The Red Lodge repeater started back in the spring of '74 and the original frequency was 146.940.  The building is a cinder block building with a wood shingled roof.   The original tower was an old TV tower and was about 20 feet high.  The original antenna was a HyGain vertical at the top.  The first repeater was an old tube type receiver and transmitter (which I can't remember much of) and the duplexer was home made out of 4" silver plated steel pipe that weighted a ton.  The duplexer is still in use at the Little Wolf site and is doing well.

The repeater changed frequency several years back due to an intermod problem in the Billings area by a local TV and Radio station transmitters.  This mix occurred in the front end of a lot of receivers and made it hard to listen to the repeater so the frequency was changed.  After a few different frequencies were tried, we finally landed on 147.360.

The repeater today is a Motorola Micor and the antenna is a "Uncle Don" special 4 dipole array and is side mounted on a 48 foot self supporting tower ( the tower is guyed due to high winds and flying trees).  The duplexer is a 4-can Wacom.  This repeater is linked to the 147.240 Little Wolf repeater, the 147.300 local repeater on Sacrifice Cliffs and the 145.410 repeater in the Bull Mountains.

	This is the 147.36 repeater building.  K7PO is seen here enjoying the day.
	A view of the tower looking up through all the link and packet antennas.
	Little cloudy but this is building and tower.  The top antenna is a 3 band vertical on 146, 220 & 440 band.  The 4 pole dipole is the repeater antenna.  The yagi's are the link antennas and the corner reflector is a UHF high speed packet link to Little Wolf.
	This is the Micor repeater and Mitrex link radios.  On the bottom is the battery bank.  The batteries will run the site for a couple of days.  The Wacom duplexer is above in the rafters.
	The Wacom 4 can duplexer.