📻 Local Area Nets

We strive to keep this list accurate and up to date. If you spot any additions, corrections, or changes, please let us know at w9jcarc@gmail.com.

This is one of the most comprehensive net lists in the region, and we want to keep it that way — thanks to your input!

Feel free to use this list as-is on your own website (no credit needed), or simply link directly to this page for live updates.

Note: All frequencies use a standard repeater shift and direction (offset) unless Simplex or Single Sideband (Upper-USB or Lower-LSB Sideband). If you need the transmit and receive frequencies, they're listed in the spreadsheet below.

PL = Private Line Tone / CTCSS = Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System

Or "sub-audible tone." A tone by any other name would sound as sweet (or not quite so sweet, just harder to say :-). All of the names listed refer to the same thing, a transmitted audio tone that is below the frequency response of your radio that allows the repeater to open to your transmission. They will ignore any incorrect tones.

PL Tone frequencies are expressed in Hertz (Hz). We do not currently use the Digital Code Squelch (DCS) system in our area, so we won't cover it here. Want to learn more about it? Click this link for the Wiki.

Standard Repeater Offsets

• 6 Meter  (50 Mhz band):  -500 KHz (-0.5 MHz) or -1,000 KHz (-1.00 MHz)

• 2 Meter band:  600 KHz (0.6 MHz) positive or negative shift as indicated

• 1.25 Meter (220 band):  1.6 MHz negative shift

•  70 Cm (440 band):  5 MHz positive shift

• GMRS Repeaters:  5 MHz positive shift
  (There are exceptions to these rules on some repeaters, but these are the standards)

To transmit to a repeater, your transceiver must be programmed with the correct input frequency (the offset) and the PL tone, if one is required. Without the proper offset and tone, the repeater will not respond to your transmission.

Any frequency listed without a + or – offset is a simplex frequency, meaning radio‑to‑radio communication rather than repeater operation.

There are a few exceptions in the amateur radio world—such as EchoLink‑only or IRLP‑only nodes—but we are not currently aware of any in this area.

If the transmit and receive frequencies are the same, the system is functioning as a simplex repeater. In those cases, any listed tones still apply.

Have a net in our area that you'd like us to list?  Email us at w9jcarc@gmail.com and we'll list it here! Please use the subject,
"Local Area Net".