12-25-2022
The Barlow Road was a historic overland route that allowed pioneers arriving
in Oregon over the Oregon Trail to travel from The Dalles, Oregon around the
South side of Mount Hood to Oregon City.
Permission was granted for construction by the Oregon Provisional
Legislature on December 17, 1845. Construction of the road was done by
summer of 1846 and about 75% of immigrants arriving in the Willamette
Valley from the East that year traveled the Barlow Road, avoiding the
dangerous rafting on the Columbia River required between The Dalles and
Fort Vancouver..
The WORC has named the new simulcast system after the Barlow Road
because the alignment of that historic road runs through the center of the
coverage area of the complete simulcast system.
These 2m repeaters will be operating stand alone for the majority of each day
but may/will be connected to the WORC local trunk for inclusion in the WORC
linked repeater system at the same times as the other 2m repeaters.
Barlow Road