From n9gtm at comcast.net  Thu Dec  7 09:17:32 2017
From: n9gtm at comcast.net (Jim Morrison)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 08:17:32 -0600
Subject: [ILHam] Announce: VARA 2m & 70cm repeater changes
Message-ID: <5eba7360-fbea-e515-53e0-b7ad3789d39c@comcast.net>

The Valley Amateur Repeater Association, VARA, is pleased to announce
the following changes to our facilities.

After many decades of service the 146.790 MHz repeater antenna was
changed to something more in line with our traditional service.  Give
it a try, reports have been good.  Drop by our regular Monday night net
at 8pm local time if you get a chance, we'll be happy to hear from you.

In other VARA news, the dual mode analog/Yaesu FUSION 70cm repeater
operating on 444.950 MHz was replaced with a dual mode analog and
APCO/P-25 mode repeater on the same frequency.  The FUSION mode
received essentially no use, so we switched to APCO/P-25.

The 444.975 MHz CC-1 DMR repeater remains unchanged and is on the
Chicagoland C-Bridge network.  For more information on the Chicagoland
DMR network see http://chicagoland-cc.org

The club invites you to check out the repeaters.  For club and repeater
details:  http://qsl.net/vara/

73, Jim n9gtm