Repeaters

The N8XUA 443.450 Repeater Located in Montville, Ohio is our Primary UHF Repeater system. This is a CLOSED repeater system. Use of this system is restricted to OPERATION Team Members and its affliates. District 5 SKYWARN operators are also permitted on the system only when a District 5 SKYWARN net is in progess. 

It is a Wide Area coverage voted system that has receivers strategically located to provide optimum  mobile and portable coverage and it is constantly expanding to improve the coverage down to the handheld level. The  system uses Motorola Mitrek and Maxar 50 Radios and a Spectra TAC Comparator converted to the Amateur service.  The repeater provides  Handheld and Mobile coverage in  the following Ohio Counties: Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Trumbull , Northern Mahoning and  some  Cuyahoga and Portage. It also provides coverage into these Western Pennslyvania Counties:Erie, Crawford, Mercer and Lawerence . It currently has 9 receivers with 4 in the works and the capability to go to 16!  It currently has receivers in the areas of Albion, PA, Greenville, PA, Montville, Oh, Youngstown, Oh, Newbury, Oh, Thompson, Oh, Wayne Twp, Oh, Willoughby,OH and Kingsville, Oh. The future recievers are going in Andover Oh,Howland Oh, Meadville, PA  and Mantua, Oh.  The repeater and all its receivers have emergency batteries and/or emergency power with a minimum up time of 30 hours.(This is if the system was keyed continuously for 30 hours.)

The W8CYS 442.000 Portable repeater is our interoperability answer. It consists of a self contained UHF repeater with VHF remote base with Autopatch. The repeater can run on either 110V or 12V and can be setup in less than 10 minutes! The case carries all equipment with the exception of the tripod, antenna and any batteries that would be used. The antenna system is a dual band gain antenna to accomidate the repeater and remote base!

N8XUA Repeater 443.650 is now up and operational in Kingsville OH. This repeater is an OPEN repeater, however EMCOMM and SKYWARN operations will take priority over normal operation. This repeater currently is using our temporary Motorola GR300 Repeater. It has a DB420 antenna on the East side of the tower. This repeater only has an output of 6W, but does put this repeater back on the map in a big way. It has emergency power and provides the team with good local coverage repeater for NE Ashtabula County an NW Erie County.

The 145.33 N8XUA is now on air. It is an OPEN repeater, howerver EMCOMM and SKYWARN Operations will take priority over normal operation. It is co-located with the 443.450 Repeater. It is a Motorola MSR2000 base station with a DB222 Antenna. It is setup for its best coverage in Ashtabula County. This is also the Ashtabula County SKYWARN Repeater. It has emergency power.