Updates

Staff was able to fly to the Elephant Tower on Tuesday, July 30th and repair the power outage for broadband, public safety radio and some TV. They will continue to monitor power to the site and be ready for any unforeseen problems.

Elephant Mountain Tower has experienced a power outage sometime Friday night July 26 or Saturday morning July 27th, possibly due to a lightning strike. Staff will be flying to this helicopter only site on Tuesday, July 30, to repair equipment that is damaged and return needed electrical power to the broadcasting equipment that runs public safety radio and broadband in the Crystal River Valley.

Update: All services have been restored at Crown following a successful generator replacement.

Staff will be replacing a back up generator at the Crown Mountain Tower Site on Monday, July 22. Power will have to be taken down as crews remove the old generator and install the new one. This will take a few hours in the morning and will disrupt the TV and FM broadcasting from this tower. Work will be done as quickly as possible in order to have the airwaves up and running for the rest of the day.

Our Pitkin County Telecom office is about to get more environmentally friendly with solar power being installed to our office in Basalt. Contractors plan to do electrical work on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 between 8am and noon, give or take any unexpected problems. This work requires the power to be shut down for our building. This will mean that channels 2, 20,  9 and 7 will be off the air during this time. Please be patient with us during this work. Upon completion of this solar project we will also be installing a back up generator so future power outages should not be major shut downs for our building and it’s broadcasting systems. 

Thanks for your continued support of our translator system.  

Staff will be working on the Elephant Tower site Thursday, May 16 8-5. TV and FM outages are expected.
Repair of a Pano wildfire camera will also take place.
Questions please call 970-920-5395 or email translator@pitkincounty.com

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