Accurate Repeater Database

[NorCalLC]

I'm trying to update some repeaters in my 2M and I'm wondering what site or refferences you guys use to look up currently active repeaters? I've been using RepeaterBook.com and for the most part it seems acurate overall. Even they are asking people to verify and help them update repeaters.

I'm sure that things change once in a while so is there a better site I should be using?

 

[Cabrito]

NARCC Northern Amateur Relay Council of California

http://www.narcc.org/
You can search by location, frequency, call sign.

This is all you need for our area.

 

[NorCalLC]

Thanks for the good info and link, I appreciate it.

 

[James86004]

Sort of tangential to this, I wish someone would come out with a handheld which had the entire repeater database pre-loaded into memory, a GPS, and a function which lets you scan only the repeaters within a specified radius of your current position.

 

[1911]

The ARRL repeater directory is good, and updated every year or every other year. You can get it on CD with software that lets you search within a radius of location or route, and export a table with all the frequencies, offsets and tone codes etc. that will drop right into the programming software for your radio.

 

[xtatik]

Sort of tangential to this, I wish someone would come out with a handheld which had the entire repeater database pre-loaded into memory, a GPS, and a function which lets you scan only the repeaters within a specified radius of your current position.

An impossible task when you consider repeater frequency (input and output) coordination around the globe. They change too often.
There has never been a truly accurate repeater directory and it's unlikely we'll ever see one. It's just one of the pitfalls to FM and one of those things you have to stay on top of, double-check and reprogram every couple of years as changes are made.

 

[rusty_tlc]

Sort of tangential to this, I wish someone would come out with a handheld which had the entire repeater database pre-loaded into memory, a GPS, and a function which lets you scan only the repeaters within a specified radius of your current position.

It would probably be doable for a mobile rig. But it would be more of a SDR application with a GPS interface.
Also many repeaters don't list GPS coordinates
The closest thing you might find to this right now would be the smart scan feature found on some Yaesu radios.

All that said I wonder if there might be a smart phone app that could provide this kind of information. It wouldn't be integrated with the radio but WTH it would be a start.

 

[rusty_tlc]

Droid
https://sites.google.com/site/drbobbobswebsite/ham-radio-repeater-app

http://www.m3oyq.com/other-shack-equipment/repeater-range-android-ham-radio-amateur

http://www.appbrain.com/app/qsl-mobile-ham-radio/com.eliteham.qslmob

iPhone
http://www.freqfinder.com/

http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Software/iPhone/

For IRLP
http://www.hamdroid.com/2010/04/09/my-first-app/

 

[crawler#976]

I reall like:

http://k5ehx.net/repeaters/qrepeater.php

It works great for trip planning - you can map repeaters along your route via Google Maps.

 

[rambrush]

Like posted previously it is pretty hard to keep up with fm repeaters.
Went up on Mount Charleston Nevada a month or so back the pl was supposed to be 100 did not work but could hear the identifier so knew the freq was correct. tried all pl's to no avail. Found out they had switched to a digital pl tone.
Mohave County has been in constant change the usual ones are still up but others are to.
Pretty much have to talk to locals to keep up with em. ARRL is almost outdated by the time it is published.

 

[Cabrito]

I reall like:

http://k5ehx.net/repeaters/qrepeater.php

It works great for trip planning - you can map repeaters along your route via Google Maps.

Thanks Mark,
That's a cool one.

 

[NorCalLC]

That's a cool one, thanks crawler#976.