| You can see the North Wake Expressway,
under construction just behind the tower. This picture was taken
in late 1999. This piece of road, between Creedmore Rd. and Six-Forks
Rd., opened in early 2001.
In 1994, this was just a rumor as we sat
happily on the old tower.
Then the rumor came true.
The old tower sat just a few feet to the
left of our little building. But one if its guy-wire anchor points
sat right in the roadbed, about in the middle of this picture.
We removed the repeater equipment the night
after the 1998 RARSfest (April 5th), and the tower was torn down
a few weeks later. The 146.64 machine moved to the NC tower across
from the Fairgrounds, and came back on the air in May, 1999. These
machines finally returned to the air on October 28, '99. The 444.525
controller took a lightning hit in early 2000, and it's taken a while getting
it back on the air.
It took a lot of negotiating to find homes
for these repeaters. Thanks go to Bernard W4BRB, who did the negotiating
- it was a lot of work behind the scenes. And thanks also to Alltel,
a company that "supports" many Amateur Radio repeaters on their towers
across the US. |
