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Figure 13. 2008 Field Day Tour Stop at the SPDC Main Flume <br />LONG - DISTANCE NETWORK BACKBONE <br />During 2009, a component was added to the demonstration phase of the project to look at <br />potential benefits of a system extending beyond the SPDC and participating J & E <br />shareholders. A task to demonstrate the transmission range that can be provided by the <br />CDI equipment was carried out by establishing a series of repeater stations. Key <br />additions were repeater units on towers owned by KCI, a local internet provider based in <br />Sterling CO. <br />A CDI radio /control unit was installed on a KCI tower on the west edge of Fort Morgan. <br />From this site, it is possible to communicate with the SPDC office to the east, and with a <br />CDI repeater station that the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District ( NCWCD) <br />has established approximately 20 miles east of its office complex at Berthoud CO. <br />A second repeater was installed at what KCI calls its Peetz tower approximately 30 miles <br />northeast of Sterling. From this site, it is possible to communicate to the west with the <br />SPDC office. This site was also able to be contacted to the east from Julesburg during a <br />radio check using a mobile "ditch rider" unit. <br />Installation of repeaters at the two KCI towers provides the capability to transmit <br />information from Julesburg to the NCWCD office via repeats at the Peetz KCI tower, the <br />SPDC base, the Fort Morgan KCI tower, and the NCWCD repeater. Remote sites that <br />have been linked to this extended network include a recharge measurement site on the <br />Morgan Ditch system, and a recharge well owned by Roth Brothers near Goodrich. <br />Figure 10 is a map showing nodes of this communication path. <br />16 <br />