Ham Radio Challenge Week 17 - find your closest repeater.

Closest is a semi-private low power AllStarLink node on UHF a few blocks away, two VHF repeaters (#W8RP and #W8UM) with active nets, and the odd UHF to 10 meter band repeater also #W8UM .

Line of sight if you are up high enough are a UHF and a VHF repeater on a county tower, the VHF (#N8DUY) can be heard in a 10-county area plus parts of Canada.

A good guide is from #W8SRC

https://www.kb6nu.com/the-kd8lwr-repeater-guide/

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Morning roundtable on #N8DUY .

I took the bus westbound (well, with a bit of a detour northbound since that is what the bus routes go when you miss the direct connection). Took two rounds of the net from the Roadhouse, excellent signal report on my HT.

The challenge of the day is to get to Dexter MI on the bus ("Washtenaw Wave") and operate from there. I think I can hit #N8DUY #W8SRC and maybe #WD8IEL from there, but I'll just have to check. (except W8SRC is UHF and my #TH22AT is VHF only)

Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor MI area) holds a weekly Amateur Radio Public Service Corps net at 830p ET Sunday on the 145.15- #N8DUY (#Skywarn) repeater.

Once a month after the regular net there's a simplex net on a clear frequency - this month we used 146.44.

Net was a success - #W8SRC net control could hear nearly everyone from the #W8UM station. I was pedestrian mobile in a park about 2 mi from #W8UM using a 4W Kenwood TH-22AT and was still copyable by many!