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Artum_Snowbird's avatar
Mar 07, 2016

Two Meter Ham Radios

Does anybody use 2 meters and repeaters to help find good local campgrounds?

I am hoping announcing my Call Sign and being from out of the country might prompt some replies while camping around Oregon.

Thanks, VA7MDD Mike
  • Artum Snowbird wrote:
    Yes, I do know about that site. Is there ways to limit the responses to only select popular or not private repeaters?


    Mike, I know of no repeater listing that lists by "popularity" ... there is no real way to acquire that data. Many repeater listings do list "private" repeaters, but on 2M I believe those are becoming fewer and fewer. While in Oregon I would not worry about that issue.
  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    Mike - Not really... Some of us are not RV TRAVELERS... I mostly go to the same places all of the time looking for good old fashion camping sites... My love is setup in the high country way back off a Forest Service Road somewhere and stay there for a week or so living off my batteries.

    Don't have the desire anymore to just travel from one point to another point just to say I have been there before...

    I have my favorite off-road camping locations which are here in Virginia up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway and in the high country of VA-NC-TN-SC-GA-AL... Also like to visit the gulf states and along the beaches up and down the East Coast. This season I am hoping to do some looking aorund the NC high country camp sites and get to know that area alot better camping OFF-ROAD better.

    Much of Ham radio ops is 75/40 meters... I like to use my LILTARHEEL screwdriver mobile antenna and when setup I have easy up 15-20 foot high PVC pole that I can hang a 80M-10M off-center antenna. Of course my main two bands for ops is 75M and 40M when camping off-road... I like to use the 2M/440 for the repeaters around the Virginia high country. Mostly in monitor mode on 2M/440 and scanning local areas public service and rescue squad freqs for WX related things...

    Welcome aboard

    Roy K9PHT
    King George VA...
  • I would use the Rv park reviews or allstays app.
  • Yes, I do know about that site. Is there ways to limit the responses to only select popular or not private repeaters?
  • ...yea that will work. You probably know about this site https://www.repeaterbook.com/index.php?state_id=none to find local repeaters.