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]

6 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/

Edit: saw him weigh in on the other thread, so maybe @nokones has some more recent info on status of the local repeaters?

Edited 22 hours ago by wayoverthere
tagging a local user

[nokones]

Shaw Butte is still on the air, at least it is IDing. Either the Station is not repeating or the input tone has changed. The input tone Towers 600 has also changed. Towers 575 appears to be back on the air for now.

[TNFrank]

Shaw was 100.0 TX only. Is it different now?

[nokones]

6 hours ago, TNFrank said:

Shaw was 100.0 TX only. Is it different now?

At this time, it is unknown if the Repeat function is disabled or if there was an input tone change. We just need to exercise patience to see what the repeater owner is going to do.

[TNFrank]

Another good reason to get a HAM license.  We're covered up in 2M and 70cm repeaters in my area and there's quite a few 1.25M repeaters as well.