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Repeater lists
bryanthegoon:
Question for everyone out there, where do you get your repeater lists for vhf/uhf?
I know alot of the guys here swear by the K5EHX site http://k5ehx.net/repeaters/qrepeater.php My experience with it has been mixed, I have been able to discover a number of repeaters that were not listed there as well as a number of typos/missing information (bad pl codes, bad offset, ...). That being said there is an ease of use with how they export...
The local (in my case AZ) repeater coordinator had a list, but it was not in a very usable format, and I was able to find a number of repeaters listed there that either were in some way or another no longer up/available.
Of course there are the ARRL repeater directories, I do not have a current copy at the moment to make any comparisons as to how complete they are (the copy I have is dated like 1990).
Now I understand that the K5EHX site seems to have good info for any of the commonly used repeaters. And in most cases that does the job, but I am the kind of guy that wants to make sure I have all my options available. If there is an emergency (whether personal or broader scale) I don't want to limit my opportunities, for making contact, in any way that I can avoid. So just curious what other guys are using to get their "list". This topic is of particular interest to me is I tend to spend alot of time in more remote/rural areas and this seems to be where K5EHX has the most errors/omissions. I was able to hit a number of repeaters in remote areas that were listed on the repeater coordinator site but not in K5EHX, and likewise corrected some PL codes ( which I actually went back to K5EHX and corrected on their site after getting the values from the repeater coordinator (and testing).
The comment may be made that many of the repeaters that aren't listed in some places probably get limited use... that being said there are many that have autopatch available, or have links to other repeaters that can be brought up, or you never know you might not be able to hit anything else and the guy that put up this repeater is listening just because it is "his" repeater.... If I am laying on a trail with a broken leg, or my vehicle is broken down in a remote area (with young children in the car) I want any option I can get to make some kind of contact. or likewise in a SHTF situation where primary comms locations are in some way taken out, knowing the "path less traveled" so to speak could be a boon (assuming you can get that information to others).
I am by no means trying to start any kind of flame war, just wanting to start a discussion on what options are out there and to know if I am missing anything. For local type stuff I can play and fine tune my list at my leisure, but I often spend time in remote areas quite a ways from home and don't always have the luxury of lots of time to play and refine the list before I may be in an emergency situation. I would rather have a few frequencies in my list that don't work than to not have the one that saves my life.
AD:
BTG
The good thing about k7ehx, is that he asks for corrections to,his database if you find anything amiss
Here is the AZ cood site and those should be pretty upto date
http://www.azfreqcoord.org/listings.htm
Then nice thing about the K5ehx/RT Systems software, is that you can easily amend the spread sheet very easily to correct or add any issues.
bryanthegoon:
Hi AD,
Those are all good points, I have already made corrections to K7EHX for a few things, and I don't see any problems with working that way for "local"/AZ stuff.
Just a quick example for my concerns, and the reason for the post.... This weekend my son and I will be in a remote part of southern Colorado on a fishing trip (an area that I have never been to before). I have already been informed that this area does not have cell phone coverage. Going into this area I want to be as prepared as possible (especially given current fire conditions), but don't have the luxury of playing with my list, I will have whatever list of repeaters I take with me.
AD:
Cross reference with these
http://www.artscipub.com/repeaters/states/Colorado.asp
http://www.levinecentral.com/repeaters/google_mapping.php?State=CO
bryanthegoon:
--- Quote from: AD on June 26, 2012, 11:54:16 AM ---Cross reference with these
http://www.artscipub.com/repeaters/states/Colorado.asp
http://www.levinecentral.com/repeaters/google_mapping.php?State=CO
--- End quote ---
Nice I will definitely check these out
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