Bringing the 285 Tech Connect Radio Club's "TechNet" into the digital realm
As some of you already know, I head up the 285 Tech Connect Radio Club (NA0TC) based in the Denver, Colorado area. Our club, founded in 2005, is dedicated to advancing the technical aspects of the hobby and technical skills of our members. To that end, we run a "TechNet" every Tuesday evening at 1900 (7pm) mountain time. The net, which has been hosted by Robb Sutter KC0ZGK for so long that even Robb can't remember how many years he's been running it. We have been running the TechNet on an analog repeater hosted by another radio club in the Denver area, Colorado Repeater Association (W0CRA). The repeater we've been using, which operates on 145.145 MHz and is located 20 miles West of Denver atop Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain at 11,440' altitude, has amazing coverage across the Denver metro area and out to the Eastern Colorado plains. I'm not exactly sure how long we've used this repeater, but it's a very long time. As with all RF repeaters, there are dark c...
