Crete 600 Yearly Operation Costs

This is the Go Fund Me / Donation page for the Crete 600 Midwest GMRS linked repeater.

This repeater costs $1944/year to keep online! With fees, that's ~ $1992/year via Go-Fund-Me. From now on, this will be the permanent donation page for the ongoing costs to keep the Crete 600 in the air.

If anyone is curious, I have a total of $6,551.49 invested just to get it in the air. What I'm looking for is the yearly operational costs to KEEP it in the air. The breakdown is below:

DB420 Antenna: $1,487.50

Quantar: $1,100.00

Tower Climber: $600.00 (I got lucky because the feed-line was already on the tower paid by someone else which would have cost $2000 in labor + the cost of the cable to install)

RTCM + Cable from Micro-Node - Mark: $330.95

Quantar + Duplexer shipment costs to Mark and Back: $113.10

Quantar & Duplexer Tuning - Northcomm + Cables: $684.44

Duplexer - 65534/ENC: $800.00

Polyphaser VHF50HN: $120.00

Router: $200.00

Used laptop for server rack for remote admin: $244.12

Programming cable: $20.00

2 x Wyze security cameras: $77.00

Misc parts, rack nuts, shelves: $115.56

New 1048 PSU with 1047 PSU trade-in: $280.00

DC power revert cables: $100.00

Misc hardware from Menards: $80.00

1500VA Battery backup: $198.82

Thank you all for your generous donations! :-)