System Status

AS OF 5:30 PM 6/19/2026 – Gunderson is back on the air and the crew is heading down the hill….

See new notes in Striped, Gunderson and Brigadoon. See below for Error 17 explanation.

Striped – (146.760 – offset. Wide Band. CTCSS Tone TX/RX 100 Hz).
7/11/2026 – Repeater System Fully Operational.
6/22/26 The APRS antenna has been moved to the ice bridge. Investigating the possibility of moving APRS to the top of the tower.
6/22/2026 – Noted three 1/2 inch heliax cables flopping loose on SE leg of north tower. Two of those cables belong to CCARC. Need parts and licensed climber to repair.

Archived Reports – https://olyham.net/striped-site-technical-report-archives/

Gunderson – (145.210 – offset. Wide Band. CTCSS Tone TX/RX 100 Hz.)
6/19/20 – Gunderson is fully functional with the new antenna. Lee Bond noted an 11 dB positive change over the old antenna.

Archived Reports – https://olyham.net/5182-2/

Ellis Lookout – (147.060 + offset. Wide Band. CTCSS Tone TX/RX 100 Hz.)
7/11/2026 – Fully Operational. Working on an upgrade to the APRS system to add an IGate as well as the current digipeater.

Archived Reports – https://olyham.net/ellis-technical-report-archives/

Brigadoon – (441.125 + offset. Narrow Band. CTCSS Tone TX/RX 100 Hz.) 7/11/2026 – Repeater is fully operational. 6/22/26 – Loop condition found and corrected, however, found the Brigadoon link transmitter is causing overload to the Gunderson receiver and the Carlsborg link receiver. The Brigadoon system is not able to be linked in because of these two issues.
7/20/2026 — taking the repeater off the air for a short period of time to interface the Arcom RC210 controller to the Motorola SLR 5700. Will announce on groups io prior to its removal.

Archive Reports – https://olyham.net/brigadoon-technical-report-archive/

Carlsborg Remote Receiver – (146.760 – offset. Wide Band. CTCSS tone RX 77 Hz. TX 100 Hz. In other words, a mobile should be programmed to transmit a 77 Hz tone and receives a 100 Hz tone.)
Fully functional. GFI issues continues. GFI to be replaced.

Error 17
First, error 17 causes no issues for the club repeater system. It is an error brought on from a party attempting to log into the Echolink system but without proper credentials.

Past checks on the IP addresses of those attempts find it is normally the NAS or Homeland Security.