Narrative:

On takeoff out of abq the first officer (first officer) was flying. The sun was coming up and illuminating the terrain. We departed runway 8 with a right turn issued to us to a south heading. The first officer extended the runway heading a little longer than I was used to prior to the south turn. As we were in the turn I noticed that the left pack pressure was falling off and I began to look for a problem. My first thought was to check for an engine failure. It was performing fine and within all normal parameters and the pack settled. As we were climbing south I attempted to contact departure control with no answer. Then as I was rechecking the freq and calling the abq tower to verify the freq; we had a terrain warning occur. I noticed that our climb rate was slow. I immediately advised the first officer to accelerate the climb and the warning promptly ceased. We were VFR and I was watching the terrain outside. We were on the west side of the terrain paralleling it down a south track through the valley. There was a small hill just off to our left. I believe this might have caused the alert. This event resulted while we had multiple factors calling for our attention. After we reached our cruising altitude and completed the checklist the first officer and I reviewed all of the items that lead up to the warning. We agreed we should be more vigilant and maybe a little more descriptive in our duties on such a busy departure with multiple events happening near the same time. Also the frequency confusion was because the ACARS printer looked like 123.3 because of light print on the left side of the 9. It should have been set to 123.9.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported receiving a terrain alert departing ABQ in day VFR conditions when they were distracted by a minor problem with a pack.

Narrative: On takeoff out of ABQ the F/O (First Officer) was flying. The sun was coming up and illuminating the terrain. We departed runway 8 with a right turn issued to us to a south heading. The F/O extended the runway heading a little longer than I was used to prior to the south turn. As we were in the turn I noticed that the left pack pressure was falling off and I began to look for a problem. My first thought was to check for an engine failure. It was performing fine and within all normal parameters and the pack settled. As we were climbing south I attempted to contact departure control with no answer. Then as I was rechecking the freq and calling the ABQ tower to verify the freq; we had a terrain warning occur. I noticed that our climb rate was slow. I immediately advised the F/O to accelerate the climb and the warning promptly ceased. We were VFR and I was watching the terrain outside. We were on the west side of the terrain paralleling it down a south track through the valley. There was a small hill just off to our left. I believe this might have caused the alert. This event resulted while we had multiple factors calling for our attention. After we reached our cruising altitude and completed the checklist the F/O and I reviewed all of the items that lead up to the warning. We agreed we should be more vigilant and maybe a little more descriptive in our duties on such a busy departure with multiple events happening near the same time. Also the frequency confusion was because the ACARS printer looked like 123.3 because of light print on the left side of the 9. It should have been set to 123.9.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.