On Dec 23, 2023, at 5:07?PM, D Dale Beaty Jr, N6ZCM <ddalebeatyjr@...> wrote:

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Hello All!!!
First I have to say going with Charlie to Hogback is always an Adventure!!
Couple trips back we got to the top and could not open the door to the shack.
We used his winch, we beat on it! It was quite cold, we thought it was frozen shut.
We almost pulled the whole frame out of the building LOL!!!
Next trip we tried again, then SOMEONE had the idea to turn the handle!
BOOM the door opened!!! No one has ever used the handle, so some hiker, we guess, tried the handle and turned to the Lock position!!?

This trip 12/23/23 (20 degrees) the gate at the bottom was really frozen the key would not tun, so Charlie had a shop vac we used the hose, Charlie held it against the vent of his Jeep with the Heater on Full heat and Fan speed, I held that FROZEN lock (brrrrr) and held the other end to it and heated it up, took all of 5 minutes and the Key turned lock opened, THEN the gate Pin that holds the gates together was Ice frozen, this time Charlie kicked about 4 times BOOM pin came out!!
Hey, but the door of the building opened right UP!!!

SO I swapped out the Motorola RKR-1225 (it was having some serious problems) with a Kenwood TKR-850 35 watt repeater. All went well, till we tried to test with someone in K-Falls... no one could get in or hear it!!! WHAT?????
Oh crap put the TX cable to the RX of the duplexer and the RX to the TX!!!
DOHHHHH... swapped the...? Yeah?it is WORKING!!
So back in operation linked to East Klamath County, Douglas County in Sutherlin and 3 repeaters in the Medford/Grantspass?area along with Cave Junction.
6 GMRS Repeaters linked the 7th one in Phoenix/Ashland coming online in the next few weeks!

Wish to express my sincere appreciation to Charlie and K-Bar-A !
Without all of you, my dream of having a repeater?system in Klamath County would not have happened!!!
I was able to talk on the New DMR repeater from Beatty, my FIRST DMR contact EVER was Dennis in Sprague River. Thank You Dennis!!
A lot of neat things coming in the future!!
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D. Dale Beaty, Jr.

818 652 1298

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