jim202
Member
Another sore spot about repeater information is that the clubs or individuals don't seem to care if the correct information for their repeater is published or not.
There use to be local repeater information published by many of the local ham clubs. But for some reason, this information is not in most of the club web sites. Blame it on laziness or an I don't care attitude. But the effort of obtaining local repeater information is getting to the point of near impossible. You might find the frequency information, but the CTCSS (PL) tone required to be able to key the repeater missing or wrong in most if not all the repeater database web sites you can find. Also not all repeater input and output is on standard splits. You will run into some that use an odd ball split or go in the wrong direction for the split. The 147.000 output is a common frequency that can be either plus or minus for the input.
I am one that does a good deal of traveling and my best source of information is to talk with someone on a repeater or simplex and ask about the local repeaters. As I find that correct information, I put it into my mapping program so I have it for future trips. I can also re program my radios at night, before hitting the sack.
I use to pass along the updated information to the different database web sites, but found it was not helping to get the information changed. So I stopped sending the correct information to the site owners. As the old saying goes, "you can't fix stupid" and "you can't fix an I don't care attitude".
Good luck on your efforts on getting an updated database that has the usable information you need for your trips.
There use to be local repeater information published by many of the local ham clubs. But for some reason, this information is not in most of the club web sites. Blame it on laziness or an I don't care attitude. But the effort of obtaining local repeater information is getting to the point of near impossible. You might find the frequency information, but the CTCSS (PL) tone required to be able to key the repeater missing or wrong in most if not all the repeater database web sites you can find. Also not all repeater input and output is on standard splits. You will run into some that use an odd ball split or go in the wrong direction for the split. The 147.000 output is a common frequency that can be either plus or minus for the input.
I am one that does a good deal of traveling and my best source of information is to talk with someone on a repeater or simplex and ask about the local repeaters. As I find that correct information, I put it into my mapping program so I have it for future trips. I can also re program my radios at night, before hitting the sack.
I use to pass along the updated information to the different database web sites, but found it was not helping to get the information changed. So I stopped sending the correct information to the site owners. As the old saying goes, "you can't fix stupid" and "you can't fix an I don't care attitude".
Good luck on your efforts on getting an updated database that has the usable information you need for your trips.
