Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
Devin WRFK332
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Jamie! This is awesome news! Great work and thanks for the heads up. I'll test and see if I can reach itfrom my home QTH today.
Can you share any further details about the equipment and configurationup there? Geeks wanna know!
Devin H.
WRFK332
N7IQZ
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:04 PM Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH <wa7jh@...> wrote:
Good afternoon,
Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
Devin WRFK332
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Hey Jamie,
Circling back with a QSO report. I'm able to get into your machine from Union Hill, Redmond pretty well and other than some hiss / sizzle on the return, it sounds great! I linked up with 916 on the air as he was on his HT andable to talk with me!
I'm monitoring the frequency for further testing traffic. Great job man!
Devin H.
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:04 PM Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH <wa7jh@...> wrote:
Good afternoon,
Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
tim lamey
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Hey, a new repeater. Thanks for sharing and adding another repeater. I mostly listen in and thought I head some interesting traffic the other day on 17 and that would definitely explain it.
I did get into the repeater from Alderwood mall area, but from my kitchen only, house feradey issues. I was on a kg805g and it sounds good.
Jamie! This is awesome news! Great work and thanks for the heads up. I'll test and see if I can reach itfrom my home QTH today.
Can you share any further details about the equipment and configurationup there? Geeks wanna know!
Devin H.
WRFK332
N7IQZ
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:04 PM Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH <wa7jh@...> wrote:
Good afternoon,
Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
Rich Salter
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Cool deal Jamie!
Gold mountain should provide fantastic coverage, it's an excellent site!
73
Rich WQOG473
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 12:38 PM tim lamey <timlamey2@...> wrote:
Hey, a new repeater. Thanks for sharing and adding another repeater. I mostly listen in and thought I head some interesting traffic the other day on 17 and that would definitely explain it.
I did get into the repeater from Alderwood mall area, but from my kitchen only, house feradey issues. I was on a kg805g and it sounds good.
Jamie! This is awesome news! Great work and thanks for the heads up. I'll test and see if I can reach itfrom my home QTH today.
Can you share any further details about the equipment and configurationup there? Geeks wanna know!
Devin H.
WRFK332
N7IQZ
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:04 PM Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH <wa7jh@...> wrote:
Good afternoon,
Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
Zach Hanson WRTQ402 - KK7MXP
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I was able to key it up from my house in south Marysville / Lake Stevens! scratchy on my portable but good on my base! Awesome!! -- Zach- WRTQ402
Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH
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Devin and all,
The repeater is a 50-watt capable Hytera RD982 Analog only wideband licensed repeater. It is outputting 30 watts into a combiner. There is ~20 watts headed to the antenna. The antenna is a simple dual folded dipole array at about 60 feet above the ground with about 3dB of gain. The RX antenna is a Station master feeding a receive multicoupler that has a preamp on it so it is very likely that this configuration is perfect, if you can hear it, you can get into it.
I’m just happy to offer another option to the GMRS community. I traded for this repeater. This repeater was originally intended for amateur use in the PDX area, however, there was desire to provide DMR functionality there, so I traded a DMR wideband licensed repeater for this one. For the hams out there, that enjoy DMR and want worldwide connectivity, check out this repeater map and website.
From: seatacgmrs@groups.io <seatacgmrs@groups.io> On Behalf Of Devin WRFK332 Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 12:11 PM To: seatacgmrs@groups.io Subject: Re: [seatacgmrs] GMRS - Gold Mt Repeater Deployed - RPT-17 CTCSS 210.7
Jamie! This is awesome news! Great work and thanks for the heads up. I'll test and see if I can reach itfrom my home QTH today.
Can you share any further details about the equipment and configurationup there? Geeks wanna know!
Devin H.
WRFK332
N7IQZ
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:04 PM Jamie H / WRPC310 / WA7JH <wa7jh@...> wrote:
Good afternoon,
Per a conversation with other repeater owners, I was guided to deploy on the Repeater 17 pair. This repeater is open to all. It is located on Gold Mt. At some point this repeater will be donated to the Kitsap County Amateur Radio Club and will fall under them for its operations. It will also support Community EMCOMM operations for the KCDEM.
Again, please use!!!!!!!
Dave WRHU871
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Thank you for another high-quality GMRS Repeater. I live and work not far from its location and made contact via HT and Mobile. Very clean signal even at 1w. I can hardly wait to do some wandering around and test its propagation. Having another repeater servicing the Kitsap/Olympic Peninsula will be a welcome addition, we could use a few more.
Although limited to one band, a GMRS repeater has a bit more latitude as to who can use it and how they must identify the repeater station. Ham repeaters are limited to individually licensed ham radio operators with valid amateur radio call signs.
Not all of our repeaters have a courtesy tone. More advanced repeater systems will provide information by courtesy tone. Some repeaters will give a tone that does up or down in pitch according to how well your signal is to the repeater.
To access a repeater you need to have its Frequency entered into your radio, have its transmit Offset set correctly and have the right CTCSS Tone turned on.
In telecommunications, Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System or CTCSS is one type of in-band signaling that is used to reduce the annoyance of listening to other users on a shared two-way radio communication channel.
One of the main benefits of using a GMRS repeater is that it can significantly increase the range of communication. While the range of a handheld GMRS radio is typically around 1-2 miles, a GMRS repeater can extend it up to 5 miles-20 miles or more.
After you stop transmitting, you will usually hear the unmodulated repeater carrier for a second or two. This squelch tail lets you know that the repeater is working.
How do you know what CTCSS tone you need to access a particular repeater? Well, one way to do this would be to check a repeater directory. If the repeater is operated by an amateur radio club, you could look up this information on the club's website. Some repeaters will even announce the CTCSS tone that it requires.
The GMRS spectrum is broken up into 22 channels, which are shared with FRS, with 8 additional repeater channels (15R-22R) that are exclusive to GMRS and may only be used by licensed GMRS operators. GMRS frequencies range from 462.5625 to 467.7250. Find out more about the GMRS license process here.
FRS radios frequently have provisions for using sub-audible tone squelch (CTCSS and DCS) codes, filtering out unwanted chatter from other users on the same frequency.
Color Code (0 to 16) is the equivalent of CTCSS for digital. It's used to isolate a population of users (a company, an association, a family, ...). By convention CC1 is used for public contact.
I was expecting a discussion of why one would use CTCSS versus DCS, but that was unfortunately lacking from this presentation. That is because it is a simple difference. As explained in the video, they both perform the same function, except one does it using an analog tone and the other a digital code.
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