There’s a new GMRS repeater in town. Mark K7EAB/WRME445 and Mike N7ONP/WRME441 are co-owners of a Retevis RT97L portable deployable repeater, which they have nicknamed Yaquina 575. For the immediate future it is installed at Mark’s abode with an Ed Fong antenna on a tripod.
The nominal output is 25 watts, with the actual output of about 20 watts. Output frequency is 142.575 MHz with a tone of 136.5. Depending on how your transceiver labels channels, it might be Repeater 16 or Channel 24.
We aren’t advertising the repeater beyond the local area but do invite local GMRS users to test it out. We’re interested in seeing what the practical footprint looks like.