Mapping Ham Radio Repeaters
By Trip Ericson on Thursday, June 13 2013, 01:24 - News - Permalink
At some point, I had considered writing a feature for RabbitEars for mapping ham radio repeaters, since currently all that is readily available are books listing the city a repeater is in along with its frequency, tone, etc. The thought never really left my mind.
Until I found the repeater mapping tool that K5EHX had already written. For any ham radio operators interested in VHF/UHF repeaters, I strongly recommend checking it out and, if you have the appropriate information, contributing. The site is user-editable so, similar to Wikipedia, you can update data that you find that is incorrect or outdated. I made some corrections and even added a repeater that I knew was there but was not on his map.
If you want to check it out, here's the link: http://k5ehx.net/repeaters/qrepeater.php
Comments
I was about to say, there are so many resources for mapping ham repeaters, not to mention all the uncoordinated repeaters that are all over the map. The only problem with repeaters these days though is that they are deader than dead. I haven't checked into a repeater in a year or two. The last time I did was for the NYC Marathon with Steve W2ML (SK now).