August 1st training was on what to when the repeater goes down. Below were some notes related to that discussion.
Why do we have repeaters?
- Increase Range
- Save power by lowering TX output
- Get over the mountain
What do we do when a repeater is down?
- Use the transmit frequency of the repeater.
- 147.600 Mhz
- Range is limited
- Relay’s will be necessary
How can you be better prepared?
- Have a external antenna
- Roll Up J-Pole
- Mag Mount
- Roof Antenna
- Have a radio with higher output
- Handhelds are about 5 watts
- Mobiles average about 50 watts
- Be prepared to relay a message
- Know how to relay
- Paper
- Pencil
- Headphones
- Map
- Now how to operate your radio
- Be able to take off the offset
- Have a secondary frequency
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