our newest member, Karl.

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I'd like to welcome Karl to the group. He's a personal friend and the owner of the SRG repeater. (Don't call him a ham, he prefers amateur radio operator) 
Anyway, the SRG repeater covers eastern Washington from the cascade crest to the Montana state line as well as southern British Columbia. It's an amazing system. No irlp or echolink so you can't get in if you're out of the area.
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Welcome aboard Karl!

Terry
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Welcome, Karl!

de KB5JDT
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Welcome. I don’t have a HAM license, but I should work on getting one. My wife’s family is in BC- maybe we could reach them
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(5 hours ago)srjdsmith Wrote: Welcome. I don’t have a HAM license, but I should work on getting one. My wife’s family is in BC- maybe we could reach them
They'd have to be licensed and signed up with the SRG system. The coverage in bc is from about osoyoos to north Idaho. The reason for signing up is the tones required for access aren't public, to help keep the trouble makers out. Signing up is free but donations are gladly accepted and encouraged, there's quite a bit of expense involved in tower space and maintenance.
Even when you get licensed, you wouldn't be able to use the repeater since thers no Internet  access such as echolink, irlp, etc. so you have to be in the coverage area. 2 meters is line of sight with the exception of tropospheric ducting and that's not common or normally really long distance. The furthest tropo I've experienced was about 700 miles into Marin county California.
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Hi folks thanks for the welcome. In the event there's some discussion on the AR-15 I'll check them out. On the amateur radio subject, Tom is correct. If you want to know more (or email me) please visit the web site. https://www.srgclub.org
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(10 hours ago)tommag Wrote: I'd like to welcome Karl to the group. He's a personal friend and the owner of the SRG repeater. (Don't call him a ham, he prefers amateur radio operator) 
Anyway, the SRG repeater covers eastern Washington from the cascade crest to the Montana state line as well as southern British Columbia. It's an amazing system. No irlp or echolink so you can't get in if you're out of the area.


Sounds like Greek to me 🤪🤪
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(4 hours ago)Karl Wrote: Hi folks thanks for the welcome. In the event there's some discussion on the AR-15 I'll check them out.  On the amateur radio subject, Tom is correct. If you want to know more (or email me) please visit the web site.  https://www.srgclub.org
Good to see you here, Karl.
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(4 hours ago)Rampy Wrote:
(10 hours ago)tommag Wrote: I'd like to welcome Karl to the group. He's a personal friend and the owner of the SRG repeater. (Don't call him a ham, he prefers amateur radio operator) 
Anyway, the SRG repeater covers eastern Washington from the cascade crest to the Montana state line as well as southern British Columbia. It's an amazing system. No irlp or echolink so you can't get in if you're out of the area.


Sounds like Greek to me 🤪🤪
It's actually a mixture of Greek, Tagalog and Ethiopian g'iz.
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Down in this part of the world (NE Texas) we have a club called Radio Amateurs of Cass County, and we run the Freedom Link system of repeaters that covers NE Texas, NW Louisiana, SW Arkansas and SE Oklahoma.
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