Rugged 575 Yearly Operation Costs

This is the Go Fund Me / Donation page for the Rugged 575 GMRS repeater. This repeater costs $1560/year to keep online! With fees, that's ~ $1607/year via Go-Fund-Me.

If anyone is curious, I have a total of $8,888.07 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:

DB408 Antenna: $952.50

1-5/8" Feed Line for TX antenna: $1,327.20

Tower Climber: $1700 (I got lucky because they included the 6' stand-off bracket or that would have been another $500)

Clamps: $108.28

Grounding Kits x 2: $30.38

Backup Kenwood Repeater: $395

2 x Type N 1-5/8" Connectors: $227.36

2 x 105AH Lead acid batteries: $599

1500VA APC: $178.60

Repeater re-tuning: $200

Northcomm Cables: $200

Polyphaser: $120

Laptop to control repeater: $300

Programming cable: $20

Security Cameras: $77

Quantar Repeater: $1328.13

Quantar + Duplexer shipment costs to Mark and Back: $86.39

Quantar & Duplexer Tuning - Northcomm: $899.20

DC power revert cables: $139.03

Thank you all for your generous donations! :-)