An aerial view of Scott's Hill from March, 1999.
The UARC building is the second from the left.
(Photo courtesy of Norm Anderson, KC7YCA)
Updated December 5, 2005
To look at a full 360 degree panoramic view from atop the UARC
building, click here!
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The Plan:
UARC, the Utah Amateur Radio Club, is proposing to implement a linked repeater system to increase coverage of the 146.62 repeater. (Click here to read more about the Farnsworth '62 repeater.) The other end of this link will be located on Scott's Hill (above)
This site can see northeast into Wyoming, to the east into the Uinta mountains, and southeast toward Duchesne. This will provide coverage into Evanston, Heber, Park City, and many of the other high-valley communities in northeastern Utah. It should also provide better coverage into Cache valley than the current Farnsworth Peak site.
The site (on Scott's hill, which is west and north of Guardsman Pass) consists of a cinder-block and concrete slab building that has been abandoned for 20-plus years. The first order of business has been to secure the building, perform repairs and aesthetic improvements. This work has already begun! Only preliminary planning has been done to date and, as the certainty of being able to secure this site was, until recently, in great doubt, we have not made plans to install very much equipment on-site this year.
Little steps...
Progress has been made in fits and starts, but work continues...
The plan was to have installed and operating, during the winter of
2005 and into 2006, a repeater on-site using the 145.17 (minus offset)
repeater pair.
This repeater, using carrier squelch (that is, no tone) will use the
same
equipment that will be used for its ultimate reconfiguration as one of
a
pair of repeaters operating synchronously with and linked to the
Farnsworth
146.62 repeater. Unfortunately, unforseen circumstances delayed
final testing and installation until after the site became snowed-in
and inaccessible via normal 4-wheeled vehicles. It is likely that
this repeater will be put on the air in a valley location to provide
the testing, instead.
This repeater will provide coverage of the Park City area and the Heber valleys, and will have good coverage of many areas in the south and west slopes of the Uinta ranges. Additionally, it will also provide coverage into Southwest Wyoming and the I-80 corridor, giving coverage from the mouth of Parley's canyon to Evanston Wyoming, with spotty coverage continuing about halfway to Green River, Wyoming.
In 2006, the equipment on both Scotts Hill and Farnsworth Peak will
be upgraded: The frequency on Scotts will change to 146.62 and
this
repeater's transmitter will be synchronized with the one of Farnsworth,
providing seamless coverage over their combined coverage areas.
http://www.ussc.com/~uvhfs/other_rpt.html#Scotts_Hill - A description of the 145.27- repeater, another repeater on Scott's Hill in a nearby building, with more pictures.