[Updated 2/9/2015]
I’ve written a few posts on this blog about which repeaters I frequent in the DFW area, and which ones I am monitoring. This post will be an update to some of that information.
Lately, I spend most of my time on DMR. I am constantly talking to other Hams on the DFW Local (TG2) or Texas Statewide (TG3148) talkgroups. But I have 3 other radios in the truck at this time, besides my DMR radio. I recently installed an Icom IC7000 and I am using that rig on VHF/UHF right now. I have a High Sierra screwdriver antenna that I am going to install for Mobile HF work. Also I am running a Wouxun KG-UV920P with 2M/220, but only using it for 220MHz right now. The last radio is a Kenwood TK-981 for 900MHz, but I actually don’t have it hooked up to anything right now – no power or antenna.
I recently re-programmed my VHF/UHF radio to include about 15 or 16 local repeaters, then I used slots 20-30 for the NCTC repeaters throughout Texas, and input all of those. Listed below are the repeaters that I have in the top 15 channels of my radio, which are constantly scanning (unless I am talking on one).
Channel | Frequency | Offset | CTCSS | Location |
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1 | 145.400 | -0.6 | 110.9 | Grapevine |
2 | 147.100 | +0.6 | 110.9 | Hurst |
3 | 147.140 | +0.6 | 110.9 | Arlington |
4 | 145.330 | -0.6 | 110.9 | Haltom City (going to remove this one because of all the traffic) |
5 | 146.700 | -0.6 | 110.9 | Dallas FLAME THROWER |
6 | 444.850 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Flower Mound |
7 | 442.900 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Euless |
8 | 441.900 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Colleyville |
9 | 443.875 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Grapevine |
10 | 442.825 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Bedford |
11 | 444.650 | +5.0 | 186.2 | Dallas (linked to the main 900MHz machine in Dallas) |
12 | 444.050 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Denton |
13 | 443.075 | +5.0 | NONE | Arlington |
14 | 443.975 | +5.0 | 156.7 | Cedar Hill |
15 | 442.175 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Grapevine |
16 | 443.775 | +5.0 | 110.9 | Mansfield |
Repeaters around Bowie, TX (used while at the hunting lease)
Channel | Frequency | Offset | CTCSS | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 444.400 | +5.0 | 156.7 | Decatur |
2 | 145.390 | -0.6 | 192.8 | Bowie |
3 | 145.320 | +0.6 | 192.8 | Bowie |
4 | 147.360 | +0.6 | 123.0 | Nocona |