Sunday, September 24, 2023

VK2RBT 70cm DMR-analogue FM repeater

 I overheard some hams talking about a repeater covering Cowra area.  That got my attention as I wandered through Cowra a few times in recent trips out west.

I know of existing repeaters  VK2RKG 146.900 at Kelso, linked with VK2RCW 147.200 at Gowan, plus I know of the repeater network for WARC, (Wagga ARC) Repeaters - Wagga Amateur Radio Club (warc.org.au)   and their most northern repeater in their network is VK2RYL 146.875 MHz near Young.

Anyway, I did some searching and discovered there is VK2RBT out at near Wyangala that covers that Cowra area.  I had sort of wondered if there might be someone else put up a 2metre repeater and link it with the WARC network. Maybe one day.

Anyway, looking up repeaters gave me VK2RBT  and the WACRS group.wacrs.org – Wyangala Amateur and Citizens Radio Society. This yielded good info, glad to see some hams out that way getting a repeater network up and running. VK2RBT is currently a 70cm repeater, dual mode, DMR on the VK-DMR network, plus FM analogue  requiring 91.5Hz CTCSS tone on input. The Output is 438.825 MHz and input is 431.825 MHz (-7.0Mhz)

Here is hoping they can get some more repeaters up and running.

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