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Thorodin power restored!

April 1, 2023

All is good again!


Thorodin Power Failure!

March 31, 2023

Our main site, Thorodin just had a power failure.  We have backup batteries, but they have a limited backup time.  If power is gone for too long we will proactively shut down equipment to protect it.  Since Thorodin is the controller hub for the entire system, if it goes down, all the repeaters will go […]


Joshua Glancey (KK6LJS) privileges revoked

February 26, 2023

Joshua Glancey (KK6LJS) is no longer allowed to use the Colorado Connection.  Users are requested not to communicate with him if he uses the network. Details are in this statement.


Amazon stopped smiling.

January 19, 2023

With regret, Amazon is discontinuing this program.  It was great while it lasted and thanks to the folk that signed us up for their charity.  We got about $800 in donations for the run of the program.


Colcon 3.0 Drive update

January 3, 2023

Amazing! Many folk stepped up and donated toward this drive and in less than a month met the $5,000 goal for the matching funds.  The repeaters are starting to come in and now we can start getting them ready for this summer.  THANK YOU ALL!!


Leadville temporarily offline

January 1, 2023

Even good and new solar panels and batteries have their limits!  We’ve had 7 days of no sunshine at that site and need to disable the repeater to protect the batteries until we get a few days of sunshine to recharge them.  We’re monitoring battery status and will re-enable the repeater as soon as we […]


ColCon 3.0 Drive!

December 23, 2022

We “got an offer we couldn’t refuse”!  See the Upgrade Project tab above for details.


Akron site likely down

December 23, 2022

This site appears to be down.  It may be a PA issue only.


Ft. Collins and Akron issues

December 23, 2022

The Fort Collins repeater appears to be having receive sensitivity issues again.  This is a know issue, but seems to have become worse recently.  The long term fix is a second remote received-only site which is on our to do list.


New Repeater! Burlington

November 14, 2022

We have our newest repeater site, Burlington, CO.  This extends our I-70 coverage to almost the Kansas state line!  It uses the same frequency as Colorado Springs (145.130MHz), but is far enough away from that repeater to not cause any interference.