Well, congratulations, Bob, on what seems to be a nicely-functioning 
10-meter repeater in your part of Iowa.

I guess that, in order for me to work the repeater from here in Central 
lower Michigan, we'd have to have some pretty consistent short Sporatic E 
skip, but stranger things have happened.

On a related note, do you know where I might be able to get a readable list 
of known 10-meter repeaters?

It just seems as though it might be fun to play around sometime and see what 
I could work, although the idea of 10-meter simplex on 29.6 is also equally 
appealing.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: 10 and 15 meters


>I have a fair amount of experience with ten meter fm repeaters.  I am
> involved in the repeater project here in central Iowa and we have gone 
> from
> taking the cast off equipment from a club that couldn't get an older
> repeater to work to a repeater system that is getting better all of the
> time.  We were at first using the local club's call, W0AK,  and operating 
> on
> 29.620 with an input frequency of 29.520.  This is probably the most 
> widely
> used repeater frequency on ten meters.  We were competing with a repeater 
> in
> New York with its antenna on the empire state building running the full
> legal limit of power.  We have now got our own call sign, kd0wpk, move to
> 29.670 input 29.570, with CTCSS of 103.5 HZ.  That is a secondary channel 
> so
> we have I believe no other repeaters on the frequency.  I am currently
> acting as secretary to the ten meter group.
>
> Bob kd0br
>