Hi everyone,
Hi everyone, I’ve gotten a couple comments recently about the club’s two meter repeater. Apparently it is again not in the ARRL Repeater directory. I did some reading the other night, & this is what I found.
First of all, the info in the ARRL Repeater directory no longer comes from the lists of coordinated repeaters provided by the state repeater councils. In my surfing, I found this on the website of the Ohio Amateur Repeater Council (https://oarc.com/arrl_dir.html):
“Notice Regarding the ARRL Repeater Directory
The Ohio Area Repeater Council received notice from the ARRL that they were terminating the current ARRL Repeater Directory License Agreement between the ARRL and the Ohio Repeater Council (and every other state) effectine September 30th, 2016.
We were very disappointed in the RFinder Repeater Directory that was published in 2017. It contained incorrect, out of date and unverifed information scraped from the internet. Only 12 of the 50 United States contributed data to RFinder, Ohio was one of the 12. We have received many complaints about the data presented. Rfinder wants more information than the ARRL, including where repeaters are located. That data that has always been protected.
Ohio has not provided any futher updates. Repeater Trustees are welcome to contact RFinder Directly if like.”
So, in looking at the ARRL website, they confirm that any discrepancies should be taken up with the good folks at RFinder.com. Unfortunately, RFinder.com forwards to androiddmr.com, which is a sales site. I’ll keep my eyes open on this. There has to be a way to straighten this out. If you have an answer, please reach out to me.
And by the way, both of the club repeaters are coordinated. I just mailed out our Repeater council dues the other night, and confirmed that our information is up to date.
I’d like to thank everyone who notified me about this. Personally, I have not bought a ARRL Repeater directory in years, and with what I’ve read, will never do so.
Repeater info is available online, and apparently is more accurate. To look up the latest information I invite you to go to www.repeaterbook.com. I have a login for that and check into that periodically to ensure everything’s correct.