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 Repeater
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 K5MAP, Mike Pate. This repeater is located on the same tower as our 444.375 repeater in Northwest Houston and connected to Allstar node # 59847.
Allstar Network
NARS has a 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.
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 on UHF Repeater 443.750/448.750 Color Code 9, Time Slot 2.
- 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.