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Welcome to the WA7ABU repeater website

Please bookmark this page to find the following items:

  • The WA7ABU repeaters
    145.29 MHz FM ~2000 feet - Silver Creek Falls
    145.19 w/100 Hz tone - WA7ABU Repeater Site ~4000' near Gates
    444.950 MHz Yaesu Fusion & FM w/ 100 Hz tone - Silver Falls
    147.06 MHz FM w/ 100 Hz tone - from Lyons / McCully Mountain
    (sometimes linked to 444.600/100 Hz tone)
    444.600 MHz Yaesu Fusion & FM w/ 100 Hz tone - from Lyons / McCully Mountain

  • NETs of the WA7ABU repeaters
    THE real highlight of the repeaters - YOU! (we all love to talk)

  • Help support and maintenance activities - the WA7ABU repeaters.

  • IRLP - Echolink? - Check out the control panel and operating codes for IRLP & echolink.

  • Inexpensive digital SDR experiments - links to some helpful pages on SDR, a pdf page.

  • Check out the MESH networking site for the Willamette Valley and Salem, Oregon - Join to keep in touch with our MESH networking efforts in our Valley. MESH involves high speed file and data exchange over a interconnected group of devices similar to high power WiFi devices. Dedicated Ham frequencies are available.

  • The ORRC coordinates Oregon's Repeaters - the ORRC website.

  • Fix your Yaesu WIRES problem without making permanent changes. Most non-fusion Yaesu radios will transmit tones that cut you out of repeaters for a few seconds. This chart is with permission from a site and helps deal with the problem.

  • Hams must have towers! - some information that affects local hams wishing to install towers; please contribute local information sources.

  • A simple 2 element Quad - here is a great quad for use in bunny hunts or to just improve your HT performance.

  • Oregon Cell Phone Law - HB2597 - Hams that use Radio from the car might wish to print this page to avoid conflicts with local enforcement officers who are not informed of the right to use a radio while in motion. See page 4 line 32 and 33 for the Ham Radio reference.

    For Washington:5289-S.pdf

  • Digital Links - these links are to help local hams to find freeware software to use with digital soundcard modes.

  • Listen to the 145.29 Salem/Willamette Valley repeater here and on many scanner radio apps for the phone.

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    • 3/20/2025
    This page is kept current by WA7ABU
    Nets and events of the WA7ABU Repeaters are copywrighted by WA7ABU 1996 - 2025