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Show Radio Repeater Move Leaves County Ambulance Silent Lack of a Forest Service use permit precipitated the move of an emergency services communications repeater Aug. 27, leaving 3 counties without ambulance and other communications. com-munications. District Ranger Dahl Zohner reported last week, however, that upon receipt of written permission for the installation of the repeater equipment in the state communications building buil-ding on Bald Mesa and the completion of other papers, the repeater should be moved. A letter authorizing the move into that building was received Tuesday from Craig Jorgensen, tele-communications coordinator for the state, and new applications for a special use permit were to be completed and received in Moab Wednesday, at which time it appeared the emergency emergen-cy services would be in compliance with Forest Service Serv-ice regulations, and the repeater could be moved. It has been housed, contrary to regulations, in the Continental Contin-ental Telephone communications communica-tions building on Bald Mesa in the LaSal Mountains up until Aug. 27, when the equipment was ordered moved to Abajo Peak in the Blue Mountains near Monticello. Although technicians had voiced hope that some communications com-munications would be possible from the Abajo Peak location, this proved false; and the Grand County ambulances, Carbon County mental health, and Emery County ambulance have been without communications communi-cations capabilities since the move. Ranger Zohner has stated that although other users on Bald Mesa would have to be officially contacted and given opportunity to comment, it appeared the repeater could be moved back to Bald Mesa, at least on an interim basis, in the near future. |