We now have two new Summit County Meshcore repeaters. At right is a photo showing some of the likely new coverage area. These repeaters might provide Meshcore coverage in parts of Breckenridge, and should also provide high quality line-of-sight coverage to the radio hut area of Baldy Mountain.
I am delighted to report that these two repeaters have high quality line-of-sight connectivity to lots “neighbor” repeaters. Here is a table listing signal-to-noise ratios for connections from these two new repeaters to quite a few existing repeaters.
| SNR to neighbor (5 or better is really good) |
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| neighbor | CO-SUM-R08 | CO-SUM-V08 |
| CO-SUM-HAM | 12.25 | 12.5 |
| CO-SUM-S08 | 9.5 | 11.5 |
| CO-SUM-MOB-C63D | 10.5 | 11 |
| CO-SUM-C08 | 10.75 | 9.5 |
| CO-SUM-W08 | 9.5 | 9.5 |
| CO-SUM-T08 | 8 | 9.75 |
| CO-SUM-P08 | 8 | 8.25 |
| CO-SUM-MESA | 9.75 | 2.75 |
| CO-SUM-LH | 6.75 | 4.75 |
| CO-SUM-FP | 8 | 3 |
| CO-SUM-R08 | 12.25 | |
| CO-SUM-V08 | 11.5 | |
The alert reader will note that the highest quality link is to the repeater that is farthest away — HAM which is 7 miles (11 km) away. I am delighted to be able to mention that the volunteer who provides the hosting of the HAM repeater was one of the volunteers on yesterday’s hike to deploy these two repeaters. And as it turns out, much of the success of the siting of the repeaters was due to very smart suggestions about siting from that volunteer.
It is also notable that R08 and V08 have high quality links with each other.
These repeaters are from my new crop of one-watt repeaters (blog article).
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