Kansas City Wide

After a long absence, the repeater at the KU Medical Center campus near 39th and Rainbow Blvd (442.325) is back in the KCWide room. Thanks to Travis Marshall for all his help.

This repeater had been linked to Wires-X via an FTM-100 and computer located near the repeater in the hospital. Because of COVID, access to the equipment in the hospital became impossible. As most computers do, the on-site computer eventually required attention, and we found out that the KU Medical IT department had tightened their internet security and our remote control software no longer worked.

Travis (NIØY) was able to retrieve the linking equipment from the hospital and install it at his home, restoring the link.

Take a look at the Repeater List page! We’re working on adding coverage maps for repeaters in the Kansas City Wide room. Just click on the MAP link to see an estimate of useful range of a repeater.

The Lee’s Summit-East repeater is back on the air. You can find it on its new, permanent frequency: 442.825.

The Odessa repeater is back thanks to KCØKW and KØLBR. We’ve received the final approved frequency and retuned the duplexer and repeater. A firmware update for the Yaesu DR2-X was also installed.

Look for Odessa on 443.650.

The KU Med repeater is repeating and no longer buzzing, but its connection to Kansas City Wide room is intermittent.

We’re looking for a linking site outside the Med Center complex. It is currently very difficult to get access to the repeater and link.

A new UHF Fusion repeater has been added to the Kansas City Wide room and is currently in testing mode. It’s located on North Oak near 40th St. It won’t have much coverage to the north but provides some fill-in coverage in North Kansas City and the north side of Downtown.

Find it on 442.900 during the test phase. The frequency may change at some point in the future.