Club Repeaters – W7YRC
Our repeater committee, consisting of Pete Morrison, K6VVR, Robert Riester WA6FBA and John Laing K7PRS, maintains our repeater system.
146.880 (-), 100 Hz PL – Prescott repeater (sometimes referred to as Tanks because of the water tanks in its location). Allstar node: 603231.
447.650 (-), 100 Hz PL – Mt. Union repeater. Allstar node: 603230. This repeater was installed on Mt. Union on December 4, 2015 and moved to the ARES/RACES shed on October 15, 2016. This repeater should have good coverage for most of our members.
The Mt. Union repeater is connected to the Prescott repeater full time with auto reconnect. Each site is connected thru the HUB (Allstar node 603232). The Hub has Echolink and therefore can distribute to both the Mt. Union repeater and the Prescott repeater.
Bud N7CW installing the Scala repeater antenna on Mt. Union
ARES/RACES Emergency Use of 146.88 and 447.650 MHz Repeaters
YARC has entered into an understanding with the Yavapai County ARES/RACES organization about use of the W7YRC repeaters during emergencies and occasional emergency exercises. During an Office of Emergency Management (OEM) declared emergency or emergency exercise, ARES/RACES may determine that they need to have exclusive use of our repeater for emergency use. In this event, YARC officers will be notified and announcements of the emergency or emergency exercise will be made on the repeater frequency. YARC members and other hams will be requested to cease and refrain from all non-emergency communications on the repeater frequency until the emergency or emergency exercise is declared to be over by ARES/RACES officials. It should be noted that the need for our repeaters by ARES/RACES during an emergency is unlikely. The agreement would likely only be invoked if there were issues with the ARES/RACES repeaters themselves.
YARC Repeater List
Thanks to Creighton AD7YR and Jim Zimmerman N6KZ for coming up with a standard VHF/UHF frequency list for YARC members. Contact Creighton at radioprogramming@w7yrc.org to arrange an appointment.
Three Programming Lists
Radios that we are able to program. We have many of the cables to program the radios that are highlighted in yellow on the list. If your radio is not on this list, check with Creighton to see if he still might be able to help you.