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 some exceptions to these rules on some repeaters, but these are the standards)

If you have a transceiver and wish to transmit to a repeater, you must program your transceiver to the proper input frequency of the repeater (offset) along with the PL Tone (if any) for the repeater to respond to your transmission. Any frequency shown without either a + or - listed are simplex (radio-to-radio) instead of repeater based. There are SOME exceptions in the ham radio world such as an EchoLink or IRLP only repeater, however we currently have not been made aware of any in this area. If the transmit and receive frequencies are the same, it's a simplex repeater. The tones would still apply, if any.

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".

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