EGARA's UHF repeater on 444.850 now uses PL tone 123.0 to both transmit and receive on the machine. This is known as CTCSS - which stand for Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System. The Receive Tone opens the squelch and allows a transmission to be received on your HT or mobile transceiver . If it does not it "hear" the 123.0 tone, your radio will normally stay silent. If you do not add the receive tone, your radio should still hear the repeater, but it will also receive and

EGARA has now added a UHF repeater on 444.850 mHz to its site on the old analog tower of WTEN in the Helderberg Mountains. The repeater is powered by a Yaesu DR-2X it joins the existing 147.270 VHF repeater that was previously installed at the site. In addition, EGARA also has a repeater on 224.800 (PL 94.8) which is installed at the HVCC campus in Troy. EGARA owes a huge thank you to Bob Isby of Algonquin Communications, who installed the antenna and the repeater equipmen

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