Visiting "Down East" ? You have lots of options

[KD3Y]

Welcome to North Carolina. 
If you are ever visiting "down east" as the locals call it, you will have access to the 2-meter/70-cm linked repeater
system. Our club also has a 6-meter repeater and a digital repeater on the same tower.


 

 

Our club-owned repeater for Carteret County is located on the 360-foot tower beside WalMart in
Morehead City and is open to the public with the following settings.


I get several contacts every summer from tourists who are visiting the Crystal Coast.
Last year it was a tourist who was visiting from Raleigh and was on an upper floor of his hotel with his HT
trying to see whom he could contact.  Another time there was a Navy pilot from Princeton who was underway.
He sent me a cool Navy Aviation QSL card!

If GMRS is your thing, the Newport GMRS repeater is located on the tower in Newport and has a 40+ mile coverage area.


Our W4YMI digital repeater is on the air  at 444.975 MHz (+), color code 1.
The area 2-meter analog repeater (K4GRW) operates on 145.450 MHz with an offset of - 0.6, tone 100.
The  area 70-centimeter analog repeater (W3ENK) operates on 444.825 MHz with an offset of +5, tone 88.5.
The area 6-meter repeater (KF4IXW) operates on 53.090 MHz with an offset of -1, tone 162.2.

 

 

73 de Anthony, KD3Y
VP, Carteret County Amateur Radio Society

Edited February 3, 2023 by KD3Y

[K3MRI]

Impressive array of repeaters. Love the first map with overlays. Quick question, how realistic, or close to realistic, are the sizes of the circles? Are those just arbitrary for illustration purposes or are they actual likely reach?

I think it's time we do one like this for the Capital region.

[KD3Y]

As you know, it's going to vary according to conditions and individual equipment used.  But mostly the "coverage circles" are close.  The circles aren't to any scale, but the Downeast linked repeater system does form a chain.   All of the repeaters are on towers so coverage is quite good in a flat coastal area with no mentionable obstructions.  The K4GRW repeater is on a 360 foot tower.  The W3ENK repeater is on a 500 foot tower.  The repeaters on Hatteras Island are on a 170 foot tower.   The Coastal Linked system is here:  https://k4obx.org/nets

More information, and probably more accurate information than my artwork, can be found here https://www.qsl.net/n4aay/repeater.html  and here as well:   https://carolina440.net

 

[K3MRI]

17 minutes ago, KD3Y said:

As you know, it's going to vary according to conditions and individual equipment used.  But mostly the "coverage circles" are close.  The circles aren't to any scale, but the Downeast linked repeater system does form a chain.   All of the repeaters are on towers so coverage is quite good in a flat coastal area with no mentionable obstructions.  The K4GRW repeater is on a 360 foot tower.  The W3ENK repeater is on a 500 foot tower.  The repeaters on Hatteras Island are on a 170 foot tower.   The Coastal Linked system is here:  https://k4obx.org/nets

More information, and probably more accurate information than my artwork, can be found here https://www.qsl.net/n4aay/repeater.html  and here as well:   https://carolina440.net

 

Great resources. Thank you!