Wagga Amateur Radio Club (WARC) - new 6metre Repeater on-air VK2RBE

 Wagga Amateur Radio Club (WARC) - new 6metre Repeater on-air VK2RBE  

Just learnt that a new repeater has been commissioned at Mt.Bethungra, near Bethungra, north of Junee,

operating on 53.825  with -1MHz input, no ctcss tone required and it standalone, as of June 2024.

Follow details on the WARC website Repeaters - Wagga Amateur Radio Club

Just thinking about it, I havent done any trips to Young/Cootamundra/Junee/Wagga/Tumut since 2023, hence not tried out this repeater mobile yet.

Since this new 6metre repeater is co-sited with the VK2RBE 2metre repeater on 146.675MHz,  then it is possible it will be accessible from the Hume Highway in the Jugiong-Coolac region for those traversing the Hume Highway with 6metre FM in the mobile, otherwise should be good coverage on the Olympic Highway in Junee-Bethungra-Cootamundra section.

Wagga Amateur Radio Club repeaters (WARC)

 Did a trip down to Tumut last weekend,   stayed out east of Tumut at Elm Cottages, Little River  Road,  beautiful countryside, and currently it is green all the way from Sydney to Tumut,  which is different than a couple years ago, or even less, where it is brown hills all the way.

Anyway, repeaters, I made sure I had the frequencies added in memory  for the trip, VK1RGI 146.950 MHz,  VK2RYG 146.875 MHz,  VK2RBE 146.775 MHz, VK2RWG 146.650, VK2RTD 146.800 MHz, I heard activity driving down the Hume Highway,  but strength of the repeaters on the Hume Highway not all the great,   Ginini  was there along the Goulburn-Yass-Browning section, but surprisingly there are a few shadows along the highway to Gundagai.  I couldnt find 146.800 in Tumut, as explained below

Also drove up to Kiandra, everything was burnt from fire last summer.  Could not get Mt Ginini 146.950  that was a big surprise, not get picked up on APRS from there either.

 I did a search on WARC and here are the details, does not seem to be any 70cm repeaters:

VK2RWG – 146.750 MHz – located at Wheel of Fortune Hill, East of Wagga Wagga. 

VK2RBE – 146.775 MHz – located at Mt Bethungra, North of Junee. 

VK2RTD – 146.800 MHz – (currently off air) located at Mt Tumorrama, Tumut 

VK2RGA – 146.825 MHz – (currently off air) (Lockhart)