Repeaters – Anchorage Amateur Radio Club

Go Ahead, Keep Us Informed!

Are you an IRLP god? A DMR god? A D-Star god? A Fusion god? An EME god? Are you a god of something amateur radio? If you are, or know...

By Kent Petty Published January 31, 2019 Amateur Satellites, APRS, Contesting, Direction Finding, DX, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RF Experiments, RSOC Operations, Volunteer

Update – Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

NOTE: Please see below. We had some problems with the form attached to this previous post, so I you submitted the form, we probably didn’t get it. We’re taking a different...

By Kent Petty Published September 4, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

There’s a great opportunity for our Raspberry Pi enthusiasts to take on an important and interesting project for the club. If successful, it might be something that many of our...

By Kent Petty Published August 31, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

New Multimode Digital Hotspot Goes LIVE!

A new multi-mode Anchorage digital hotspot has been installed and is running. The hotspot is located on the frequency of 446.500 MHz. The Hotspot covers D-STAR, DMR, Yaesu System Fusion...

By Dave Heimke Published June 20, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Repeaters, RF Experiments

Public Service Hands-on Training Opportunity

The annual Walk and Roll for Hope is tomorrow and the AARC is providing comm support for the event. The field crew is ready to deploy, and Brandon, KL7BSC, will...

By Kent Petty Published May 4, 2018 APRS, Education, Events, Public Service, Repeaters, RSOC Operations, Volunteer

Anchorage ARES Activates for Jan 23 Earthquake

When the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck at 0031L, local hams became active on the 147.30/90 repeater located atop Site Summit. As many of you know, this repeater covers a wide area...

By Kent Petty Published January 25, 2018 ARES, Public Service, Repeaters, Volunteer

Power Outage Takes Down Systems

A power outage struck parts of South Anchorage and the Anchorage Hillside a few days ago. The outage took down a few of our hillside assets for about 2 hours...

By Kent Petty Published October 30, 2017 ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

Grubstake Repeaters Back Online

It looks as though we may have a good fix in place for the Grubstake 2-meter (147.33+) and 440 (443.90+) repeaters. As you may know, the units have been off/on/offline...

By Kent Petty Published September 22, 2017 Repeaters

Site Summit Repeater Upgrades and MESH Install

A big work crew attacked the Site Summit 147.30/90 repeater site yesterday. Mike, KL7MD, facilitated site access and Dave, AL7LO led the effort to rewire the entire repeater and packet...

By Kent Petty Published September 17, 2017 ARES, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

Site Summit MESH Node – On the Horizon

Working Wednesday was productive tonight (9/6/2017) as a gang of us engineered an installation plan, built a Cat5e cable, set the down-angle tilt, upgraded AREDN firmware in the Ubiquiti M3...

By Kent Petty Published September 6, 2017 Mesh Networking, Repeaters, Working Wednesday

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