Posted: 1/16/2011 2:19:47 PM EDT
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Ok I have all the local repeaters set up and I enjoy this quite a bit.
But my question is if Im traveling out of the area of my local repeaters how do I find repeaters out of my area. Or can I even do this on the radio or do Ihave to know all the feqs. and program them in ahead of time. Go easy Im a big time noob. thanks |
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that is what I figured. |
Depending on your radio, you may have search capability as well. ie: My Yaesu FT-8800 has Smartsearch which will auto-fill a special 25 channel bank of active channels where it detects activity when I move into a new area. If ARS is active (Automatic Repeater Shift) it pre-fills in the shifts too. I don't know that it will automatically fill in PL tone info, however, as I've never bothered fiddling with it since I use it as a base station 
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| you can also look them up online along the route of your trip. http://k5ehx.net/repeaters/qrepeater.php its not 100% but close enough. |
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Depending on your radio, you may have search capability as well. ie: My Yaesu FT-8800 has Smartsearch which will auto-fill a special 25 channel bank of active channels where it detects activity when I move into a new area. If ARS is active (Automatic Repeater Shift) it pre-fills in the shifts too. I don't know that it will automatically fill in PL tone info, however, as I've never bothered fiddling with it since I use it as a base station Some rigs have "tone scan" that will detect the tones automatically. |
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But my question is if Im traveling out of the area of my local repeaters how do I find repeaters out of my area. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=10&f=22&t=604477#10323243 ar-jedi |
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A scan would work best. I travel a lot and have found that lots of places have 20 repeaters and people only use one. Or there might be suburbs you don't know the name of. I know for a fact that between Cinci and Dayton that most of not all freqency pairs possible are taken. However if you were to scan those over a period of several hours you wouldn't find more than 3 being used. Following that same thought, think of all the trouble you'd go through pulling up those freqs one by one to find NOTHING. Scanning is probably the way to go. Hearing a live person is a lot better than having the info for repeaters that do nothing more than use electricty. |
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However if you were to scan those over a period of several hours you wouldn't find more than 3 being used. Following that same thought, think of all the trouble you'd go through pulling up those freqs one by one to find NOTHING. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=10&f=22&t=642701   ... 
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Another good database I found is:
http://www.repeaterbook.com/repeaters/index.php?state_id=none Has some great search features, excellent for planning a trip. I found it when I was searching for echolink repeaters. |