The Austin Amateur Radio Club has announced that the 146.940 repeater will require a 107.2hz CTCSS (PL) tone to engage the repeater beginning April 1, 2010.
The AARC repeater is currently the last 146.940 carrier squelch repeater in Texas.
This is NOT an April Fools Day Joke, thus the reason for advance announcements far and wide. You can program your radio now for using the 107.2 tone, because it will still work fine between now and then.
The repeater will also transmit a 107.2hz CTCSS (PL) tone for users wishing to use the tone squelch feature in their radios which allows them to hear only the Austin repeater.
This change has been long in coming, and in addition to a new controller, are the final steps in an upgrade of the repeater system that includes a new Midland Basetech III repeater capable of analog and P-25 digital communications.
For additional information about AARC please see our website www.austinhams.org .
Please pass this along.
Don Dudley – AC5YK
Travis County EC
www.tcares.org
