[EIDXA] Notice of upcoming repeater down time

[David Peterson]

Weather permitting this Saturday (July 30) we will be doing some major work
to install some upgraded lightning protection and grounding provisions at
the primary receive site for the 2 meter repeaters in Cedar Rapids.  Some
of the items will require the equipment racks to be turned off and
disconnected for extended periods of time so the repeaters will be
unavailable for normal use.

The 146.745 repeater will be changed to the downtown receive site for the
duration of the outage to keep the repeater operational but please remember
the range will not be the usual wide coverage area.   The 145.150, 147.090
and 145.190 repeaters will be off the air until the work is completed since
they do not have any backup or secondary receive sites.

Work is expected to take several hours but be complete by mid-afternoon.



Over the next few weeks, as time and weather permits, there will be
additional outages as we work to install or upgrade various grounding and
lightning protection elements at the W0GQ and W0WSV transmitter sites.  I
will send out similar announcements when that work will be taking place.


Thank you,
David Peterson, KC0ALC
CVARC Station Trustee


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*David Peterson*
KC0ALC
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