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 >