[OZAPRS] East Coast Coverage.

[Gary Stern]

Gee Howard,
I thought the 2m repeater had to find a new home being kicked out of 
Yarrabah....

I know how quiet it is up there, I ran the irlp node for a number of 
years after Geoff. (I actually lived in Cairns '92 thru '06).

Gary



On 18/03/2011 7:31 PM, Howard Small wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> There are APRS digis in Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns. When you get
> up here (Cairns) put out a call on the voice repeater, too - 146.950MHz.
>
> We are making some changes on the digi next week but it should be up and
> running OK when you get here.
>
> By the way, there are not that many active amateurs here so if you put
> out a call on the repeater (VK4RCA) and don't get a response it is not
> that we don't love you! Try a few times over a couple of days and one of
> us will be awake :)
>
> 73
>
> Howard
> VK4BS
>
> On 18/03/2011 5:45 PM, Gary Stern wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am currently traveling up the coast from Sydney to Cairns.
>>
>> Interesting to note the coverage & holes in such.
>>
>> Just using a Kenwood D72 into a collinear on the bull bar.
>>
>> Gary
>> vk2zbb-7
>>
>>
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