Station W0EQO, which has operated from Camp Courage North since 2009, is set to go off the air in early August 2015.
The station has been in almost continuous operation from Summer 2009 though today, summer and winter, through broiling hot days and subzero cold of our bone-chilling Minnesota winters, all in an unheated and uncooled attic IT closet at the residential camp. When you think about the rig control PC running that long under such difficult conditions, you have to wonder how it didn’t just give up the ghost!
Of course there were outages, some minor when the power or internet dropped, others longer when there was a networking problem to be solved. Most everything eventually got fixed by volunteers like Lyle, K0LR, and Bill, N0CIC. We are so grateful for their help in keeping this resource available to our members over the years.
The station may be going off the air for now, but it will come back again with a new host computer and a better location. We will take it off the air in early August, transporting it to the Twin Cities for rehabilitation and a new host computer.
While we are working on the station, it will be set up with new hosting software from www.remotehams.com. It will be much more reliable with new hardware and software and will no longer require Skype for the audio. We are grateful to Stan, W4MQ, for the use of his software over the years. Following the decommission of W0EQO, we will no longer support or offer the W4MQ software at this website. The new stations will use the Remotehams.com RCFORB software.
We will provide news updates on this site.
