Where have all the GMRS Repeaters gone?

[TNFrank]

There use to be 4 or 5 repeaters that were in the Phoenix area that I could hit, now I only see one, Phoenix 650 as being up and running. What's happened to all the GMRS Repeaters? 

Here's a list off of RepeaterBook. There's only 20 Repeaters and 3 of them are down so that leaves 17 for the entire State of Arizona. 

[wayoverthere]

For your Phoenix batch, are they offline as in tried using them and no luck? Or not showing up in the listings?

  The listings here will drop a repeater to "stale" if it hasn't been updated in awhile (1 year, I believe), and you have to turn on the "show stale repeaters" option in the list/map to see they're still there.

[MarkInTampa]

Try looking at the MyGMRS listings instead of RepeaterBook. AZ shows 59 without stale or offline option enabled in the state and 125 with stale and offline enabled.

 

[TNFrank]

I've tried to hit 725/Shaw Butte which I normally would hit easily but lately I've had no luck with it. 

Even on our list there's only a couple repeaters in the Metro Phoenix area.

[wayoverthere]

2 hours ago, TNFrank said:

I've tried to hit 725/Shaw Butte which I normally would hit easily but lately I've had no luck with it. 

Even on our list there's only a couple repeaters in the Metro Phoenix area.

Pulled up the repeater page for 725SHAWBUTE, and there's a comment there from another user a month or so ago about the repeater being down. Looks like they've had interference issues with a business repeater in the past, and someone causing issues as well, between the comments and the thread below. 

https://forums.mygmrs.com/topic/7946-soooo-rip-shawbute-i-guess/