Squaw Mountain Site

The Squaw Mountain site was the CRA's second site to be developed.

Squaw Mountain is located 20 miles west of Denver at an elevation of 11,430 feet with wide-area coverage including the I-70 corridor to the Eisenhower tunnel. If you are currently using another Squaw Mountain repeater due to your location or inability to access one of our other repeaters, you should be able to use the 145.145 repeater.

The club leases facilities from the Squaw Mountain site owner. Due to technical advances and a dedication to be one of the premier front range repeater sites, our landlord requires all amateur two-meter repeaters located on Squaw Mountain use the same transmit and receive antennas. This means that all two-meter amateur repeaters located on Squaw Mountain have virtually the same coverage.

This site is only accessible by snowcat during the winter months.

53.050 -- the 53.050 MHz (input -1.000 MHz) W0CRA/R six-meter repeater is one of the few six-meter repeaters operating in Colorado. The repeater is a split-site repeater with its receiver located on Conifer Mountain and its transmitter on Squaw Mountain.

This repeater requires a CTCSS tone of 107.2 Hz for access. The CTCSS tone on this repeater is present to prevent keyups from TV Channel 2's video noise present in the six-meter band in the Denver area. The repeater transmits a CTCSS tone of 107.2 Hz on its output that you may use to prevent local interference to your radio.

The repeater transmitter site is comprised of a General Electric Master II link receiver and repeater transmitter, an S-COM 5K controller and a quarter-wave ground plane mounted at the top of an 84-foot tower.

145.145 -- the 145.145 MHz (input -.600 MHz) W0CRA/R two-meter repeater is the rag-chew repeater of all rag-chew repeaters. For activity at all hours and discussions on almost all topics, this is the place to be! The 145.145 repeater averages 50 to 80 hours of use per week.

This repeater requires a CTCSS tone of 107.2 Hz for access. The repeater transmits a CTCSS tone of 107.2 Hz. You can program your radio to only receive signals with the tone to prevent reception of noise and intermod.

The repeater is comprised of a General Electric Master II repeater, ARR preamp, and an S-COM 7K controller. The repeater shares the Celwave transmitter combiner, receiver multicoupler and a pair of 9-db antennas with directional patterns aimed at Denver with the other Squaw Mountain two-meter repeaters.

145.385 -- the 145.385 MHz (input -.600 MHz) W0CRA/R two-meter repeater is a 1200-baud digital repeater. It is a real repeater, not a digipeater, so no digipeater callsign needs to be specified when connecting through it.

This repeater, like all CRA repeaters, is available for emergency communications. Public service organizations wishing to use the repeater should contact the CRA to discuss your planned operations and how to get the most from this wide area coverage repeater.

The repeater is comprised of a General Electric Master II repeater, an MFJ-1270C TNC operating as an identifier, and a KG7BZ Bit-Regenerator, the component that turns a TNC into a repeater. The repeater shares the Celwave transmitter combiner, receiver multicoupler and a pair of 9-db antennas with directional patterns aimed at Denver with the other Squaw Mountain two-meter repeaters.

Last Modified: 22 February 2003, Dave Maciorowski, WA1JHK

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