[CTSARA] Interstate repeaters

[Tony K1OC]

This website http://k5ehx.net/ will let you use Google Maps routing to find repeaters along your route. Click on Menu, then the icon that looks like a highway, then enter your starting point and destination in the box that pops up. You can download the list in a variety of formats. If you can't find the right one for your programming software, try the K5EHX "proprietary" format, which is just a CSV file with all the database fields in it.  Use your spreadsheet program of choice to edit the file to select the right fields and put them in the right order to import into your programming software (assuming it can import CSV files). Don't change the order of the entries, they will be in order from your starting point to destination. 

I use the same file to create a list of "Points of Interest" to load into my Garmin GPS so I can see which repeaters are nearby as I cruise down the highway. (I actually put the channel numbers into the file I import into the radio and use to generate the POI file, so the GPS tells me what channel to use for each repeater.)   

Vry 73,
Tony
K1OC

> On Aug 4, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Dr. Jonathan Shapiro <jon at giciman.com> wrote:
> 
> I am taking a road trip to the Eclipse in Nashville with my cousin, wife,
> and a dog.
> 
> I want to program my FT 7900 for major repeaters along the interstates I
> will be taking. I wired up my Volvo wagon with power poles. Mag roof
> antenna. Hustler MX 270.
> 
> 
> 
> I have the Repeater Directory and programming cables, etc, but how do I know
> which are major repeaters along the roads?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Jonny S.
> 
> AB1HI
> 
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