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Working POCRG Repeaters
Newport area on Cooks Mountain:
- 2 meter: 147.120 + offset with 100 hz tone
- GMRS 70cm 462.675 + offset 141.3 tone (This is National GMRS calling channel)
Future Repeaters' Progress
November 13, 2020 from Mark Ford KA7LAS Pend
Oreille County Radio Group
147.120
repeater (on Cooks Mountain) is working great. Thanks to
all of you who
made this happen. Coverage goes east to Sandpoint and north to about
Blueslide. This is currently channel 22 on the POCRG programming
channel line up.
GMRS Repeaters:
We currently have one on Cooks
and that repeater is doing great (thanks
to Shannon for letting us use it and Karl for the tech help and antenna
mount). (POCRG 675 Is
up and running on Cooks. PL
141.3 Open Travel Repeater
CW ID WQQY298)
Shannon Mossman found a good deal on a GMRS repeater. I'm picking it up on ebay.
We currently have one
on Cooks and that repeater is doing great (thanks
to Shannon for letting us use it and Karl for the tech help and antenna
mount).
Another GMRS will
be located in Usk and a third in Priest River.
More
on that when we get them up and running. This will bridge comms with
folks who do not wish to get their ham radio license but may not be
opposed to getting their GMRS License. GMRS serves another purpose too.
It at times acts as a progressive approach to more involvement in
radios altogether. I've had many folks start with the BaoFengs and then
move on to better quality radios. Some folks start with GMRS then go on
to get their ham license.
Portable
GMRS Repeater:
The next GMRS repeater build will be a small tactical/portable repeater
which can be deployed just about anywhere. This can be used for
non-emergency events such as Down River Days, Pow-wow, and marathons to
emergency events such as SAR, power outages, evacuations, and
disasters. This unit will be made available to local fire and law
agencies as well as local community needs. The portable repeater should
be operational within the next 30 days.
2
Meter/440 repeaters from Ione
Karl, Shannon and I picked up the 2 meter and 440 repeaters from Ione.
Karl, our radio tech, will try to breathe life back into them.The
repeaters were donated to POCRG. We need to be sure to thank Carrie
(Jerry Spaulding's significant other) for donating them. I told her
there were 3 conditions to the donations. 1. We would do everything to
get them back on the air. 2. We would find a suitable location within
the Tiger/Ione Community so that the community would benefit from them.
3. They would be known officially/unofficially as the "Spaulding
Repeaters" in honor of Jerry.
Site
Locations / Site Surveys:
Karl did a preliminary trip to Abercrombie Peak, where we have
permission from the county to set up repeaters as needed. Abercrombie
is located north of Metaline at 7,000 feet and would make a great
location. He didn't make it all the way up due to the recent snow but
did get some preliminary data.
Finally, we will not turn away donations at this
time. GMRS repeaters are running just under 500.00 to build out. These
repeaters will allow interoperability between hams and those that are
non-licensed hams. Those folks can simply obtain a GMRS license through
the FCC, ULS via a FRN number first.