West Metro feed goes silent for hours

[lazierfan]

Two radios in the house, normally pegged at five bars' signal, went silent today. Only VHF from Evergreen made it over the RR feed.

Solar Flares? Mt Morrison tower switching? I can't find any information.

 

[greenthumb]

Doubtful on solar flares - plenty of other 800 feeds in the area were going strong.

 

[rfburns]

Green Mtn CC 851.7125 is normal strength and the system sounds normal.
Mt. Morrison CC 851.0875 is very, very weak here. 1 bar on an antenna and I usually hear it without an antenna.

Mt. Morrison channel grants are occuring normally. I'm guessing there's a problem on the transmit power side after the transmitters. I've seen 18 affiliations in about 8 minutes so the rcv side looks OK. Mostly central and north units, NREL and a couple of WMFR.

Is anyone hearing it down on the flats? It could be on a test antenna down real low.

 

[lazierfan]

Status: zero bars of signal 07:00.

 

[lazierfan]

Last post:
Switched to Green Mountain repeater, Mt Morrison must be undergoing maintenance. It is a shame because Mt. Morrison is stronger at my location.

 

[rfburns]

It must be fixed. I drove around Lakewood with Mount Morrison locked in the last few hours and up to the Chief Hosa area and 851.0875 and the voice channels are 5 bars again in most areas. Even the areas on Jewell and on Mississippi that get bad reports from users have lots of signal off of Morrison.