Last Updated 2/29/08
The St. Clair County A.R.E.S Officer is Eugene Kramer (WA9TZL). The A.R.E.S. Net is held on Tuesday evenings starting at 7:00pm, on the 147.120 machine.
Our Club net follows the Tuesday night A.R.E.S. Net.
The club maintains 4 open repeaters operating on 147.120+ (linked with 442.275+) / 224.120- / 444.625+ with 127.3 pl.
The repeaters are located on turkey hill located just outside of Belleville, IL. The facilities for the repeaters are furnished to us by SAVE . They provide us a location for the repeaters, and a building to house our equipment.
A new repeater is located on top of Kenneth Hall Memorial Hospital in East Saint Louis and is tied to the 2 Meter machine at Turkey Hill. The new repeater is operating on 442.275+ with a 127.3 pl and is permanently linked to 147.120 in Belleville.
I would like to extend a special thanks to Tom W9TJ and the other club members for keeping these repeaters up and running. Tom has done and excellent job, upgrading and maintaining our repeater systems. Thanks Tom, and all the other club members that have helped keep our repeaters up and running!
These two cabinets contain the three K9GXU repeaters.
For the technical crew, here is the backside of the cabinet.
This cabinet holds the Power Supply for the 70cm Repeater,
the batteries (See next picture) and the Charger.
These are two deep cycle marine batteries with a low voltage cutout
circuit that is designed to keep the 2m transmitter powered
for up to 24 hours of transmit time.