Pocatello Amateur Radio Club Repeater help and history page.                                        

PARC owns and operates two 2 meter FM voice repeaters, 
Kinport and Scout Mt. As well as an APRS digipeater.  Read down the page for the 147.36  further down the page for  442.1mhz remote base / repeater

PARC   147.060mHz Scout Mt.   +600kHz Offset, 100Hz PL .   
for more pictures 2008 work party  or  install 2002

Located 14 miles south of the intersection of I-15 and E. Center street,  Exit  (69)
It is open to all users,  It is solar powered.  It has NO  function other than a basic voice repeater.
PARC Pays the US Forest Service over $120 a year to rent the mountain top location, your dues are important in keeping this radio on the air 

It is a GE Master Executive II  , installed 2002	K9GP, AC7LI, KØIP

Homebrewed  Talking controller, QST  project    Feb 1997 issue (?)                  Cavities and charge controller inside shelter.

Solar array for charging the batteries,   There is NO commercial power on Scout Mt.

  
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147.360mHz N7PI /R repeater - Kinport           (parc home page Link)

                                                                                                                                                         

Mt. Kinport  located 6 miles SW of the I-15 Center Street Exit (69) at 7200 feet.
It operates on 147.360 +600kHz offset  ... 100Hz Pl required

ITS a standard repeater unless the link is turned on, 

This repeater has a 10 meter FM Link on 29.600mhz

29.600mHz is 10 meters.. This is the FM Calling frequencies.
10 meters does have world wide propagation (at times),  so if your setting around, with nothing to do turn the link on and see if anything is bouncing off the ionosphere .  

Call CQ     ie   CQ CQ CQ  this is  (your call)  over.    remember your signal might be heard around the world.
try to give your call SLOW and concise enough to be understood,  the propagation MIGHT be perfect.  But usually there is a large amount of fading , so keep your transmissions short and clear.  

Stations is Japan  have NO idea where Pocatello is,  !!!!    but probably have some idea where Idaho is,    if you lose a station because of fading ,  I suggest you wait maybe 15 seconds and call that station , using
his call letters and your call letters and ask if he copies now,

How to tell which band a signal is on
if  the link is on
a station on 10 meters will cause a Hi & Low Beep,  "like" a  BEEP BOOP sound.. ,  at the end of 10 meter transmissions 
a 2 meter station will cause a beep beep sound  at the end of a transmission (same tone, twice) ,  Which also indicates the 3 minute time-out  timer has been reset.

 

    When a Link is on, any and all traffic occurring on 2 meters is transmitted on 10 meters as well as two meters
    if someone out there in "radio land"  hears you, you'll probably have breaking station wanting to take advantage of the propagation.   
     likewise, any traffic on 10 meters is repeated to 2 meters.

   The 10 meter link equipment is a  GE Master Executive II mobile radio, running  around 60 Watts, to a Dipole antenna, 
 

Codes   010 turns 10 meters  ON,
            000 turns OFF 10m

other test codes   123  tests your audio.   
Press 123, un-key your radio, repeater says "ready", Key your radio and make a test transmission, when you unkey it will be play back.
 

ONCE turned ON, it will stay ON, until its turned off,

442.100 mHz.  repeater / remote base.  - Kinport ,  same location as the 147.36 repeater

This was a gift from K7NEY (sk) to  PARC..                   it uses  Kenwood commercial  radios,    (first generation)
the  442 radio is a model TKR-850   this is linked to a Kenwood TKR-750 VHF radio, which is 'frequency agile"       WE have NOT finished programming the VHF output  SO
for now its linked to 146.52, the 2 meter simplex national calling frequency.

If you are talking on  447.1 the input to the repeater, it is repeated to  442.1 the repeater output frequency,, AS WELL as to  146.52..   if there is traffic on 156.52  it is heard on  442.1..

 

Coming Soon

another UHF repeater,