Sunset Empire Amateur Radio Club

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Important Announcements

Important Announcements

W7BU’s second repeater is the ’76, operating on a frequency of 146.760 MHz, with an offset of -.600 MHz, and a PL tone of 118.8. It is located on Nicolai Mountain, approximately 3,000 feet above the Columbia River, approximately 20 miles east of Astoria. This repeater has wide coverage, and can be heard, if not always hit, from as far north as Olympia & Gig Harbor, Washington and as far south as Eugene, Oregon, and as far east as Mt. Hood, Oregon. The '76, in operation at its present site since 1961, is the longest operating repeater in the State of Oregon owned by the same organization, in the same location, with the same frequency.

Frank [NM7R], Jay [W7FBM], & Doug [KC7NFM] working on repair and moving the 146.760 repeater onto the existing Forest Service tower. Pictures by Ken [WA7PIX], who was working on the N7BAG repeater at the same site. N7BAG has subsequently been sold to NM7R and is now part of the BeachNet System. Click here for more pictures of that trip.