Left this morning just after 0800 with another member of our GMRS group in his Jeep to make the 2.5 hour trip up to a mountain top repeater site. The Vertex VXR 7000 we had running on GMRS 22 had developed a intermittent problem hearing and now is getting pretty close to the end of being able to get up here without snowmobiles.
Turned out to be a great day on the mountain, sunny and just a breeze to deal with, temperatures right at freezing.
I put in a Motorola MTR2000 40W repeater I had put a great deal of work into this week on short notice to get a external controller adapted to it and it works great.
We then fixed a couple of the heaters in the building, and hopefully they will keep it above freezing.
Also checked out the JD powered Kohler generator that was in the building for backup power. Would fault and shut down after only 30 seconds. Turned out pretty simple. The water level was low in the radiator and a level sensor was tripping it out. Ive been told it existed in this condition for at least the past 4 years. The confusion arose because the panel on the gen does not have a light for low water, so it lights the auxillary fault light giving you no information on what may have caused it.
Once that was rectifed it ran and even powered the building for about 30 minutes.
We had a quick BBQ lunch and chatted for a bit before heading back down about 1400. We got everything that needed looked at fixed and repaired so with any luck we wont have to break out the snowcat this winter.
Turned out to be a great day on the mountain, sunny and just a breeze to deal with, temperatures right at freezing.
I put in a Motorola MTR2000 40W repeater I had put a great deal of work into this week on short notice to get a external controller adapted to it and it works great.
We then fixed a couple of the heaters in the building, and hopefully they will keep it above freezing.
Also checked out the JD powered Kohler generator that was in the building for backup power. Would fault and shut down after only 30 seconds. Turned out pretty simple. The water level was low in the radiator and a level sensor was tripping it out. Ive been told it existed in this condition for at least the past 4 years. The confusion arose because the panel on the gen does not have a light for low water, so it lights the auxillary fault light giving you no information on what may have caused it.
Once that was rectifed it ran and even powered the building for about 30 minutes.
We had a quick BBQ lunch and chatted for a bit before heading back down about 1400. We got everything that needed looked at fixed and repaired so with any luck we wont have to break out the snowcat this winter.