Hello Somebody help me out here? I am in NJ, southern Monmouth County. I hear a very strong signal on 446.575 FM identifying as KQ2H. It appears to be some kind of linked system as I hear stations from all over the US and some Europe. I have spent a considerable amount of time searching this online and cannot come up with any info for KQ2H in NJ. The 446.575 frequency is listed as West Orange NJ, but the listed PL does not work. I have tried to email KQ2H and get no reply and his QRZ page says to join the Yahoo group, but Yahoo groups got shut down in 2020. I have tried to detect the PL using an HT with a tone scanner utility and nothing shows up. The signal is very strong and it behaves just like any other repeater and it is apparently part of some linked system. So, how do I use this machine? Or does anyone know how I can contact the KQ2H system administrator? Thanks!
KQ2H system help
- Thread starter Hmaxim
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Might be a link frequency between two repeaters.
Listed where?
According to MetroCor, who is the amateur radio repeater coordinator for that part of New Jersey, there is no repeater coordinated on 446.575 in West Orange. Amateur radio repeater coordination is not required, so it's possible that someone is operating an uncoordinated repeater.
The KQ2H repeater system is a multi-site repeater system. It includes a 10M FM repeater so when 10 is open you will hear stations worldwide. Sites and freqs are here (scroll down to the section on KQ2H)
New York Repeater Directory
New York Repeater Directory
As popnokick has stated above, I have heard KQ2H a few times on the 10m repeater band when open.
nd5y
Member
It could be somebody's crossband repeater listening to one of the KQ2H frequencies or a RoIP node connected to it. Do you hear any other IDs on it?
I've heard KQ2H linked on 446.575 every so often. W2ODV has a repeater on the same frequency which is still online, although the link came across CSQ when I heard it.
KQ2H does have a repeater in NJ down that way on 449.175.
KQ2H does have a repeater in NJ down that way on 449.175.
I use the 449.175 on PL 77.0 - I Believe the receive is CSQ - that is the way I am configured.
I have emailed him once or twice, response can be extended, but he did get back to me at least once.
I have emailed him once or twice, response can be extended, but he did get back to me at least once.
We changed 446.575 to 445.175 two days ago. Until more hardware is obtained, 445.175 is simply repeating the network audio. There is no input equipment.......so you can't "get into" the repeater just yet.......
Have you an update? I used to be a member of Bayonne amateur radio club many years ago, knew some of the members included Robert JTT, but learned of his moving down to North Carolina and passing away. I called the Bayonne fire station and the club apparently was disbanded long ago. If you obtain a postal address could send a certified letter? People today are not like I am still today, today we forget how to communicate to each other directly. Behind their closed doors, with the window blinds closed.
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The W2ODV repeater on UHF and VHF is still on the air. I tried through my Bayonne public-safety contacts to find out who took it over and they had no clue.
Someone is still linking it on and off to KQ2H. Most of the time it repeats Alex's system but the other day it was only repeating Overlook (which I believe is still standalone) and it was one-way because I tried on the UHF side. So, all I got is someone is playing with it and has access.
Great signal too I should add.
Someone is still linking it on and off to KQ2H. Most of the time it repeats Alex's system but the other day it was only repeating Overlook (which I believe is still standalone) and it was one-way because I tried on the UHF side. So, all I got is someone is playing with it and has access.
Great signal too I should add.
Thanks. I remember they had a few repeater frequencies, but when I came across the UHF which is strange in its transmission and unable to get a decode tone to open the squelch. Robert, JTT, is the part of his callsign, I lost contact with him, and a thought crossed my mind, looked up the club callsign was still activated but attached to Robert, and he lived in North Carolina, but through searching discovered he had passed which is a real sad state cause I had hope of reunions of people from my past, but as life is, death is full circle.
truckinguy92
Newbie
I have found that a lot of these linked systems don’t transmit a PL tone on the output because a lot of the links use different PL tones for the input and then you get conflicting PL tones being decoded by the radios. So doing a PL tone search will yield nothing.
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