Dark Canyon – Cholla Amateur Remote Base Association

Dark Canyon, in the Guadalupe Mountains, overlooks Carlsbad Caverns and much of eastern New Mexico and far west Texas. It is the jumping off point for our links east to the Armadillo and Intertie networks in Texas.

The sign points the way	Looking down into the canyon
N5BG checks our the Kenwood cabling	The Tower
N5BG and N7CK checking out the Palomar controller	Duplexers and cavities
N5BG programming the Kenwood repeater	K9UL and the equipment rack.

Pictures from some previous expeditions to Dark Canyon:

SARBA	The Saguaro Amateur Remote Base Assn, is our neighbor to the north. We link to their site on Pinal Peak via a microwave link from our site on Mt. Bigelow.
JPARA	We share our site on Heliograph Peak with them. The Jack's Peak group has sites throughout New Mexico in locations such as Sandia Peak, Benson Ridge, Dark Canyon, Caballo Mountain and, in Arizona, on Guthrie Peak.
NERA	The Cactus affiliate in the Washington, D.C. area is NERA. We link to NERA via a NXU voip link.