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Author Topic: Repeater announcements  (Read 1034 times)

Elf36

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Repeater announcements
« on: January 30, 2022, 1823 UTC »
I remember hearing repeaters with voice ID's etc back being very common in the 90s, but don't typically hear many, But after programming some new repeaters outside of my county. I realized there are still many that call with voice announcements of the repeater cal sign, Good morning, afternoon, evening etc and also current time. I just picked up a repeater that was announcing info about DXexpeditions on a program, called Amateur news log (Or line). Never heard that before? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was almost like listening to a shortwave broadcast.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2022, 2116 UTC by Elf36 »

Offline RobRich

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Re: Repeater announcements
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2022, 2125 UTC »
If you have a scanner or similar attached to an outdoor antenna, add the common 10m repeater frequencies. It has been quite a long time since I last bothered, but I did used to occasionally hear 10m repeater activity from even as far away as New England.

That said, I might do that later tonight. I have a couple of older non-trunking scanners collecting dust anyway.
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Re: Repeater announcements
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2022, 0251 UTC »
Yeah. I think I might get an older scanner for stuff like that one of these days. Just a simple set-up. No trunking etc needed. I'd like to use it for satellite, 2M simplex, and 10M FM as well.

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Re: Repeater announcements
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2022, 0406 UTC »
Just dug out my old Uniden BC355N. Still working. Been listening to local CB activity, and now on NOAA just make sure one of my 18' end-fed verticals will suffice for local VHF in the meantime. I have a small discone that needs deployed sometime. Maybe when it warms up a little.

An inexpensive RTL-SDR would accomplish much the same, and while direct sampling of HF leaves much to be desired, thankfully the common R820T/2 models often can receive down to around 24MHz in their proper native sampling mode.
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