{"id":618,"date":"2016-12-19T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/?p=618"},"modified":"2017-01-03T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:33:24","slug":"winter-repeater-repair-irlp-echo-link-nodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/2016\/12\/19\/winter-repeater-repair-irlp-echo-link-nodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Repeater Repair on the IRLP and Echo Link nodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 313px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/images\/2016-12-17repeaterrepair-1.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Winter repeater repairs start with a truck and snowmobiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It takes more than an arctic cold front and over a foot of unplowed snow to sideline the dedicated hams of the Rocky Mountain Radio League. The IRLP and Echo Link nodes on the .340 repeater malfunctioned, requiring a visit to the repeater site to repair.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Kionka, <span class=\"txtSlash\">KI0GO<\/span>, provided the truck, snowmobiles, and skilled driving talent to negotiate the dangerous roads to the repeater site. He was accompanied by Dunnigan, <span class=\"txtSlash\">K1DUN<\/span>, (acting President). Of course the repairs had to be tested and Tim Banks, <span class=\"txtSlash\">KE4GUQ<\/span>, stayed by his radio to help complete the task.<\/p>\n<p>Although they make a great team, we hope they won\u2019t have to make the trip again this winter. Be sure to thank them the next time you hear them on the air!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 258px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/images\/2016-12-17repeaterrepair-3.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Now that&#8217;s dedication!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 258px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/images\/2016-12-17repeaterrepair-2.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Mike, KI0GO, makes the necessary repairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes more than an arctic cold front and over a foot of unplowed snow to sideline the dedicated hams of the Rocky Mountain Radio League. The IRLP and Echo Link nodes on the .340 repeater malfunctioned, requiring a visit to the repeater site to repair. Mike Kionka, KI0GO, provided the truck, snowmobiles, and skilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeaters","tag-repeaters","tag-rmrl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}