Website Content and Navigation Updates

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Attention: Over the next few weeks, you will notice we are making some content updates to the website.  You will also see some website navigation is changing as we organize information differently to serve those visiting us for the first time, as well as accommodating our long-time members who rely on the website for updated information.

"We must say farewell to our Webmaster, Bill Buoy N5BIA. He has decided to call it quits after being the webmaster since August 2005. That’s a long time in any job!", said NARS President, Paul Owen "He has been the keeper of the W5NC website and our move to groups.io in June 2022. Let’s all say a big thank you for all the work he has done over the many years".

 

Repeater Status

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Repeaters

NARS has three coordinated repeater frequencies with the club callsign W5NC:

• VHF - 146.660/146.060 | PL 100.0 Hz | Tomball, TX
• UHF - 444.375/449.375 | PL 100.0 Hz | Klein, TX
• UHF - 443.075/448.075 | PL 103.5 Hz | Houston, TX (back on the air soon)

The 146.660 VHF repeater was removed from its downtown Houston location and moved to a tower near State Highway 249 near Spring Cypress Road at about 270 feet in Northwest Houston.

The 444.375 UHF repeater is located on a tower near Spring Cypress Road and TC Jester Road at about 250 feet.

The 443.075 UHF repeater is being relocated to the downtown Houston location on a building near San Jacinto Street and McKinney Street at about 700 feet. 

DMR Repeaters

We have a member-owned UHF DMR repeater on 440.300/445.300 Color Code 3, Time Slot 1 and is attached to the NARS Brandmeister Talkgroup 3146211. The trustee is NARS member Mike Pate, K5MAP.  This repeater is located on the same tower as our 444.375 repeater in Northwest Houston and connected to Allstar node # 59847.

Bill Cordiel K5VOM has been gracious to have the NARS Brandmeister Talkgroup 3146211 on his UHF repeater 443.750/448.750 Color Code 9, Time Slot 2 located in Richmond, TX with incredible coverage throughout the Gulf Coast area.

Allstar Network

NARS has an ASL3 cloud hosted Allstar hub # 59847 and the VHF repeater 146.660 and the UHF repeater 444.375 are connected to the Allstar Hub 24/7/365 via ASL3 Allstar nodes attached to the repeaters.

Brandmeister Network.

Brandmeister Talkgroup 3146211 is attached to the Allstar Hub # 59847.  This Talkgroup is accessible three ways:

• the K5MAP DMR Repeater located in Klein, TX
• the K5VOM DMR Repeater located in Richmond, TX
• You can also access the NARS Allstar network using your Hotspot connected to the Brandmeister Network on Talkgroup 3146211.

Echolink

NARS has an EchoLink node # 380664 at W5NC-R which is also attached to Allstar node #59847.