summit, highest point on I-80, where on can see the statue of Lincoln looking down on the road... > > If I ever move away from here, I'm going to wonder what the heck is > wrong with my VHF/UHF mobiles, if I end up somewhere in the flat- > land. I'll think they're broken! > > -- > Nate Duehr, WY0X > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I live 99 mi to the west of Laramie, and there used to be a statwide link here also. Politics, personal problems, lack of interest and it went away. Just a few sections left. A few of us up here have looked into trying to get into a system like the Connection (which we can hear the Walden machine), just a lack of local support. Just a few of us do all the work...The rest complain or make demands with little or no support... Have a happy Turkey Day everyone....I have to go to work... 73 Mike - N7ZEF
