Trip to My Ham Repeater 

My mother said she hiked Pike's Peak when she was pregnant with me, back in the late 1940s. I've never been back to CO since they moved East about 1949. now I finally got my ham ticket at 67 years old and you're showing mea lovely sight I've never seen before. Thank you. KC1ELZ

Hey this video has it all ! A rough country jeep ride, A pretty lady, radios, great scenery and a cool dog. Nice job!

Awesome site........be a pleasure to be up there and even better building it.

You are doubly lucky.A repeater at such a nice location and, a very lovely girl companion.

Thanks for the tour and the generous use of your 2m repeater. Awesome. ke0hcn

Awesome! That was the coolest thing watching the video and then tuning my radio to hit the repeater here from Denver CO. 73 Skyler KDØWHB

Good God is that what Colorado really looks like? You are blessed my friend. I lived in 10 states and traveled to another 30 in this country, but never made it to Colorado, nor seen views like that. I think this will be my next travel destination. Hats off to you my friend and 73. Thanks for sharing.

I recognized the Old Stage Coach Road in the beginning.I love this mountain! I just moved to Trinidad from COS about 7 months ago. I am working on getting my ham here soon and will have to work that repeater! Thanks for sharing this video!

Lots of people complaining about the access road, probably have never been out of the city. I live in WA and we have probably thousands of miles of roads like that throughout the Cascades, some of them are even narrower and they take log trucks on them. Have to pay attention to signs when your out there. At that height i figured your jeep might be having some issues.

awesome stand alone setup. I can see a lot of work went into it. great job man. you get really close to the edge going to and from waay up there, and those BIG rocks made me nervous, but WOW what a view. Amazing

Wild ride! Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful scenery

Wow! Absolutely amazing setup, especially at that altitude! I love the breath taking view in HD! The highest one we have here in NC is the 2 meter repeater atop Mt. Mitchell at 6,684 feet ASL, also the highest peak east of the Mississippi River! I've heard you can work 5 states off of it. Thanks for the beautiful scenery, YL included! Hi! Very 73 from KU4GW

This repeater station looks brilliant.

Nice setup and great video/scenery!!

What a view, thanks for the video.

Thank you on behalf of the local hams you serve. 73, John N1DEL (Boston)

Nice set up -- nice view also !!

Beautiful Nature.

Many nice spots to stop and barf along the way!

Pretty country. Wild dog in the camera, :) cute dog.

Amazing video! The first ham radio video I saw on RU-vid. I didn’t really know what a repeater was at the time but it looked cool. I’ve come a long way since then. Got my ticket a few years after watching this video and I’ve learned so much since then. Repeaters are now my primary interest in ham radio.

awesome drive to the top... would be a interesting trip in a wide body truck, sort of like the drive going to rattlesnake canyon in grand junction. BTW great ham set-up

Hehehe the dog looked really big till it turned round and u realize it's little again!! LOL was funny!! Nice relaxing video

Awesome set up you've got there.

The scenery is spectacular. The view's not bad outside the Jeep, either! ; ^ )

amazing location

How incredibly cool!

Nice job and thank you! My "repeater" lives in the house and has feathers!🦜

Must have unbelievable coverage, nice job

Great repeater. I use this from Pueblo occasionally. Bruce KC0AQU

Hello, I wanted to say thank you for such a nice video on a mountaintop Repeater. I’m a Repeater owner my self in the Chicago suburbs. It’s always nice to see how other Repeater owners have their set up. 73 Bill. KA9LFU

All I can say is thank sir for doing what you do

Excellent site! I wish I was there to use it!

Great video

That was a crazy road!! Amazing location 😉 was like visiting Hubble telescope!!

Outstanding vid.. Great setup.. I went mountain topping in Nevada and some of the roads were worse.. Thanks for sharing. 73 to both of you, 88 to your Lady.. Redd...

Nice vid. I wouldn't want to have to drive up there any more often than necessary. That road is kinda scary.

Nice repeater site & setup. We camp hosted in our RV the summer of 2013 at a USFS campground near Salida, CO. We had no cell coverage in the campground, had to walk 1/4 down the dirt service road to a rock outcropping. We were also in a shadow of a nearby 2M mountain repeater. When Sheila would go to town I could hear her on the repeater, but she could not hear my 5 watt signal back at the campground very well at all. It was a good test of our patience skills. I tried a directional cell ant with a 3-watt 3G cell amp mounted at 35 feet right at our campsite, but cell calls and 3G Internet were still hit and miss from our box canyon campground. We take communications for granted until we face real world challenges. My lessons learned were not to assume an eight mile signal path would be line of sight based on observations of a 2-dimentional map! Next would have been more power and a bigger 2M antenna at the campsite. 73, Dave - KU9L

Two Thoughts; 1. A SnowCat trip to your site in the winter must be a real thrill-a-minute event. 2. That 12,000 foot elevation really makes ya "puff". I worked at a 10,000 foot microwave site a few years ago (you had to climb/crawl the final 300 feet up a moderate hill) and I thought I was gonna die !! Nice Video - Thanks for sharing. Ed/Central California

I thought you were in some foreign country with roads like that. Keeps you busy Mike.

That is so cool!

Damn that drive is scary. Screw you nature

I don't own any special radios or anything. I live in Cayuga county NY so I probably couldn't get the signal. I use the scanner app and then I found the Los angles renegade repeater and fell in love with the hilarious arguments and swearing and all that good shit. 😂

I was just up there a couple of weeks ago. Though I walked since I drive a Mazda. I didn't look it over too much, but the repeaters still there. Builds semi caved in now.

I don't check the comments on my vids very much but I see so many nice comments I want to thank everyone.

Your the man.

that is a sketchy access road...

Great video thanks for sharing.. VE3RJL ONTARIO CANADA.. 73'S

As we say in the south, if that dog knew what kinda road you were taking him on he'd bight-chu!

the 147.180 is bad ass///

I thought WTF is this guy doing, he's going to get killed. Then I noticed the video was on 2X.

it all looks good w2ot

I have read about some new resins that are sold today to help seal out moisture from damaged solar panels. You might look into it! Save a bunch of $$$ by not having to replace that panel. Nice views! Range on that site should not be a problem. I was accessing a LE repeater located on the Hancock Tower in Chicago while I was half way across Indiana on Rt.30! The rule of thumb is, the higher the repeater the less power is needed on the transmitter but that receiver better be hot as he**! Intermod is the enemy. Miss the 'old day' 20 years in Commercial COMMS in CMH area and semi retired in SV9 land.

ha.. God's Livingroom..! 👍

Id be playing with the misses not my repeater once I got to the top... Dam she is fine.

I used to live on Gold Camp road in the '70's. Going up the 'hill' it turned into gravel, but nothing like this. I had a Blazer back then. This is WAAYYYY too freaky for me.

Hi , HB&B thanks for the info.....your box is 2000..I was asking about the commercial Rohn shelters up there which are Seismic spec, very heavy, and built up to possibly survive an earthquake. Here our Rohn shelters sat on 24" re-enforced concrete pads and were also bolted down. A 10' x 16' shelter weighed close to 35,000 with radios and HVAC units. Figured a Helo in Winter, usually charge, $300 each flight up and down when I was working.

Well you sure don't have to worry about line loss on a mountain like that I was thinking as you were driving up there you wouldn't need a tower LOL

Great video, thanks for sharing! I love the Springs. When I went up to the top of Pikes Peaks back in 2009 I hadn't had my HAM license yet so I didn't know to look for antennas and repeaters yet. Now that I am a HAM, I've been so interested in repeater set ups and I really appreciated the "tour" you gave in this vid. Is your repeater listed and can I find info to connect for next time I'm in the area? We go there often as my daughter is a figure skater and trains at the Broadmoor Olympic Center. Cheers and 73!

Nov 2019. Just found your channel. Do you still own the repeater? That station is super nice.

Very nice view. Handheld radio go well up there on 1/2w. So random question. 8 years on. Dog still alive, with you. That would be good a a night up there in a tent. So behind a gate, no vehicles but ones that can. Scary to get there, bit close to the edge. So main communications up there so power, why dont they let you have an outdoor armored cable to your storgae box where the stuff is. Mains powered, seems a bit mean when must be power up there. daniel G7TRV

This is the coolest video ever. I was wondering what the model of the main antenna is?

Curious.At such a high altitude, did you find out you needed an antenna with a 1 degree down tilt?

If I worked 40M up on this hill just out of the jeep on a wire dipole, on that hill away from the site there, pretty sure it'd be outrageous. Couldn't imagine a rotatable dipole up here on 40 @ legal limit. But the receive would awesome it'd be hard to leave.You'd have dreams about it later but, a shot of lightning, you'd be outta there so quick. But if I got up often, I'd have something 20 or 40 I could tap into for a while just sayin. You could always build a bunk up over the batteries there for overnight qrp? What a secret propagation shack you've got there. And power bank to boot. Nice. I'd have to work some hf up there I mean really man. Brah. Come on brah. Srsly brah omg 1K and a h/w dipole on 40 brah. Holy crap man.

Very nice Images from your repeater system. Amazing mountain in Colorado. My attention as upon the Solar System that charges the Battery. Using solar engery - Did you get any damages from lightnings? Morever congrats for the fantastic SITE. The BUNKER and rigs are very well moounted. PY2-FI - Fábio Bueno - Brazil

Yeah would love a site like that for my 220 repeater..Thanks for sharing.You have Allstar up there?

Hello Hot Brass, What radius does the repeater cover? cu

Nx time you go bring an RF meter!

One begs to question how all of that equipment/material made it up there on that road!?

Very nice area! How long is the range of transmission? Thanks for this Video!!

nice view. What is the brand, and DB gain on your VHF antenna?

I spent 25 yrs with a major East Coast police dept as a radio tech-electrician. I built 911 call centers and several tower sites. We ran VHF for 30 years and in 99 went 800 Trunked, Moto Type II Smartzone. So, my question is, how did you get that Rohn shelter up there ? I know that baby must weigh about 50,000 pounds being all concrete and steel. Hate to make site visit in Winter or worse need a part from the shop ! Or worse, get hurt up there. I'd "carry" working up there alone, you bet !

Land slides hmmmmmm Danger.

Could not drive a stick to save my life. Noticed the close up shot of the manual at the start of the video.

Hey, nice Location up there. Im just wondering, wherefore those long Spikes at the Gate are?! 73s from northern Germany.

What that cost you and how long did it take for you to get set up?

No way!

How many and what size solar panels are you using to power that rig. Thanks

Thank you de ac0v

What is elevation? Is the equipment left open like that? Does it get damaged from elements?

I'm curious how one get's permission to set up on property like this. Is this a leased access?

Sounded like you were having a hard time breathing up there. Was it because of the high altitude or do you have breathing problems?

oooooh noo thats not enough road for me sorry 😯

Donde diablos es ese sitio...?? Y como hicieron el camino .. A punte mingas...? Saludos a la Grinda desde Quito-Ecuador.

Is that the lady from dragonman firearms? Yaaaaaahooooooo, Bruwhahahaha

What is the repeater box made from? looks military grade.

What model is your mobile radio? Looks rugged.

I'm only at 1:34 and.... HELL NO! I have ain't goin on that road! That looks like some of that crap in India or South America they try to pass off as roads. They ain't no repeater worth that. Respectfully.

Wonder if your Jeep insurance company saw this video and raised your rates lol

10/12/2021 Great site. How did you ever snag a spot there? I know I can’t but almost seems like I could work it from New Hampshire. What is the name of the mountain. And I/O of Repeater? John KC1ANI

Ho my God heave never seen one of those ? Know l know what they look like ?!!!📡

What kind of range do you get from that height? Do neighboring mountains (such as Pikes Peak) block much of your range?

What's the farthest distance you have covered with this repeater?

I hope your camera is mounted and you're not "shooting and driving" ...All of those rocks on the ground came off the mountain...I hope you don't have the sun roof open....Wild...

Is your repeater on Echolink at all? K7JFN in Corvallis, Oregon here. I ham out of my apartment and love to talk with fellow Hams over Echolink. 73.

wow, that's a nice setup. what kind of coverage do you get? is your link radio pointed to your house so you can control it? does that prevent you from having to transmit the DTMF tones over the repeater? can you tell me, how did you get permission to set this up? did you get permission from the town to have it there for so long? also, how many watts do you use, i'm guessing around 100watts?

. . . . . if you ever wondered why they're called the "Rocky Mountains". . . .wonder no more!!

does anyone have a model on the weatherproof telecom cabinet hes using?

Isn't it better to have a separate lead acid battery compartment for the batteries away from all of your electronics and hardware to prevent corrosion due to hydrogen gases from the batteries?