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LARC UHF Repeater Build

Jun 2, 2026 9 min read Projects Repeater Joseph Fox

A long time coming

Our story starts in the beginning of November 2025. This write-up ended up being a little longer than I originally expected, but getting the club’s UHF repeater back on the air was not a quick one-evening job. It took troubleshooting, planning, parts from a few different places, and a good bit of teamwork. In the end, though, it was well worth it. The new LARC UHF repeater is on the air at 443.850+ MHz with a 107.2 Hz PL tone.

Testing 1, 2, 3…

It was dead. Our Yaesu DR-1X dual band VHF/UHF repeater was no longer repeating. A member of our repeater committee, Scott (KB2TRQ) had been on the repeater earlier in the week, so we knew that it had just happened recently.

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