Owosso Area Voice Repeater Information

These are the Owosso Area voice repeaters currently in operation:

147.020 Mhz plus offset - Owosso (N8DVH) closed autopatch (100.0 PL tone required)

442.400 MHz plus offset - Owosso (N8DVH) (100.0 PL tone required)

NOTE: On most repeaters with autopatch capability, emergency communications is immediately available by just entering just * 911.

The N8DVH Repeater System Information

Al Langdon, N8DVH, is the owner and is responsible for installation, maintenance, and operation of the network. The N8DVH Repeater System uses a 100 hz (PL) tone on the repeater and is open to any properly licensed amateur radio operator.

A 2 meter unit operating on 147.020 + it uses a Spectrum reciver and transmitter. The power supply is a 35 AMP supply and is packaged with surge protectors. Output power is 50 watts high power, 10 watts low power and 8 watts emergency power. The controller is an S-COM 7K, with autopatch, a digital audio delay module and voice. The duplexer is a TX RX Systems 28-27-02A. The feedline on the system is Andrew's heliax. The antenna is a Celwave Super Station Master. The tower is 90 feet, making it 110 feet to the top of the antenna.

The UHF unit operates on 442.400 + has a Hamtronics R451 FM reciever with a HRA-432 low noise preamplifer and helical resonator input filters. The tranmitter is a Hamtronics TA451 UHF FM with an output iof 2 watts, which feeds the Hamtronics LPA 4-10 UHF power amplifier and a final power amplifier boosting to the final output power of 100 watts. The controller is an S-COM 7K, with autopatch, a digital audio delay module and voice. The duplexer is a TX RX Systems 28-66-02A-2. The feedline on this system is Andrew's heliax. The antennas are Diamond and are mounted at the 80 foot level on the tower.

The N8DVH repeater system is located on the South side of Owosso.

Other amateur repeaters currently in operation in the local area:

145.39 minus offset - Okemos (WB8CQM) - RACES Affiliated

146.78 MHz minus offset - Fenton {KB8AUX ~ FAARA} - w/autopatch

146.94 Mhz minus offset - Lansing (WB8CQM) - w/autopatch, RACES Affiliated

147.10 plus offset - Flint (K8ZIS)- w/autopatch, GC ARES

147.24 MHz plus offset - Saginaw (K8DAC ~ SVARA) - w/autopatch, RACES Affiliated

For finding other Michigan Repeaters check the Michigan Repeaters Council directory site:

Last updated 17 Nov 2007