Our club was founded 16 years ago on the principle of helping our community and furthering our members’ education in the ever changing world of Amateur Radio.

Our club provides communications support for our community: supporting the North Fork 50 Mile Ultra Marathon Race, the Colorado Relay, the Race for Peace benefitting the Mountain Peace Shelter for victims of domestic abuse, the Bailey Hundo 100 mile mountain bike race and both the Fairplay and Leadville Burro Races.

All of the events we support challenge our abilities to communicate in tough terrain. The environment challenges all of us and tests our radios and antennas. We have learned that in most cases simplex works just fine, as long as we learn how to relay stations that may not be heard by the NCS in our events. Repeaters are great but if commercial power goes down they are not of much use. If a big mountain gets in the way repeaters may not be of much use, either.

Our club is small club with members all over the country. We are currently working to provide an Echolink link into our repeater system. Our hope is to bring our members together from all over the country and anyone else who would like to participate in our weekly nets on Wednesday nights at 7:30 p.m. (local time).

We have a repeater on 146.895 that is serving the county east of Kenosha Pass. Our other repeater on 147.090 is currently located in Como, CO on the west side of Kenosha Pass. These machines used to be linked up. However through a series of events beyond our control the two machines became delinked. Our biggest goal this year is to get these machines re-linked so we have seamless communications throughout Park County, Colorado.

We welcome all licensed radio amateurs who would like to participate. Please come and join us on our Wednesday evening net at 7:30 p.m. on the 146.895 repeater. Join us at our club meetings in the odd numbered months. Please check out the website for further information on the exact dates and times - http://www.ab0pc.org/events.php.

We also offer a regular VE session before the club meeting for those who are looking for a quiet and relaxed environment to take their first test to become an amateur radio operator or upgrade a license. We are ARRL certified. Thank you for visiting us!!

73’s
Brian/NØVSA
President