The repeater is a GE Master II with WACOM duplexers. As with the Mt. Thorodin site, there is a UHF linking repeater here. More modest than the Master II at Mt. Thorodin, it uses a GE Custom MVP. The controller is a Link Communications RLC-1. The VHF repeater antenna is fiberglass commercial colinear. The UHF uses Diamond X50 side mounted off the tower.
The Salida site has linked to the rest of the system through several locations in past years. Currently, there is a dual band transceiver located southeast of Fairplay at the home of Ray (KC7IVB). This transceiver provides a path between Salida's UHF link and either the Leadville or Breckenridge repeater. It's handy having the ability to link to either repeater should problems arise on one or the other. The Wolf Creek Pass repeater links via UHF to this site.
Access to this site is via 4WD vehicle between July and September. Access in winter months has never been attempted. Should this repeater fail, it remains inoperative until summer access is available.
To see a full size view of any of the photographs, just click on the small pictures.
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| The repeater site as viewed during the drive up Fremont Peak and Methodist Mountain. | UHF used to link simplex through Buena Vista to Leadville using this 11 element yagi. | Robert (NĜUDM) taking a break from a work party at the Salida site in 1994. | View of one of the older repeaters used at Salida before the current Master II. |
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| The Salida repeater used to use a Decibel Products DB224 four bay folded dipole. | John (N5EHP) doing some antenna maintenance atop the 50 foot tower. | John (N5EHP) and Ralph (KA7DHG) changing antennas after a lightning strike. | This 11 element yagi now resides atop Wolf Creek Pass, linking to Salida. |
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| Three dimensional map of Fremont Peak and the surrounding area. | Approximate coverage area of the Salida repeater. |
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